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