Hilary Swank
Born: July 30, 1974
American
Actress, Producer
Height: 5ft. 4in. tall
Measurements: 34B -25 -34
Website: www.hilary-swank.org
Hilary Ann Swank is an American film actress, she has won the Academy Award
for Best Actress twice, as Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (1999) and as
struggling waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby
(2004). Swank was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her mother, Judy Kay (née Clough),
was a secretary and dancer, and her father, Stephen Michael Swank, was an
officer in the Air National Guard and later a traveling salesman. She has a
brother, Daniel, who is eight years her senior. Her surname, originally
Schwenk, is of German origin. Many of Swank's family members hail from Ringgold
County, Iowa, and her maternal grandmother was of Spanish and Shoshone (Native
American) ancestry. After having lived in Spokane, Washington, Swank's family
moved to a trailer park near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington, when Swank
was six. Swank made her movie debut in 1992 in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
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.
