Hilary Swank

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

95

Gender

Female

Birthday

1974-07-30 (51 years old)

Place of Birth

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Hilary 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).

Known For

  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  • The Kelly Clarkson Show

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • The View

    The View

  • Beverly Hills, 90210

    Beverly Hills, 90210

  • BoJack Horseman

    BoJack Horseman

  • Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

  • The Late Late Show with James Corden

    The Late Late Show with James Corden

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

  • Bambi

    Bambi

  • Wetten, dass..?

    Wetten, dass..?

  • Yellowjackets

    Yellowjackets

  • Leute heute

    Leute heute

  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

  • The Masked Singer

    The Masked Singer

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

  • The Jay Leno Show

    The Jay Leno Show

  • Insomnia

    Insomnia

  • Explained

    Explained

  • Chelsea

    Chelsea

  • Today with Hoda & Jenna

    Today with Hoda & Jenna

  • Punk'd

    Punk'd

  • The Reichen Show

    The Reichen Show

  • Goldene Kamera

    Goldene Kamera

  • 11:14

    11:14

  • The Hunt

    The Hunt

  • The Gift

    The Gift

  • Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

    Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

  • Ordinary Angels

    Ordinary Angels

  • Million Dollar Baby

    Million Dollar Baby

  • Away

    Away

  • Growing Pains

    Growing Pains

  • Trust

    Trust

  • Fatale

    Fatale

  • Alaska Daily

    Alaska Daily

  • P.S. I Love You

    P.S. I Love You

  • Logan Lucky

    Logan Lucky

  • The Core

    The Core

  • Today

    Today

  • Harry and the Hendersons

    Harry and the Hendersons

  • Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

    Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

  • Freedom Writers

    Freedom Writers

  • The Black Dahlia

    The Black Dahlia

  • The Good Mother

    The Good Mother

  • Kounterfeit

    Kounterfeit

  • New Year's Eve

    New Year's Eve

  • I Am Mother

    I Am Mother

  • The Next Karate Kid

    The Next Karate Kid

  • The Early Show

    The Early Show

  • The Resident

    The Resident

  • Camp Wilder

    Camp Wilder

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  • The Reaping

    The Reaping

  • The Homesman

    The Homesman

  • Quiet Days in Hollywood

    Quiet Days in Hollywood

  • Boys Don't Cry

    Boys Don't Cry

  • Conviction

    Conviction

  • Double Dutchess: Seeing Double

    Double Dutchess: Seeing Double

  • Amelia

    Amelia

  • Disclosure

    Disclosure

  • Leaving L.A.

    Leaving L.A.

  • You're Not You

    You're Not You

  • Mary and Martha

    Mary and Martha

  • N.A.R.

    N.A.R.

  • Red Dust

    Red Dust

  • Spark: A Space Tail

    Spark: A Space Tail

  • 55 Steps

    55 Steps

  • Sometimes They Come Back... Again

    Sometimes They Come Back... Again

  • What They Had

    What They Had

  • The Affair of the Necklace

    The Affair of the Necklace

  • Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

    Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

  • Iron Jawed Angels

    Iron Jawed Angels

  • Birds of America

    Birds of America

  • Clint Eastwood : la légende

    Clint Eastwood : la légende

  • The Concert for New York City

    The Concert for New York City

  • On Native Soil

    On Native Soil

  • Terror in the Family

    Terror in the Family

  • ...So Goes the Nation

    ...So Goes the Nation

  • Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

    Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

  • The Sleepwalker Killing

    The Sleepwalker Killing

  • Under Antarctic Ice

    Under Antarctic Ice

  • Dying to Belong

    Dying to Belong

  • Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

    Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

  • Born to Fight

    Born to Fight

  • James Lipton Takes on Three

    James Lipton Takes on Three

  • Heartwood

    Heartwood

  • Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya

    Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya

  • The Audition

    The Audition