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Hilary Swank

Actor, ProducerBorn July 30, 1974 (51 years)
Hilary Ann Swank 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).

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Homesman
  • The Resident
  • Growing Pains
  • Sometimes They Come Back... Again
  • Red Dust
  • Spark: A Space Tail
  • Terror in the Family
  • Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

Known For

  • Million Dollar Baby
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • P.S. I Love You
  • Insomnia
  • New Year's Eve
  • Freedom Writers
  • The Hunt
  • The Core
  • 11:14
  • Conviction
  • The Reaping
  • The Homesman
  • I Am Mother
  • The Resident
  • You're Not You
  • Away
  • The Black Dahlia
  • The Next Karate Kid
  • Ordinary Angels
  • Fatale
  • The Gift
  • Amelia
  • Alaska Daily
  • Something Borrowed

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2024
    Ordinary Angels · as Sharon Stevens
    2023
    The Good Mother · as Marissa Bennings
    2022
    Alaska Daily (TV Series) · as Eileen Fitzgerald
    2021
    Yellowjackets (TV Series) · as Adult Melissa
    2020
    Fatale · as Det. Valerie Quinlan
    2020
    Away (TV Series) · as Emma Green
    2020
    Disclosure · as Brandon Teena / Self (archive Footage)
    2020
    The Hunt · as Athena
    2019
    I Am Mother · as Woman
    2019
    The Masked Singer (US) (TV Series) · as Special Message (via Video)
    2018
    What They Had · as Bridget
    2018
    Explained (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice)
    2018
    Trust (2018) (TV Series) · as Gail Getty
    2017
    55 Steps · as Colette Hughes
    2017
    2017
    Logan Lucky · as Special Agent Sarah Grayson
    2016
    Spark: A Space Tail · as The Queen (voice)
    2014
    You're Not You · as Kate
    2014
    BoJack Horseman (TV Series) · as Joey Pogo (voice)
    2014
    The Homesman · as Mary Bee Cuddy
    2013
    Mary and Martha · as Mary
    2011
    New Year's Eve · as Claire Morgan
    2011
    The Resident · as Juliet Devereau
    2010
    Conviction · as Betty Anne Waters
    2009
    Amelia · as Amelia Earhart
    2008
    Birds of America · as Laura
    2007
    P.S. I Love You · as Holly
    2007
    The Reaping · as Katherine
    2007
    Freedom Writers · as Erin Gruwell
    2006
    The Black Dahlia · as Madeleine Linscott
    2006
    On Native Soil · as Narrator (voice)
    2005
    San Sebastián 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero · as Teena Brandon - Brandon Teena
    2004
    Million Dollar Baby · as Maggie Fitzgerald
    2004
    Iron Jawed Angels · as Alice Paul
    2004
    Red Dust · as Sarah Barcant
    2003
    11:14 · as Buzzy
    2003
    The Core · as Maj. Rebecca Childs
    2002
    Insomnia · as Ellie Burr
    2001
    The Affair of the Necklace · as Jeanne St. Remy De Valois
    2000
    The Gift · as Valerie Barksdale
    1999
    Boys Don't Cry · as Brandon Teena
    1998
    Heartwood · as Sylvia Orsini
    1997
    The Sleepwalker Killing · as Lauren Schall
    1997
    Leaving L.A. (TV Series) · as Tiffany Roebuck
    1997
    Dying to Belong · as Lisa Connors
    1997
    1996
    Kounterfeit · as Colleen
    1996
    1996
    1994
    The Next Karate Kid · as Julie Pierce
    1994
    1992
    Camp Wilder (TV Series) · as Danielle
    1992
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer · as Kimberly Hannah
    1991
    Harry and the Hendersons (TV Series) · as Chelsea
    1990
    Beverly Hills, 90210 (TV Series) · as Carly Reynolds
    1990
    Evening Shade (TV Series) · as Aimee
    1985
    Growing Pains (TV Series) · as Sasha Serotsky
    1982
    Nature (TV Series) · as Narrator

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