Hilary Swank
Acting • Born 1974-07-30
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).
Filmography
96 credits
Million Dollar Baby
Movie • 2004
Maggie Fitzgerald
Boys Don't Cry
Movie • 1999
Brandon Teena
Insomnia
Movie • 2002
Ellie Burr
The Gift
Movie • 2000
Valerie Barksdale
Freedom Writers
Movie • 2007
Erin Gruwell
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Movie • 1992
Kimberly Hannah
The Reaping
Movie • 2007
Katherine
The Next Karate Kid
Movie • 1994
Julie Pierce
P.S. I Love You
Movie • 2007
Holly
Amelia
Movie • 2009
Amelia Earhart
11:14
Movie • 2004
Buzzy
The Core
Movie • 2003
Maj. Rebecca Childs
The Black Dahlia
Movie • 2006
Madeleine Linscott
Sometimes They Come Back... Again
Movie • 1996
Michelle Porter
Under Antarctic Ice
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
Red Dust
Movie • 2004
Sarah Barcant
Birds of America
Movie • 2008
Laura
New Year's Eve
Movie • 2011
Claire Morgan
Conviction
Movie • 2010
Betty Anne Waters
Iron Jawed Angels
Movie • 2004
Alice Paul
The Resident
Movie • 2011
Juliet Devereau
The Affair of the Necklace
Movie • 2001
Jeanne St. Remy de Valois
Dying to Belong
Movie • 1997
Lisa Connors
...So Goes the Nation
Movie • 2006
Self
Kounterfeit
Movie • 1996
Colleen
Terror in the Family
Movie • 1996
Deena Marten
The Sleepwalker Killing
Movie • 1997
Lauren Schall
Quiet Days in Hollywood
Movie • 1997
Lolita
Mary and Martha
Movie • 2013
Mary
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Movie • 2013
Self
Ordinary Angels
Movie • 2024
Sharon Stevens
Disclosure
Movie • 2020
Brandon Teena / Self (archive footage)
The Homesman
Movie • 2014
Mary Bee Cuddy
The Good Mother
Movie • 2023
Marissa Bennings
You're Not You
Movie • 2014
Kate
Heartwood
Movie • 1998
Sylvia Orsini
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Movie • 2005
Self - Presenter
N.A.R.
Movie
Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
Movie • 1994
Patty Yaklich
Spark: A Space Tail
Movie • 2016
The Queen (voice)
On Native Soil
Movie • 2006
Narrator (voice)
Logan Lucky
Movie • 2017
Special Agent Sarah Grayson
55 Steps
Movie • 2018
Colette Hughes
What They Had
Movie • 2018
Bridget
Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
Movie • 2017
I Am Mother
Movie • 2019
Woman
The Concert for New York City
Movie • 2001
Self
Fatale
Movie • 2020
Det. Valerie Quinlan
The Hunt
Movie • 2020
Athena
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Movie • 2003
Self
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
The Audition
Movie • 2000
Clint Eastwood : la légende
Movie • 2025
Self
James Lipton Takes on Three
Movie • 2005
Self
Born to Fight
Movie • 2005
Self
Growing Pains
TV • 1985
Sasha Serotsky
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Today
TV • 1952
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Self
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
The Jay Leno Show
TV • 2009
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Camp Wilder
TV • 1992
Danielle
Leaving L.A.
TV • 1997
Tiffany Roebuck
The Masked Singer
TV • 2019
Special Message (via video)
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Chelsea
TV • 2016
Self
Trust
TV • 2018
Gail Getty
Alaska Daily
TV • 2022
Eileen Fitzgerald
Beverly Hills, 90210
TV • 1990
Carly Reynolds
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Punk'd
TV • 2003
Self
The Reichen Show
TV • 2005
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Away
TV • 2020
Emma Green
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
Harry and the Hendersons
TV • 1991
Chelsea
Explained
TV • 2018
Narrator (voice)
BoJack Horseman
TV • 2014
Joey Pogo (voice)
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
TV • 2021
Self
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
TV • 2019
Self
Yellowjackets
TV • 2021
Adult Melissa
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self - Guest