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).
Filmography
all 89
Movies 54
TV Shows 35
self 30
Producer 5
Voice 2
Narrator 2
Ordinary Angels (2024)
The Good Mother (2023)
Alaska Daily (2022)
Fatale (2020)
Away (2020)
Disclosure (2020)
The Hunt (2020)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
I Am Mother (2019)
And the Winners Are! (2019)
The Masked Singer (2019)
What They Had (2018)
Explained (2018)
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya (2018)
Trust (2018)
55 Steps (2018)
Double Dutchess: Seeing Double (2017)
Logan Lucky (2017)
Chelsea (2016)
Spark: A Space Tail (2016)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
You're Not You (2014)
BoJack Horseman (2014)
The Homesman (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)
Mary and Martha (2013)
New Year's Eve (2011)
Something Borrowed (2011)
The Resident (2011)
Conviction (2010)
Amelia (2009)
The Jay Leno Show (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Birds of America (2008)
P.S. I Love You (2007)
The Reaping (2007)
Freedom Writers (2007)
Beautiful Ohio (2006)
...So Goes the Nation (2006)
The Black Dahlia (2006)
On Native Soil (2006)
The Reichen Show (2005)
A Concert for Hurricane Relief (2005)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
Red Dust (2004)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
11:14 (2003)
The Core (2003)
Punk'd (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Under Antarctic Ice (2003)
Insomnia (2002)
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
The Concert for New York City (2001)
The Gift (2000)
The Early Show (1999)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Heartwood (1998)
The View (1997)
Leute heute (1997)
The Sleepwalker Killing (1997)
Leaving L.A. (1997)
Dying to Belong (1997)
Quiet Days in Hollywood (1997)
Kounterfeit (1996)
Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)
The Daily Show (1996)
Terror in the Family (1996)
The Next Karate Kid (1994)
Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (1994)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
Camp Wilder (1992)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Harry and the Hendersons (1991)
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Growing Pains (1985)
Wetten, dass..? (1981)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)
The Oscars (1953)
Today (1952)
Bambi Awards (1948)
N.A.R.
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1974-07-30 (49 years old)
Birth NameHilary Ann Swank
Birth PlaceLincoln, United States
LifestyleVegetarianism
Height
RelationshipsChad Lowe (1997-01-01 - 2007-01-01)
SpousePhilip Schneider
ChildrenElizabeth Swank-Schneider, James Swank-Schneider
FatherStephen Michael Swank
MotherJudy Kay Clough
CitizenshipsUnited States
ResidencesLos Angeles, United States of America
Also Known As힐러리 스웽크
AwardsBBC 100 Women, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Academy Award for Best Actress
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