Fairuza Balk
Blue-eyed, dark-haired Fairuza Balk weathered the storms of Oz, gradually breaking free from her fresh-faced little kid persona to plunge into dark and depressing film scenarios that ultimately reveal an optimism at her core. She worked first on TV in NBC's "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" (1983) before beating out 1,200 girls to fill Dorothy's ruby slippers in Walter Murch's feature debut, "Return to Oz" (1985). Refusing to be traumatized by critics comparing her unfavorably to Judy Garland, Balk rebounded for more kid stuff as the well-meaning klutz Mildred Hubble in "The Worst Witch," a 1986 HBO movie based on the popular children's book.
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Fairuza Balk
Filmography
Movies
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62% |
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Trespassers | The Visitor (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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August Falls | Anna Ellison (Character) | - | 2017 |
14% |
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Battle Scars | Rifka (Character) | - | 2015 |
75% |
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Beyond Clueless | Narrator | - | 2014 |
100% |
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
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Dose of Reality | Rose (Character) | - | 2012 |
71% |
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Blood Into Wine | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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The Heart Is a Drum Machine | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
86% |
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Heidi (Character) | $1.7M | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Grindstone Road | Hannah (Character) | - | 2008 |
60% |
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Humboldt County | Bogart (Character) | $81.4K | 2008 |
67% |
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Wild Tigers I Have Known | Logan's mother (Character) | $9.1K | 2006 |
41% |
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Don't Come Knocking | Amber (Character) | $438.7K | 2005 |
50% |
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What Is It? | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2005 |
69% |
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Personal Velocity: Three Portraits | Paula (Character) | $763.2K | 2002 |
3% |
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Deuces Wild | Annie (Character) | $6.0M | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Sol Goode | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Life in the Fast Lane | Mona (Character) | - | 2000 |
91% |
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Almost Famous | Sapphire (Character) | $32.5M | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Red Letters | Gretchen Van Buren (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | There's No Fish Food in Heaven | Mona (Character) | - | 2000 |
34% |
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The Waterboy | Vicki Vallencourt (Character) | $161.5M | 1998 |
84% |
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American History X | Stacey (Character) | $6.7M | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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American Perfekt | Alice Thomas (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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The Maker | Bella Sotto (Character) | - | 1997 |
57% |
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The Craft | Nancy Downs (Character) | $22.7M | 1996 |
23% |
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The Island of Dr. Moreau | Aissa (Character) | $27.7M | 1996 |
37% |
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Lucinda (Character) | $232.2K | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Shadow of a Doubt | Angel Harwell (Character) | - | 1995 |
60% |
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Imaginary Crimes | Sonya Weiler (Character) | $70.7K | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Tollbooth | Doris (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Murder in the Heartland | Caril Ann Fugate (Character) | - | 1993 |
82% |
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Gas Food Lodging | Shade (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Danger of Love | Lisa (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shame | Lizzie Curtis (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deadly Intentions... Again? | Stacey (Character) | - | 1991 |
50% |
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Valmont | Cecile (Character) | $572.9K | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick | Celia Brzjinski (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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The Worst Witch | Mildred Hubble (Character) | - | 1986 |
58% |
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Return to Oz | Dorothy (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Beth Bradley (Character) | - | 1983 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 97% | Paradise City | Lizzie Thomas (Character) | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
72% | 85% | Ray Donovan | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
63% | 80% | Masters of Horror | Stacia (Character) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Family Guy | Connie D'Amico (Guest Voice) | 1999-2000 |