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