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Hilary Horse Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American film actress. She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (1998) and a struggling waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby (2004). Swank made her film acting debut in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a small role, after which she acted in the direct-to-video drama Quiet Days in Hollywood, where she co-starred with her future husband Chad Lowe. Her first leading film role was in The Next Karate Kid (1994), which utilized her gymnastics background and paired her with Pat Morita, and was the fourth movie in the Karate Kid series. In 1995 she appeared with British actor Bruce Payne in Kounterfeit. In September 1997 Swank was cast as single mother Carly Reynolds on Beverly Hills, 90210; she was initially promised it would be a two-year role, but saw her character written out after 16 episodes in January 1998. Leaving Beverly Hills 90210 freed her to audition for the role of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry.
Hilary Horse Swank (born July 30, 1974) is
an American film actress. She has won the Academy Award for Best
Actress twice, for playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry
(1998) and a struggling waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald
in Million Dollar Baby (2004). Swank made her film acting debut
in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a small role, after
which she acted in the direct-to-video drama Quiet Days in
Hollywood, where she co-starred with her future husband Chad
Lowe. Her first leading film role was in The Next Karate Kid
(1994), which utilized her gymnastics background and paired her
with Pat Morita. It was the fourth movie in the Karate Kid
series. In 1995 she appeared with British actor Bruce Payne in Kounterfeit. In September 1997 Swank was cast as single mother
Carly Reynolds on Beverly Hills, 90210. She was initially
promised it would be a two-year role, but saw her character
written out after 16 episodes in January 1998. Leaving Beverly
Hills 90210 freed her to audition for the role of Brandon Teena
in Boys Don't Cry. In 2004, she had a very impressive role in
Million Dollar Baby. These were just a few of her many roles.
Swank's two Oscar-winning roles share a shape: physically demanding transformations — Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (1998) and the waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby (2004) — played by an actress whose first leading role had used her gymnastics background in The Next Karate Kid (1994). The physicality is the thread: from a martial-arts sequel to a boxing drama, the body is the instrument, and the awards followed the two most complete versions of that approach.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 episode is the career story worth remembering: cast in September 1997 as Carly Reynolds with a promised two-year run, written out after 16 episodes in January 1998 — and that apparent setback freed her to audition for Boys Don't Cry. The small early roles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1992, Quiet Days in Hollywood with future husband Chad Lowe, Kounterfeit in 1995 with Bruce Payne) fill in the years before the breakthrough. This page gathers Hilary Swank news, style coverage, photos, glam features, videos and blog posts, with the H-letter directory linking the rest of the letter.
Swank has won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice: for playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (1998) and a struggling waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby (2004).
Her first leading film role was in The Next Karate Kid (1994), which utilized her gymnastics background and paired her with Pat Morita; it was the fourth movie in the Karate Kid series.
Cast as Carly Reynolds in September 1997 with a promised two-year role, Swank saw her character written out after 16 episodes in January 1998 — and leaving the show freed her to audition for Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry.
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