
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).
Acting (52 movies)

Million Dollar Baby
2004

Boys Don't Cry
1999

Insomnia
2002

The Gift
2000

Freedom Writers
2007

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992

The Reaping
2007

The Next Karate Kid
1994

P.S. I Love You
2007

Amelia
2009

11:14
2003

The Core
2003

The Black Dahlia
2006

Sometimes They Come Back... Again
1996

Under Antarctic Ice
2003

Red Dust
2004

Birds of America
2008

New Year's Eve
2011

Conviction
2010

Iron Jawed Angels
2004

The Resident
2011

The Affair of the Necklace
2001

Dying to Belong
1997

...So Goes the Nation
2006

Kounterfeit
1996

Terror in the Family
1996

The Sleepwalker Killing
1997

Quiet Days in Hollywood
1997

Mary and Martha
2013

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013

Ordinary Angels
2024

Disclosure
2020

The Homesman
2014

The Good Mother
2023

You're Not You
2014

Heartwood
1998

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005

Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
1994

Spark: A Space Tail
2016

On Native Soil
2006

Logan Lucky
2017

55 Steps
2018

What They Had
2018

Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
2017

I Am Mother
2019

The Concert for New York City
2001

Fatale
2020

The Hunt
2020

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003

Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
2018

The Audition
2000

Born to Fight
2005
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| 11:14 | 2003 | Executive Producer |
| Beautiful Ohio | 2006 | Producer |
| Freedom Writers | 2007 | Executive Producer |
| Conviction | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| The Resident | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Something Borrowed | 2011 | Producer |
| You're Not You | 2014 | Producer |
| What They Had | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Fatale | 2020 | Producer |
| The Good Mother | 2023 | Executive Producer |