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