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Hilary Swank

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Known For

50 Years Old

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).

Born

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA on 30th July 1974

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The Kelly Clarkson Show
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The Daily Show
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Bambi-Verleihung
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Wetten, dass..?
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The Masked Singer
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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The View
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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Golden Globe Awards
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The Reichen Show
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The Jay Leno Show
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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Chelsea
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Beverly Hills, 90210
Carly Reynolds
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BoJack Horseman
Joey Pogo (voice)
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Yellowjackets
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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Saturday Night Live
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Explained
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The Oscars
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Growing Pains
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Harry and the Hendersons
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Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
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Gail Getty
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Camp Wilder
Danielle
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Alaska Daily
Eileen Fitzgerald
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The Early Show
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Leaving L.A.
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I'm a LA... Get Me Out of Here!
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The Hunt
Athena
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The Next Karate Kid
Julie Pierce
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Million Dollar Baby
Maggie Fitzgerald
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Today
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Freedom Writers
Erin Gruwell
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The Core
Maj. Rebecca Childs
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Insomnia
Ellie Burr
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Logan Lucky
Special Agent Sarah Grayson
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P.S. I Love You
Holly
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The Black Dahlia
Madeleine Linscott
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Ordinary Angels
Sharon Stevens
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Kimberly Hannah
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Fatale
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The Gift
Valerie Barksdale
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New Year's Eve
Claire Morgan
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Boys Don't Cry
Brandon Teena
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The Homesman
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I Am Mother
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Disclosure
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The Reaping
Katherine
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The Resident
Juliet Devereau
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The Good Mother
Marissa Bennings
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You're Not You
Kate
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11:14
Buzzy
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Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
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Amelia
Amelia Earhart
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Conviction
Betty Anne Waters
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Spark: A Space Tail
The Queen (voice)
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55 Steps
Colette Hughes
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What They Had
Bridget
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The Affair of the Necklace
Jeanne St. Remy de Valois
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Mary and Martha
Mary
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Iron Jawed Angels
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
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Sometimes They Come Back... Again
Michelle Porter
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Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
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Birds of America
Laura
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The Concert for New York City
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Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
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Clint Eastwood : la légende
Herself
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Red Dust
Sarah Barcant
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...So Goes the Nation
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The Sleepwalker Killing
Lauren Schall
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Kounterfeit
Colleen
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Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
Patty Yaklich
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Dying to Belong
Lisa Connors
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Terror in the Family
Deena Marten
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Heartwood
Sylvia Orsini
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Quiet Days in Hollywood
Lolita
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On Native Soil
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Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
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The Audition
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