
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).

The Hunt
as Athena

Million Dollar Baby
as Maggie Fitzgerald

The Core
as Maj. Rebecca Childs

Insomnia
as Ellie Burr

The Gift
as Valerie Barksdale

Logan Lucky
as Special Agent Sarah Grayson

Freedom Writers
as Erin Gruwell

New Year's Eve
as Claire Morgan

P.S. I Love You
as Holly

Disclosure
as Brandon Teena / Self (archive footage)

The Next Karate Kid
as Julie Pierce

Ordinary Angels
as Sharon Stevens

The Homesman
as Mary Bee Cuddy

Fatale
as Det. Valerie Quinlan

I Am Mother
as Woman

11:14
as Buzzy

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Kimberly Hannah

The Reaping
as Katherine

The Black Dahlia
as Madeleine Linscott

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
as Self

The Resident
as Juliet Devereau

Boys Don't Cry
as Brandon Teena

You're Not You
as Kate

Conviction
as Betty Anne Waters

55 Steps
as Colette Hughes

Spark: A Space Tail
as The Queen (voice)

The Good Mother
as Marissa Bennings

Iron Jawed Angels
as Alice Paul

The Concert for New York City
as Self

The Affair of the Necklace
as Jeanne St. Remy de Valois

Amelia
as Amelia Earhart

Heartwood
as Sylvia Orsini

Sometimes They Come Back... Again
as Michelle Porter

...So Goes the Nation
as Self

What They Had
as Bridget

Red Dust
as Sarah Barcant

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Self

Clint Eastwood : la légende
as Self

Double Dutchess: Seeing Double

Quiet Days in Hollywood
as Lolita

Mary and Martha
as Mary

Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
as Self (archive footage)

Birds of America
as Laura

Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
as Patty Yaklich

Kounterfeit
as Colleen

The Sleepwalker Killing
as Lauren Schall

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self - Presenter

Dying to Belong
as Lisa Connors

Terror in the Family
as Deena Marten

N.A.R.

On Native Soil
as Narrator (voice)

The Audition

Born to Fight
as Self

James Lipton Takes on Three
as Self

Under Antarctic Ice
as Narrator (voice)