Hilary Swank

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1974-07-30 (51 years old)

Place of Birth

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Hilary Swank

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, i...

Acting

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

2009

Amelia

as Amelia Earhart

2003

11:14

as Buzzy

2003

The Core

as Maj. Rebecca Childs

2006

The Black Dahlia

as Madeleine Linscott

1996

2003

Under Antarctic Ice

as Narrator (voice)

2004

Red Dust

as Sarah Barcant

2008

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

1996

Kounterfeit

as Colleen

1996

Terror in the Family

as Deena Marten

1997

The Sleepwalker Killing

as Lauren Schall

2013

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

1998

Heartwood

as Sylvia Orsini

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

2019

I Am Mother

as Woman

2020

Fatale

as Det. Valerie Quinlan

2020

The Hunt

as Athena

2018

Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya

as Self (archive footage)

Production

2003

11:14

as Executive Producer

2011

2010

Conviction

as Executive Producer

2020

Fatale

as Producer

2023

The Good Mother

as Executive Producer

2011

The Resident

as Executive Producer

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N.A.R.

as Executive Producer

2006

Beautiful Ohio

as Producer

2018

What They Had

as Executive Producer

2007

Freedom Writers

as Executive Producer

2014

You're Not You

as Producer

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