Fairuza Balk Net Worth

Fairuza Balk's Quotes

• I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
• I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
• I got beat up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
• [on her role in Valmont and doing her "first" bedroom scene] It wasn't really hard at all because I had a lot of support, both from the director and from Colin (Firth, who played Valmont). I had a body double, so I didn't show my body at all. So, I really wasn't nervous.
• [on her religious/spiritual beliefs] I use to believe that your born, you live, you die, that's it. But I have witness things that have proven different. There are just too many unexplained things out there, and I know there are things that are bigger than us.

Interesting Facts about Fairuza Balk

1. When she was born, her father took one look at her eyes and exclaimed "Firuze!" which is Farsi for "turquoise".
2. Once appeared as a vampire in a music video by ZZ Top.
3. Born at 3:00am-PDT
4. She once fully owned her own Occult Craft shop in California called Panpipes. In 2001, she sold 50% of the business to a co-owner. Later, she sold her remaining share of the store to the current owners.
5. Has nine tattoos and a nose ring.
6. Has a triangle-shaped tattoo on her shoulder because the soldiers of the Nazi regime branded the symbol on the Romany in concentration camps. This is her way of paying respect to her culture and remembering the suffering her ancestors endured.
7. While her first name is Persian, Fairuza herself is not of Persian descent. Fairuza's paternal grandparents were David Stanley Scaff and Mary Lorraine Cole. Fairuza's maternal grandfather, Frederick Franklin Balk, was of German descent, while Fairuza's maternal grandmother, Lavergne Leone White, had English ancestry.
8. A 2002 Internet poll confirmed that fans' favorite movie she did was The Craft (1996).
9. Parents are Solomon Ben Feldthouse and Cathryn Balk.
10. Enjoys listening to punk rock, plays guitar and plays piano.
11. Loves to read, and her favorite authors are William S. Burroughs, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Carl Jung, Isabel Allende, Mikhail A. Bulgakov, Ernest Hemingway and Honoré de Balzac.
12. Ranked #88 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
13. Owns several cats. Fairuza once had 5 cats named: MoMo, Scout, Oscar, Sweetpea Poteet Tennessee, Mouse.
14. Her natural hair color is light brown, and during the early years of her career she wore it long. She first dyed her hair in the early 90's and had it red in the films Deadly Intentions... Again? (1991) and Gas Food Lodging (1992). When she made the film Shame (1992) her hair was dyed jet black. A year later she cut it short for the film Murder in the Heartland (1993). With the exception of a few movies, her hair has stayed black with varying short hairstyles (ranging from a classic pixie to shoulder length) since.
15. Often takes roles that are difficult or controversial, as opposed to ones that would bring her more money or a higher status.
16. In a March 2001 interview with "Shout" magazine, she stated that out of all her films, Gas Food Lodging (1992) was her favorite. She indicated that "this film is very close to my heart. As a girl, I was very much like my character Shade. I was shy. I was a loner.".
17. In the mid-1990s had relationships with actors Crispin Glover and David Thewlis. Since then she has been guarded about her private life. As of 2021 Balk has never married and remains single.
18. Contrary to popular belief - stemming from her role in The Craft (1996) and onetime ownership of an occult bookstore - Balk has never been a practicing witch. She made this clear in a 2017 interview for "Entertainment Weekly", in which she acknowledged that "People are going to believe what they want to believe".
19. Credits Piper Laurie as her favorite acting mentor/best friend.