Fairuza Balk

stars  In 2017, Fragile Rock, an American collective of musicians and puppeteers, had performed a song titled Fairuza Balk when they were invited for an episode of NPR‘s (National Public Radio) Tiny Desk Concert, a video series of live concerts hosted by NPR Music.

stars  She has voiced the characters of Mercedes Cortez in the action-adventure video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) and Lady T’Lak in the 3D fantasy real-time strategy video game Lords of EverQuest (2003).

stars  Her parents had parted ways soon after her birth and she was raised by her mother thereafter. She had lived, with her mother, in Cloverdale, California, until she was 2 years old. They had then relocated to Vancouver in Canada, where she had learned how to act by the time she had turned 6. They had later lived for a while in London and Paris as well, before returning to Vancouver.

stars  Her father had named Fairuza due to the color of her eyes at the time of her birth. Fairuza means ‘turquoise’ in Persian. The word also means ‘victory’ or ‘precious one’ in Persian and Arabic. Her father had lived in Turkey, for about 5 years in his childhood, and he had learned Greek, Turkish, Iraqi, and Iranian music there.

stars  Ranked #88 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002)