Cast & creator
Hilary Swank
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Daily Show
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).
Also known as: Hilary Ann Swank
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film credits
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television credits
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1944–2025 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (112)
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Conan
Self
2010
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The View
Self
1997
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Leute heute
Self
1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Beverly Hills, 90210
Carly Reynolds
1990
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self - Guest
2003
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
The Talk
Self
2010
BoJack Horseman
Joey Pogo (voice)
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
The Masked Singer
Special Message (via video)
2019
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
Yellowjackets
Adult Melissa
2021
Punk'd
Self
2003The Reichen Show
Self
2005
Bambi
Self
1948
Chelsea
Self
2016
The Oscars
Self
1953
Today
Self
1952
The Jay Leno Show
Self
2009
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Self
2019
Growing Pains
Sasha Serotsky
1985Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Harry and the Hendersons
Chelsea
1991
Explained
Narrator (voice)
2018
Logan Lucky
Special Agent Sarah Grayson
2017
The Hunt
Athena
2020
Alaska Daily
Eileen Fitzgerald
2022Alaska Daily
Executive Producer
2022
Million Dollar Baby
Maggie Fitzgerald
2004
The Early Show
Self
1999
Trust
Gail Getty
2018
P.S. I Love You
Holly
2007
Freedom Writers
Erin Gruwell
2007Freedom Writers
Executive Producer
2007
The Core
Maj. Rebecca Childs
2003
New Year's Eve
Claire Morgan
2011
Insomnia
Ellie Burr
2002
Camp Wilder
Danielle
1992
Away
Emma Green
2020Away
Executive Producer
2020
The Next Karate Kid
Julie Pierce
1994
Boys Don't Cry
Brandon Teena
1999
Ordinary Angels
Sharon Stevens
2024
The Gift
Valerie Barksdale
2000
The Homesman
Mary Bee Cuddy
2014
Something Borrowed
Producer
2011
You're Not You
Kate
2014You're Not You
Producer
2014
I Am Mother
Woman
2019
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Kimberly Hannah
1992
The Reaping
Katherine
2007
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Self
2021I'm a LA… Get Me Out of Here!
Self - Contestant
2019
The Black Dahlia
Madeleine Linscott
2006
The Resident
Juliet Devereau
2011The Resident
Executive Producer
2011
Fatale
Det. Valerie Quinlan
2020Fatale
Producer
2020
11:14
Buzzy
200411:14
Executive Producer
2004
Spark: A Space Tail
The Queen (voice)
2016
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Self
2003
What They Had
Bridget
2018What They Had
Executive Producer
2018
Amelia
Amelia Earhart
2009
Conviction
Betty Anne Waters
2010Conviction
Executive Producer
2010
55 Steps
Colette Hughes
2018
Leaving L.A.
Tiffany Roebuck
1997
The Good Mother
Marissa Bennings
2023The Good Mother
Executive Producer
2023
Sometimes They Come Back... Again
Michelle Porter
1996
The Concert for New York City
Self
2001
Iron Jawed Angels
Alice Paul
2004
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Self - Presenter
2005
Double Dutchess: Seeing Double
2017
The Affair of the Necklace
Jeanne St. Remy de Valois
2001Clint Eastwood : la légende
Self
2025
Disclosure
Brandon Teena / Self (archive footage)
2020
Mary and Martha
Mary
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
2013
Birds of America
Laura
2008
Beautiful Ohio
Producer
2006
...So Goes the Nation
Self
2006
Quiet Days in Hollywood
Lolita
1997
Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
Patty Yaklich
1994
Kounterfeit
Colleen
1996
Terror in the Family
Deena Marten
1996
Dying to Belong
Lisa Connors
1997
Heartwood
Sylvia Orsini
1998
The Sleepwalker Killing
Lauren Schall
1997
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
Self (archive footage)
2018James Lipton Takes on Three
Self
2005
Red Dust
Sarah Barcant
2004N.A.R.
N.A.R.
Executive Producer
Born to Fight
Self
2005
The Audition
2000
On Native Soil
Narrator (voice)
2006
Under Antarctic Ice
Narrator (voice)
2003