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Hilary Swank
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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…
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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
Clint Eastwood : la légende
Movie Self
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2024
Ordinary Angels
Movie Sharon Stevens
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2023
The Good Mother
Movie Marissa Bennings
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2022
Alaska Daily
TV show Eileen Fitzgerald
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2021
Yellowjackets
TV show Adult Melissa
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2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
TV show Self
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2020
Fatale
Movie Det. Valerie Quinlan
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2020
Away
TV show Emma Green
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2020
Disclosure
Movie Brandon Teena / Self (archive footage)
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2020
The Hunt
Movie Athena
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2019
I'm a LA… Get Me Out of Here!
TV show Self - Contestant
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
I Am Mother
Movie Woman
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2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
TV show Self
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2019
The Masked Singer
TV show Special Message (via video)
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2018
What They Had
Movie Bridget
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2018
Explained
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2018
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Trust
TV show Gail Getty
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2018
55 Steps
Movie Colette Hughes
- 2017
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2017
Logan Lucky
Movie Special Agent Sarah Grayson
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2016
Chelsea
TV show Self
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2016
Spark: A Space Tail
Movie The Queen (voice)
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
You're Not You
Movie Kate
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2014
BoJack Horseman
TV show Joey Pogo (voice)
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2014
The Homesman
Movie Mary Bee Cuddy
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Movie Self
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2013
Mary and Martha
Movie Mary
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2011
New Year's Eve
Movie Claire Morgan
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2011
Something Borrowed
Movie Producer
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2011
The Resident
Movie Juliet Devereau
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2010
Conan
TV show Self
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2010
The Talk
TV show Self
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2010
Conviction
Movie Betty Anne Waters
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2009
Amelia
Movie Amelia Earhart
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2009
The Jay Leno Show
TV show Self
