Swank, Hilary 1974–

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SWANK, Hilary 1974–

PERSONAL

Full name, Hilary Ann Swank; born July 30, 1974, in Lincoln, NE; raised in Washington and California; daughter of Stephen (in the military and in sales) and Judy (a secretary and dancer) Swank; married Chad Lowe (an actor), September 28, 1997 (some sources cite October 2, 1997). Education: Attended Santa Monica College; studied martial arts with Pat Johnson. Avocational Interests: Outdoor activities, rafting, skiing, skydiving, animals.

Addresses:

Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager—Untitled Entertainment, 331 North Maple Dr., Second Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Publicist—Baker Winokur Ryder, 9100 Wilshire Blvd., Sixth Floor West, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Actress and producer. Appeared in television commercials and print advertisements; Harvey Milk School at the Hetrick–Martin Institute, New York City, spokesperson. Ranked gymnast as a teenager and a swimmer.

Awards, Honors:

Young Artist Award nomination, best young actress in a new television series, Young Artist Foundation, 1993, for Camp Wilder; New York Film Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Boston Society of Film Critics Award, Stockholm Film Festival Award, and Gijon International Film Festival Award, all best actress, Toronto Film Critics Association Award, best performance, female, and National Board of Review Award, breakthrough performance—female, all 1999, Academy Award, best actress in a leading role, Golden Globe Award, best performance by an actress in a motion picture—drama, Chicago Film Critics Association Award, Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award, Florida Film Critics Circle Award, Southeastern Film Critics Association Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, and Chlotrudis Award, all best actress, Independent Spirit Award, best female lead, Independent Features Project/West, Golden Satellite Award, best performance by an actress in a motion picture, drama, International Press Academy, Sierra awards, most promising actress and best actress, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, Santa Fe Film Critics Circle Award, best actress, Festival Diploma (with Kimberly Pierce), best full–length fiction film with special distinction for performance, Molodist International Film Festival, Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role, MTV Movie Award nomination, breakthrough female performance, Online Film Critics Society Award nomination, best actress, and MTV Movie Award nomination (with Chloe Sevigny), best kiss, all 2000, Film Award nomination, best performance by an actress in a leading role, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, ALFS Award nomination, actress of the year, London Critics Circle Film Award nomination, actress of the year, and Empire Award nomination, best actress, all 2001, all for Boys Don't Cry; ShoWest Award, female star of tomorrow, National Association of Theatre Owners, 2000; Saturn Award nomination, best supporting actress, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 2001, for The Gift; Empire Award nomination, best actress, 2003, for Insomnia; Boston Society of Film Critics Award and Florida Film Critics Circle Award, both best actress, and Phoenix Film Critics Society Award, best performance by an actress in a leading role, all 2004, Academy Award, best performance by an actress in a leading role, Golden Globe Award, best performance by an actress in a motion picture—drama, Screen Actors Guild Award, outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role, National Society of Film Critics Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award, and Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award, all best actress, Golden Satellite Award, best actress in a motion picture, drama, MTV Movie Award nomination, best female performance, Online Film Critics Society Award nomination, best actress, and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination (with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman), outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture, all 2005, all for Million Dollar Baby; Golden Globe Award nomination, best performance by an actress in a miniseries or a motion picture made for television, and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or miniseries, both 2005, for Iron Jawed Angels.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Kimberly Hannah, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1992.

Julie Pierce, The Next Karate Kid, Columbia, 1994.

Colleen, Kounterfeit (also known as Money Crush), LIVE Entertainment, 1996.

Michelle Porter, Sometimes They Come Back … Again (also known as Sometimes They Come Back 2), Trimark Pictures, 1996.

Lolita, The Way We Are (also known as Quiet Days in Hollywood), Kick Film, 1997.

Brandon Teena/Teena Brandon, Boys Don't Cry (also known as Take It Like a Man), Twentieth Century–Fox, 1999.

Valerie Barksdale, The Gift, Paramount, 2000.

The Audition (short film), 2000.

Jeanne St. Remy de Valois, The Affair of the Necklace, Warner Bros., 2001.

Detective Ellie Burr, Insomnia, Warner Bros., 2002.

The Space Between (short film), 2002.

Buzzy, 11:14, MDP Worldwide, 2003.

Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs, The Core (also known as Core), Paramount, 2003.

Maggie Fitzgerald, Million Dollar Baby (also known as Rope Burns), Warner Bros., 2004.

Sarah Barcant, Red Dust, BBC Films, 2004.

Madeleine Sprague, The Black Dahlia, Lions Gate Films, 2005.

Narrator, On Native Soil (documentary), Linda Ellman Productions, 2005.

Catherine, The Reaping, Warner Bros., 2006.

Teacher, Freedom Writers, Paramount, 2006.

Film Executive Producer:

11:14, MDP Worldwide, 2003.

Freedom Writers, Paramount, 2006.

Television Appearances; Series:

Aimee, Evening Shade, CBS, 1991–92.

Danielle, Camp Wilder, ABC, 1992–93.

Tiffany Roebuck, Leaving L.A., ABC, 1997.

Carly Reynolds, Beverly Hills 90210, Fox, 1997–98.

Participant, Celebrity Charades, American Movie Classics, beginning 2005.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Patty, Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (also known as Victim of Rage), CBS, 1994.

Deena Martin, Terror in the Family, Fox, 1996.

Lauren Schall, The Sleepwalker Killings (also known as Crimes of Passion: Sleepwalker and From the Files of Unsolved Mysteries: "The Sleepwalker Killings"), NBC, 1997.

Lisa Connors, Dying to Belong, NBC, 1997.

Sylvia Orsini, Heartwood, Family Channel, 1998.

Alice Paul, Iron Jawed Angels, HBO, 2004.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Narrator, Reel Models: The First Women of Film (documentary), American Movie Classics, 2000.

Herself, The Concert for New York City, multiple networks, 2001.

(In archive footage) Herself, ""63: Acceptance Speech Goofs," 101 Biggest Celebrity Oops, E! Entertainment Television, 2004.

Herself, Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope, multiple networks, 2005.

Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:

Presenter, Cybermania '94: The Ultimate Gamer Awards, TBS, 1994.

Herself, The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards, NBC, 2000.

Herself, The 72nd Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2000.

Presenter, VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross (also known as Divas 2000), VH1, 2000.

Herself, The Orange British Academy Film Awards, 2001.

Presenter, The 73rd Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2001.

Ladies' Home Journal's Most Fascinating Women to Watch, CBS, 2001.

(Uncredited) The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Film Channel, 2001.

Presenter, The 2002 MTV Movie Awards, MTV, 2002.

Presenter, The 75th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2003.

Presenter, The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Film Channel and Bravo, 2004.

Herself, The 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, TNT, 2005.

Herself, The 77th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2005.

Herself, The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, NBC, 2005.

Herself, The 10th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, The WB, 2005.

Herself, The 2005 MTV Movie Awards, MTV, 2005.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Sasha Serotsky, "There Must Be a Pony," Growing Pains, ABC, 1991.

"Harry Goes Ape," Harry and the Hendersons, syndicated, 1991.

Sasha Serotsky, "Menage a Luke," Growing Pains, ABC, 1992.

Herself, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, NBC, 1999.

Herself, Today (also known as NBC News Today and The Today Show), NBC, 2000, 2004.

Herself, The View, ABC, 2000, 2004.

Herself, "The Affair of the Necklace," HBO First Look, HBO, 2001.

Herself, Beverly Hills 90210: The E! True Hollywood Story (documentary), E! Entertainment Television, 2001.

Herself, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC, 2001, 2003, 2004.

Herself, The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS, 2002, 2003, 2004.

Herself, The Daily Show (also known as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Global Edition), Comedy Central, 2003.

Herself, Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (also known as Ellen and The Ellen DeGeneres Show), syndicated, 2004.

Coming Attractions, E! Entertainment Television, 2004.

Herself, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, NBC, 2005.

Herself, The Oprah Winfrey Show (also known as Oprah), syndicated, multiple appearances in 2005.

Host, Saturday Night Live (also known as NBC's "Saturday Night," Saturday Night, and SNL), NBC, 2005.

Herself, Waratte iitomo, [Japan], 2005.

Appeared as Danielle, ABC TGIF (also known as TGIF), ABC.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Tiffany Roebuck, Leaving L.A., ABC, 1997.

Appeared as Andi in the pilot Reality Checks.

Television Work; Series:

Executive producer, Celebrity Charades, American Movie Classics, beginning 2005.

Stage Appearances:

Gretel, Hansel and Gretel, Missoula Children's Theatre, Missoula, MT, 1987.

Cinderella, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cinderella, Bellingham Theatre, Bellingham, WA, 1988.

Annie Sullivan, The Miracle Worker, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Charlotte, NC, 2003.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Herself, The Gift: A Look Inside (short documentary film), 2001.

Herself, Day for Night: The Making of "Insomnia" (short documentary film), Warner Home Video, 2002.

Herself, Sex at 24 Frames per Second (documentary; also known as Playboy Presents "Sex at 24 Frames per Second: The Ultimate Journey through Sex in Cinema"), Playboy Entertainment Group, 2003.