Hilary Swank

At 49 years old, Hilary Swank has this physical status:

Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film director.

She has received numerous awards throughout her career, including two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Swank appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) before being cast in the fourth installment of The Karate Kid (1994).

On television, she appeared as Carly Reynolds on the eighth season of Fox's teen drama Beverly Hills (1997–1998).

Swank's performance in Boys Don't Cry (1999), a trans man in the biographical drama film in which she received her first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, was widely praised.

Swank earned her second Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role Maggie Fitzgerald in Clint Eastwood's sports drama film Million Dollar Baby (2004). Swank has appeared in other films, including The Gift (2000), Insomnia (2002), The Core (2003), Iron Jawed Angels (2004), The Reaping (2007), P.S.

I Love You (2007), Freedom Writers (2007), Amelia (2010), Conviction (2010), New Year's Eve (2011), You're Not You (2014), Logan Lucky (2016), and I Love You (2017).

Gail Getty was the subject of a FX television series Trust's 2018 film Gail Getty.

Early life

Swank was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 30, 1974. Judy Kay (née Clough) was a secretary and dancer, and her father, Stephen Michael Swank, was a Chief Master Sergeant in the Oregon Air National Guard and later a traveling salesman. Many of Swank's relatives hail from Ringgold, Iowa. Frances Martha Clough (née Dominguez), her maternal grandmother, was born in El Centro, California, and she was of Mexican (Spanish and Native American) descent. Swank's paternal grandmother was born in England, and her other ancestry includes Dutch, German, Ulster-Scots, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh. The surname "Swank," originally "Schwenk," is of German origins.

Swank's family moved to Lake Samish, Washington, when Swank was six years old. She attended Happy Valley Elementary School, Fairhaven Middle School, and then Sehome High School in Bellingham, until she was 16. She competed in the Junior Olympics and the Washington state championships in swimming, and she finished fifth in the state in all-around gymnastics. Swank made her first appearance on stage when she was nine years old, in The Jungle Book.

When she was 15, her parents and her mother, who was supportive of her daughter's ability to act, accompanied her to Los Angeles, where they lived in their car until Swank's mother was able to rent an apartment. Swank's mother has influenced her acting career and her life. Swank attended South Pasadena High School in California, before dropping out. "I felt like such an outsider" during her time at South Pasadena High School. I didn't feel like I fit in. I didn't belong in any way. I didn't even feel like the teachers wanted me to attend. I just felt like I wasn't seen or understood." "I felt like an outsider as a child," she said, and that she could relate to a character as well as when I read a book or watched a movie." I guess I was fated to be those people or at least play them."

Personal life

The coworkers debate whether or not Hilary Swank is "hot" in a January 2009 episode of The Office's "Prince Family Paper." Swank referred to such discussions that stress the appearance of women in Hollywood as a "disservice."

Swank drew backlash after attending an event in Chechny's capital Grozny on the 35th birthday of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov on October 5. "I read." She reportedly said after wishing him "Happy Birthday, Mr. President," she revealed her knowledge of Kadyrov. "I do my homework." Swank said she was unaware that Kadyrov had been accused of human rights abuses in Chechnya ahead of the protest and asked her to reconsider her participation "deeply." "She gave her personal appearance fees to several charitable organizations."

Swank revealed in a 2020 interview with Health that she took a three-year break from acting to help her father recover from a lung transplant.

After meeting on the set of the television series ER, actress Mariska Hargitay has become a good friend. Hargitay was a maid of honor at Swank's wedding to Philip Schneider in 2018.

Chad Lowe, actor Chad Lowe, appeared on HBO during filming Quiet Days. They married on September 28, 1997. On January 9, 2006, they announced their intention to divorce, which was finalized on November 1, 2007. Swank began dating John Campisi in 2007, but they broke down in May 2012.

Swank revealed her relationship with Rubén Torres, a financial advisor with UBS and former professional tennis player, on March 22, 2016. Since May 2015, the two couples had been dating for the first time. Torres and she had ended their relationship in June 2016, according to Swank's representative.

After two years of dating, she married billionaire Philip Schneider on August 18, 2018.

She and her husband are expecting twins on October 5, 2022, according to her.

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Career

Swank made her film debut in the 1992 comedy horror film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a supporting role, after which she acted in the direct-to-video drama Quiet Days in Hollywood, where she co-starred with Chad Lowe, who became her husband for a time.

Her first leading film role was in the fourth installment of the Karate Kid series, The Next Karate Kid (1994) as Julie Pierce. The role used her gymnastics background and paired her with Pat Morita. In 1994, she also starred in the drama Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story, as the abused stepdaughter who was protected by Donna (Jaclyn Smith). In 1995, she appeared with British actor Bruce Payne in Kounterfeit. In 1996, she starred in a TV movie, family drama Terror in the Family, as a troubled teenager. In September 1997, Swank played single mother Carly Reynolds in Beverly Hills, 90210 and was initially promised it would be a two-year role, but saw her character written out after 16 episodes in January 1998. Swank later stated that she was devastated at being cut from the show, thinking, "If I'm not good enough for 90210, I'm not good enough for anything."

The firing from Beverly Hills, 90210 freed her to audition for the role of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry. To prepare for the role, Swank lived as a man for a month and reduced her body fat to 7%. She earned only $75 per day for her work on the film, culminating in a total of $3,000. Her earnings were so low that she had not even earned enough to qualify for health insurance. Upon release, many critics lauded her performance, with Premiere listing it as one of the "100 Greatest Performances of All Time". James Berardinelli wrote at the time that Swank "gives the performance of her career". Her work earned her several accolades, including the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress. In an interview with Variety in 2020, Swank said that she felt a trans actor should have played the role, and had she been offered it today, she would have refused it, stating "Twenty-one years later, not only are trans people having their lives and living, thankfully, although we still have a long way to go in their safety and their inclusivity, but we now have a bunch of trans actors who would obviously be a lot more right for the role and have the opportunity to actually audition for the role."

Swank again won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for playing a female boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film Million Dollar Baby, a role for which she underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room, aided by professional trainer Grant L. Roberts, gaining 19 pounds of muscle. With her second Oscar, she had joined the ranks of Vivien Leigh, Sally Field, and Luise Rainer as the only actresses to have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress twice and won both times. After winning her second Oscar, she said, "I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream."

In 2006, Swank signed a three-year contract with Guerlain to be the face of the women's fragrance Insolence. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the motion picture category on January 8, 2007; it was the 2,325th star presented. In 2007, Swank starred in Freedom Writers, about a real-life teacher, Erin Gruwell. Many reviews of her performance were positive, with one critic noting that she "brings credibility" to the role, and another stating that her performance reaches a "singular lack of artifice, stripping herself back to the bare essentials". Swank next starred in the horror film The Reaping (2007), as a debunker of religious phenomena. Swank convinced the producers to move the film's setting from New England to the Deep South, and the film was filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when Hurricane Katrina struck. The same year, she also appeared in the romantic drama P.S. I Love You with Gerard Butler.

Swank portrayed the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart in the 2009 biopic Amelia, which she also co-executive produced through 2S Films, a production company she established with producer Molly Smith.

In 2012, Swank's audiobook recording of Caroline Knapp's Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs was released at Audible.com. In 2013, she starred in the television film Mary and Martha alongside Brenda Blethyn. In 2014, Swank played the lead role of Kate Parker, a woman whose life is shattered when she develops the degenerative disease ALS, in You're Not You. The film co-starred Emmy Rossum and Josh Duhamel. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.

In 2017, she appeared in Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky, as Special Agent Sarah Grayson, alongside Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig, and portrayed lawyer Colette Hughes in Bille August's drama film 55 Steps. In 2018, Swank starred in and executive produced the Alzheimer's disease drama film What They Had, directed by Elizabeth Chomko. Also in 2018, she portrayed Gail Getty in the first season of FX's anthology series Trust. Swank was reported to star as Laura Murphy in Alejandro González Iñárritu's drama series The One Percent.

In July 2019, Swank was cast in the thriller film The Hunt, opposite Betty Gilpin. Before its release, the film's plot, about deadly violence between political liberals and conservatives caused controversy, after which its release was delayed by Universal from the original date of September 2019. Swank commented on the situation, stating: "No one's seen the film. You can't really have a conversation about it without understanding what it's about." The film was released in 2020, and received mixed reviews. In September 2020, Swank portrayed Emma, an astronaut, in the Netflix science drama series Away, which was cancelled after one season. For both The Hunt and Away, Swank earned a total of three nominations at the 2021 Critics' Choice Super Awards.

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