Hilary Swank
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-07-30
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, 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).
Also Known For
Million Dollar Baby
Dec 05, 2004
Boys Don't Cry
Sep 02, 1999
Insomnia
May 24, 2002
The Gift
Mar 16, 2000
Freedom Writers
Jan 05, 2007
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jul 24, 1992
The Reaping
Apr 05, 2007
The Next Karate Kid
Jul 18, 1994
P.S. I Love You
Nov 15, 2007
Amelia
Oct 22, 2009
11:14
Sep 05, 2003
The Core
Mar 28, 2003
The Black Dahlia
Sep 15, 2006
Sometimes They Come Back... Again
Sep 03, 1996
Under Antarctic Ice
Jan 12, 2003
Red Dust
Jan 11, 2004
Birds of America
Oct 09, 2008
New Year's Eve
Dec 08, 2011
Conviction
Oct 15, 2010
Iron Jawed Angels
Jan 16, 2004
The Resident
Feb 10, 2011
The Affair of the Necklace
Nov 30, 2001
Dying to Belong
Feb 24, 1997
...So Goes the Nation
Oct 04, 2006
Kounterfeit
Nov 15, 1996
Terror in the Family
Apr 16, 1996
The Sleepwalker Killing
Apr 28, 1997
Quiet Days in Hollywood
Jan 01, 1997
Mary and Martha
Mar 01, 2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Apr 27, 2013
Ordinary Angels
Feb 22, 2024
Disclosure
Jun 19, 2020
The Homesman
May 18, 2014
The Good Mother
Aug 31, 2023
You're Not You
Oct 10, 2014
Heartwood
Apr 19, 1998
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Sep 02, 2005
N.A.R.
Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
Feb 01, 1994
Spark: A Space Tail
Apr 22, 2016
On Native Soil
Jan 01, 2006
Logan Lucky
Aug 17, 2017
55 Steps
Mar 01, 2018
What They Had
Oct 19, 2018
Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
Sep 20, 2017
I Am Mother
Jun 07, 2019
The Concert for New York City
Oct 20, 2001
Fatale
Dec 18, 2020
The Hunt
Mar 11, 2020
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Sep 23, 2003
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
May 15, 2018
The Audition
Dec 09, 2000
Clint Eastwood : la légende
May 23, 2025
Growing Pains
Sep 24, 1985
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Today
Jan 14, 1952
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
The Early Show
Nov 01, 1999
The Jay Leno Show
Sep 14, 2009
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Camp Wilder
Sep 18, 1992
Leaving L.A.
Apr 12, 1997
The Masked Singer
Jan 02, 2019
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Wetten, dass..?
Feb 14, 1981
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mar 23, 2015
Chelsea
May 11, 2016
Trust
Mar 25, 2018
Alaska Daily
Oct 06, 2022
Beverly Hills, 90210
Oct 04, 1990
Leute heute
Jul 23, 1997
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Punk'd
Mar 17, 2003
The Reichen Show
Nov 11, 2005
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
Away
Sep 04, 2020
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Feb 03, 1984
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
Bambi-Verleihung
Jan 01, 1948
Harry and the Hendersons
Jan 13, 1991
Explained
May 23, 2018
BoJack Horseman
Aug 22, 2014
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Sep 09, 2021
Today with Hoda & Jenna
Apr 08, 2019
Yellowjackets
Nov 14, 2021
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
