Hilary Swank

Known for ActingBorn 1974-07-30 (age 51)Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

BoJack Horseman

Bambi

On Native Soil

James Lipton Takes on Three

Born to Fight

Disclosure

The Audition

Freedom Writers

Million Dollar Baby

Leaving L.A.

Ordinary Angels

The Masked Singer

Explained

Yellowjackets

You're Not You

Alaska Daily

Boys Don't Cry

P.S. I Love You

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

Beverly Hills, 90210

Conviction

Trust

Insomnia

...So Goes the Nation

Logan Lucky

I Am Mother

55 Steps

11:14

Iron Jawed Angels

The Hunt

Away

The Homesman

What They Had

Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

Saturday Night Live

Golden Globe Awards

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Oscars

The Gift

Mary and Martha

The Daily Show

Double Dutchess: Seeing Double

Growing Pains

The Early Show

Something Borrowed

Fatale

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story