Hilary Swank

Birthday: Jul 30, 1974
Birthplace: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Biography:
Hilary was discovered as a child by producer Suzy Sachs, who coached her in acting. When she was nine years old she starred in her first play as "Mowgli" in "The Jungle Book." She began to appear regularly in local theater and school plays. She went to school in Bellingham, where she lived with her family, until she was 16. She competed in the Junior Olympics and Washington State championships in swimming; she ranked 5th in the state in all-around gymnastics (which would come in handy for starri...
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ng in The Next Karate Kid (1994) years later). In 1990, Hilary and her mother moved to Los Angeles, where she enrolled in South Pasadena High School, and started acting professionally. She appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) but The Next Karate Kid (1994) where she got the part competing against hundreds of other actresses was her breakout role. Ever since then she has been much in demand, and has worked non-stop in movies. She won the Best Actress Oscar for Boys Don't Cry (1999). She starred in a few minor films before starring in Clint Eastwood's boxing drama Million Dollar Baby (2004) that won her a Golden Globe and a SAG Award, as well as her second Academy Award. She is two for two at the Oscars, a feat she shares only with a few other women. Off-screen, she married Chad Lowe on September 28, 1997. An aficionado for anything that involves the outdoors, she enjoys: sky diving, river rafting, and skiing.
Filmography
- The Resident (2010)
- Betty Anne Waters (2009)
- Amelia (2009)
- Birds of America (2008)
- P.S. I Love You (2007)
- The Reaping (2007)
- Freedom Writers (2007)
- The Black Dahlia (2006)
- Beautiful Ohio (2006)
- On Native Soil (2005)
- Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- Red Dust (2004)
- 11:14 (2003)
- The Core (2003)
- Iron Jawed Angels (2003)
- Insomnia (2002)
- The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
- The Gift (2000)
- Boys Don't Cry (1999)
- Heartwood (1998)
- The Sleepwalker Killing (Crimes of Passion: Sleepwalker) (1997)
- Quiet Days in Hollywood (1997)
- Dying to Belong (1997)
- Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)
- Terror in the Family (1996)
- Kounterfeit (1996)
- Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (Victim of Rage) (1994)
- The Next Karate Kid (1994)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
- Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
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- G.k.nihal Priyantha at 8:46pm on October 29th, 2009
- good collection
- Dariusz Sobanski at 4:57am on October 19th, 2009
- Milion Dollar Baby - my number one :) Ps. I Love You ;)))
- filiz günay at 8:22am on June 19th, 2009
- extraordinary,excellent,different...........
- Yenny Fernandez Zamora at 10:14pm on May 4th, 2009
- i <3 her :D
- Suvi Muikku at 12:58am on March 20th, 2009
- amazing, great, phenomenal, unbelievable...
- Joan Bithell at 10:04am on February 7th, 2009
- mt kind of actress
- Facebook User at 12:55pm on November 7th, 2008
- Hilary Swank is phenomenal.
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