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 (1997β1998).
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 (94)
Clint Eastwood : la lΓ©gende
2025
Ordinary Angels
2024
The Good Mother
2023
Alaska Daily
2022
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
Yellowjackets
2021
Disclosure
2020
Fatale
2020
The Hunt
2020
Away
2020
I Am Mother
2019
The Masked Singer
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
55 Steps
2018
What They Had
2018
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
2018
Trust
2018
Explained
2018
Logan Lucky
2017
Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
2017
Spark: A Space Tail
2016
Chelsea
2016
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Homesman
2014
You're Not You
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
BoJack Horseman
2014
Mary and Martha
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
New Year's Eve
2011
The Resident
2011
Conviction
2010
Amelia
2009
The Jay Leno Show
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Birds of America
2008
Freedom Writers
2007
The Reaping
2007
P.S. I Love You
2007
The Black Dahlia
2006
...So Goes the Nation
2006
On Native Soil
2006
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
James Lipton Takes on Three
2005
Born to Fight
2005
The Reichen Show
2005
Million Dollar Baby
2004
11:14
2004
Red Dust
2004
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
The Core
2003
Under Antarctic Ice
2003
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Punk'd
2003
Insomnia
2002
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
The Concert for New York City
2001
The Gift
2000
The Audition
2000
Boys Don't Cry
1999
The Early Show
1999
Heartwood
1998
Dying to Belong
1997
The Sleepwalker Killing
1997
Quiet Days in Hollywood
1997
The View
1997
Leaving L.A.
1997
Leute heute
1997
Sometimes They Come Back... Again
1996
Kounterfeit
1996
Terror in the Family
1996
The Daily Show
1996
The Next Karate Kid
1994
Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Camp Wilder
1992
Harry and the Hendersons
1991
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Growing Pains
1985
Goldene Kamera
1984
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Oscars
1953
Today
1952
Bambi
1948
Golden Globe Awards
1944
N.A.R.