Hilary Swank
Born: 1974-07-30 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- Clint Eastwood : la légende as Self
2024
- Ordinary Angels as Sharon Stevens
2023
- The Good Mother as Marissa Bennings
2022
- Alaska Daily as Eileen Fitzgerald
2021
- Yellowjackets as Adult Melissa
- Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
2020
- The Hunt as Athena
- Fatale as Det. Valerie Quinlan
- Away as Emma Green
- Disclosure as Brandon Teena / Self (archive footage)
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- The Masked Singer as Special Message (via video)
- Today with Jenna & Sheinelle as Self
- I Am Mother as Woman
- Yellowjackets as Melissa
2018
- Explained as Narrator (voice)
- Trust as Gail Getty
- 55 Steps as Colette Hughes
- What They Had as Bridget
- Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Logan Lucky as Special Agent Sarah Grayson
- Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
2016
- Chelsea as Self
- Spark: A Space Tail as The Queen (voice)
2015
- The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- BoJack Horseman as Joey Pogo (voice)
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- The Homesman as Mary Bee Cuddy
- You're Not You as Kate
2013
- Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- Mary and Martha as Mary
2011
- New Year's Eve as Claire Morgan
- Something Borrowed ... (Producer)
- The Resident as Juliet Devereau
2010
- Conviction as Betty Anne Waters
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- The Jay Leno Show as Self
- Amelia as Amelia Earhart
2008
- Birds of America as Laura
2007
- P.S. I Love You as Holly
- Freedom Writers as Erin Gruwell
- The Reaping as Katherine
2006
- The Black Dahlia as Madeleine Linscott
- ...So Goes the Nation as Self
- On Native Soil as Narrator (voice)
- Beautiful Ohio ... (Producer)
2005
- The Reichen Show as Self
- Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self - Presenter
- Born to Fight as Self
- James Lipton Takes on Three as Self
2004
- Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald
- 11:14 as Buzzy
- Iron Jawed Angels as Alice Paul
- Red Dust as Sarah Barcant
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Punk'd as Self
- The Core as Maj. Rebecca Childs
- Sex at 24 Frames Per Second as Self
- Under Antarctic Ice as Narrator (voice)
2002
- Insomnia as Ellie Burr
2001
- The Concert for New York City as Self
- The Affair of the Necklace as Jeanne St. Remy de Valois
2000
- The Gift as Valerie Barksdale
- The Audition
1999
- Boys Don't Cry as Brandon Teena
- The Early Show as Self
1998
- Heartwood as Sylvia Orsini
1997
- The View as Self
- Leute heute as Self
- Leaving L.A. as Tiffany Roebuck
- Dying to Belong as Lisa Connors
- Quiet Days in Hollywood as Lolita
- The Sleepwalker Killing as Lauren Schall
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Sometimes They Come Back... Again as Michelle Porter
- Terror in the Family as Deena Marten
- Kounterfeit as Colleen
1994
- The Next Karate Kid as Julie Pierce
- Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story as Patty Yaklich
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
- Camp Wilder as Danielle
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Kimberly Hannah
1991
- Harry and the Hendersons as Chelsea
1990
- Beverly Hills, 90210 as Carly Reynolds
1985
- Growing Pains as Sasha Serotsky
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1948
- Bambi as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee / Presenter