Cast
Hilary Swank
Acting
Cast
Hilary Swank
Known for
Acting
Born
1974-07-30
From
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Also known as Hilary Ann 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).
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Insomnia
as Ellie Burr
★6.5
MOVIE2000
The Gift
as Valerie Barksdale
★6.6
MOVIE2020
The Hunt
as Athena
★8.0
MOVIE2004
Million Dollar Baby
as Maggie Fitzgerald
★6.8
MOVIE2004
11:14
as Buzzy
★6.7
MOVIE2017
Logan Lucky
as Special Agent Sarah Grayson
★5.9
MOVIE2011
New Year's Eve
as Claire Morgan
★6.7
MOVIE2019
I Am Mother
as Woman
★7.2
MOVIE2007
P.S. I Love You
as Holly
★5.8
MOVIE2003
The Core
as Maj. Rebecca Childs
★5.4
MOVIE1994
The Next Karate Kid
as Julie Pierce
★7.9
MOVIE2007
Freedom Writers
as Erin Gruwell
★5.6
MOVIE1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Kimberly Hannah
★5.6
MOVIE2006
The Black Dahlia
as Madeleine Linscott
★7.7
MOVIE2024
Ordinary Angels
as Sharon Stevens
★5.8
MOVIE2007
The Reaping
as Katherine
★7.4
MOVIE1999
Boys Don't Cry
as Brandon Teena
★6.5
MOVIE2014
The Homesman
as Mary Bee Cuddy
★5.8
MOVIE2011
The Resident
as Juliet Devereau
★7.4
MOVIE2014
You're Not You
as Kate
★7.8
MOVIE2020
Disclosure
as Brandon Teena / Self (archive footage)
★4.9
MOVIE2023
The Good Mother
as Marissa Bennings
★6.0
MOVIE2020
Fatale
as Det. Valerie Quinlan
★5.6
MOVIE2001
The Affair of the Necklace
as Jeanne St. Remy de Valois
★4.9
MOVIE2016
Spark: A Space Tail
as The Queen (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE2004
Iron Jawed Angels
as Alice Paul
★7.1
MOVIE2010
Conviction
as Betty Anne Waters
★5.1
MOVIE2001
The Concert for New York City
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE2018
55 Steps
as Colette Hughes
★3.4
MOVIE1997
Quiet Days in Hollywood
as Lolita
★6.3
MOVIE2013
Mary and Martha
as Mary
★6.2
MOVIE2017
Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
★6.5
MOVIE2018
What They Had
as Bridget
MOVIE2025
Clint Eastwood : la légende
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1997
The Sleepwalker Killing
as Lauren Schall
★5.7
MOVIE2009
Amelia
as Amelia Earhart
★5.4
MOVIE2008
Birds of America
as Laura
★4.7
MOVIE1996
Kounterfeit
as Colleen
★5.5
MOVIE1997
Dying to Belong
as Lisa Connors
★5.3
MOVIE2003
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE1996
Sometimes They Come Back... Again
as Michelle Porter
★6.0
MOVIE1996
Terror in the Family
as Deena Marten
★6.9
MOVIE2006
...So Goes the Nation
as Self
★2.0
MOVIE2005
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self - Presenter
★6.1
MOVIE2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE2004
Red Dust
as Sarah Barcant
MOVIETBA
N.A.R.
★8.0
MOVIE2006
On Native Soil
as Narrator (voice)
★3.0
MOVIE2018
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE2005
James Lipton Takes on Three
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2005
Born to Fight
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE1994
Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
as Patty Yaklich
★3.8
MOVIE1998
Heartwood
as Sylvia Orsini
★8.0
MOVIE2000
The Audition
MOVIE2003
Under Antarctic Ice
as Narrator (voice)