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Name
Hilary Swank

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1974-07-30 (52 years old)

Place of Birth
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Biography

Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series Camp Wilder and made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). She then had her breakthrough for starring as Julie Pierce in The Next Karate Kid (1994), the fourth installment of The Karate Kid franchise, and as Carly Reynolds on the eighth season of Beverly Hills, 90210 (1997–1998).

Swank came to international recognition for her performances as Brandon Teena, a transgender man, in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry (1999), and as Maggie Fitzgerald, an aspiring boxer, in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004). Both of her performances earned her critical acclaim, and she earned numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005.

Swank later ventured into producing with the films Amelia (2009), Conviction (2010), You're Not You (2014), and What They Had (2018), all of which she also starred in. Her other notable films include the television film Iron Jawed Angels (2004), and the feature films Freedom Writers (2007), Logan Lucky (2017), The Hunt (2020), and Fatale (2020).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2004 Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald
1999 Boys Don't Cry as Brandon Teena
2002 Insomnia as Ellie Burr
2000 The Gift as Valerie Barksdale
2007 Freedom Writers as Erin Gruwell
1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Kimberly Hannah
2007 The Reaping as Katherine
1994 The Next Karate Kid as Julie Pierce
2007 P.S. I Love You as Holly
2009 Amelia as Amelia Earhart
2004 11:14 as Buzzy
2003 The Core as Maj. Rebecca Childs
2006 The Black Dahlia as Madeleine Linscott
1996 Sometimes They Come Back... Again as Michelle Porter
2003 Under Antarctic Ice as Narrator (voice)
2004 Red Dust as Sarah Barcant
2008 Birds of America as Laura
2011 New Year's Eve as Claire Morgan
2010 Conviction as Betty Anne Waters
2004 Iron Jawed Angels as Alice Paul
2011 The Resident as Juliet Devereau
2001 The Affair of the Necklace as Jeanne St. Remy de Valois
1997 Dying to Belong as Lisa Connors
2006 ...So Goes the Nation as Self
1996 Kounterfeit as Colleen
1996 Terror in the Family as Deena Marten
1997 The Sleepwalker Killing as Lauren Schall
1997 Quiet Days in Hollywood as Lolita
2013 Mary and Martha as Mary
2013 Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
2024 Ordinary Angels as Sharon Stevens
2020 Disclosure as Brandon Teena / Self (archive footage)
2014 The Homesman as Mary Bee Cuddy
2023 The Good Mother as Marissa Bennings
2014 You're Not You as Kate
1998 Heartwood as Sylvia Orsini
2005 Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self - Presenter
Soon N.A.R.
1994 Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story as Patty Yaklich
2016 Spark: A Space Tail as The Queen (voice)
2006 On Native Soil as Narrator (voice)
2017 Logan Lucky as Special Agent Sarah Grayson
2018 55 Steps as Colette Hughes
2018 What They Had as Bridget
2017 Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
2019 I Am Mother as Woman
2001 The Concert for New York City as Self
2020 Fatale as Det. Valerie Quinlan
2020 The Hunt as Athena
2003 Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second as Self
2018 Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya as Self (archive footage)
2000 The Audition
2025 Clint Eastwood : la légende as Self
2005 James Lipton Takes on Three as Self
2005 Born to Fight as Self

1985 Growing Pains ( 2 episodes ) as Sasha Serotsky
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self
1996 The Daily Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1952 Today ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode )
1997 The View ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 3 episodes ) as Self
1999 The Early Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2009 The Jay Leno Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1992 Camp Wilder ( 19 episodes ) as Danielle
1997 Leaving L.A. ( 6 episodes ) as Tiffany Roebuck
2019 The Masked Singer ( 1 episode ) as Self
1953 The Oscars ( 6 episodes ) as Self
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
1981 Wetten, dass..? ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2016 Chelsea ( 1 episode ) as Self
2018 Trust ( 10 episodes ) as Gail Getty
2022 Alaska Daily ( 11 episodes ) as Eileen Fitzgerald
1990 Beverly Hills, 90210 ( 16 episodes ) as Carly Reynolds
1997 Leute heute ( 1 episode ) as Self
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 Punk'd ( 1 episode ) as Self
2005 The Reichen Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2020 Away ( 10 episodes ) as Emma Green
1984 Goldene Kamera ( 1 episode ) as Self
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1948 Bambi ( 1 episode ) as Self
1991 Harry and the Hendersons ( 1 episode ) as Chelsea
2018 Explained ( 1 episode ) as Narrator (voice)
2014 BoJack Horseman ( 5 episodes ) as Joey Pogo (voice)
2021 Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy ( 9 episodes ) as Self
2019 Today with Jenna & Sheinelle ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2021 Yellowjackets ( 2 episodes ) as Adult Melissa
1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee / Presenter
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2010 The Talk ( 1 episode ) as Self
2010 Conan ( 1 episode ) as Self
2019 I'm a LA… Get Me Out of Here! ( 18 episodes ) as Self - Contestant
1986 The Oprah Winfrey Show ( 1 episode ) as Self

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