Hilary Swank 1974 51
Hilary Swank 1974 51
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).
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2025 N.A.R. Executive Producer
2024 Ordinary Angels as Sharon Stevens
2023 The Good Mother as Marissa Bennings Executive Producer
2020 Fatale as Det. Valerie Quinlan Producer
2020 Disclosure as Brandon Teena / Self (archive footage)
2020 The Hunt as Athena
2019 I Am Mother as Woman
2018 What They Had as Bridget Executive Producer
2018 Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya as Self (archive footage)
2018 55 Steps as Colette Hughes
2017 Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
2017 Logan Lucky as Special Agent Sarah Grayson
2016 Spark: A Space Tail as The Queen (voice)
2014 You're Not You as Kate Producer
2014 The Homesman as Mary Bee Cuddy
2013 Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
2013 Mary and Martha as Mary
2011 New Year's Eve as Claire Morgan
2011 Something Borrowed Producer
2011 The Resident as Juliet Devereau Executive Producer
2010 Conviction as Betty Anne Waters Executive Producer
2009 Amelia as Amelia Earhart
2008 Birds of America as Laura
2007 P.S. I Love You as Holly
2007 The Reaping as Katherine
2007 Freedom Writers as Erin Gruwell Executive Producer
2006 Beautiful Ohio Producer
2006 ...So Goes the Nation as Self
2006 The Black Dahlia as Madeleine Linscott
2006 On Native Soil as Narrator (voice)
2005 Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self - Presenter
2004 Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald
2004 Iron Jawed Angels as Alice Paul
2004 Red Dust as Sarah Barcant
2003 Sex at 24 Frames Per Second as Self
2003 11:14 as Buzzy Executive Producer
2003 The Core as Maj. Rebecca Childs
2003 Under Antarctic Ice as Narrator (voice)
2002 Insomnia as Ellie Burr
2001 The Affair of the Necklace as Jeanne St. Remy de Valois
2001 The Concert for New York City as Self
2000 The Audition
2000 The Gift as Valerie Barksdale
1999 Boys Don't Cry as Brandon Teena
1998 Heartwood as Sylvia Orsini
1997 The Sleepwalker Killing as Lauren Schall
1997 Dying to Belong as Lisa Connors
1997 Quiet Days in Hollywood as Lolita
1996 Kounterfeit as Colleen
1996 Sometimes They Come Back... Again as Michelle Porter
1996 Terror in the Family as Deena Marten
1994 The Next Karate Kid as Julie Pierce
1994 Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story as Patty Yaklich
1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Kimberly Hannah