Hilary Swank
Actor | Producer
Actor | Producer
Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. Swank's film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid (1994), as Julie Pierce, the first female protégé of sensei Mr. Miyagi. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, as Brandon Teena, a transman in Boys Don't Cry (1999) and as struggling waitress-turned-boxer, Maggie Fitzgerald, in Million Dollar Baby (2004).
Since 2003, Swank has worked as an executive producer, co-producing and starring in Conviction (2010).
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As: Detective Valerie Quinlan
A married man is tricked into a murder scheme by a female police detective.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Deon Taylor
Stars: Mike Colter | Michael Ealy | Hilary Swank | Geoffrey Owens | Damaris Lewis
As: Athena
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen… for a very specific purpose… The Hunt.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Craig Zobel
Stars: Ethan Suplee | Teri Wyble | Ike Barinholtz | Hilary Swank | Betty Gilpin
As: Woman
A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Grant Sputore
Stars: Rose Byrne | Hilary Swank | Luke Hawker | Clara Rugaard | Tahlia Sturzaker
As: Bridget Ertz
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Elizabeth Chomko
Stars: Robert Forster | Michael Shannon | Blythe Danner | Hilary Swank | Taissa Farmiga
As: Herself (archive footage)
Directed by: Karl Zero | Daisy D'Errata
Stars: Gérard Depardieu | Hillary Clinton | Ronaldinho Gaúcho | Ramzan Kadyrov | Nicolas Anelka
As: Colette Hughes
55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Bille August
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Jeffrey Tambor | Michael Culkin | Johan Heldenbergh | Hilary Swank
A high-art, high-fashion showcase of a star's many personas-and a vivid reminder that our art, not our obstacles, ultimately defines us. Free, focused, and fucking shit up again, it shows every side of Fergie-the superstar, the visual artist, the creative director, the label head, the fashion icon, the wife, and, she'll tell you most importantly, "mom."
Runtime: 63 min.
Directed by: Fatima Robinson | Chris Ullens | Ben Mor | Nina McNeely | Rich Lee | Bruno Ilogti | Chris Marrs Piliero | Colin Tilley | Jonas Åkerlund | Alek Keshishian
Stars: Fergie | Devon Aoki | Big Boy | Alessandra Ambrosio | Apl.de.Ap
As: Special Agent Sarah Grayson
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Katie Holmes | Riley Keough | Channing Tatum | Daniel Craig | Adam Driver
As: The Queen (voice)
Spark, a teenage monkey and his friends, Chunk and Vix, are on a mission to regain Planet Bana - a kingdom overtaken by the evil overlord Zhong.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Aaron Woodley
Stars: Susan Sarandon | Jessica Biel | Hilary Swank | Patrick Stewart | Jace Norman
As: Kate
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: George C. Wolfe
Stars: Josh Duhamel | Ali Larter | Hilary Swank | Emmy Rossum | Marcia Gay Harden
As: Mary Bee Cuddy
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Tommy Lee Jones
Stars: Miranda Otto | Grace Gummer | Tommy Lee Jones | Hailee Steinfeld | Hilary Swank
As: Herself
With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with people with whom he has worked, as well as comments from Clint Eastwood himself.
Runtime: 65 min.
Directed by: Richard Schickel
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Kevin Bacon | Marcia Gay Harden | Clint Eastwood | Brian Grazer
As: Mary
Wealthy American housewife Mary Morgan takes her bullied son George out of school for home education,including a trip to Southern Africa. Whilst in Mozambique George is bitten by a mosquito which crawls through a hole in his net and dies of malaria. After his funeral at home Mary feels a compulsion to return to Africa where she meets English woman Martha O'Connell,whose 24 year old son Ben, a teacher ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Frank Grillo | Hilary Swank | James Woods | Brenda Blethyn | Sam Claflin
As: Claire Morgan
The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Stars: Robert De Niro | Jessica Biel | Zac Efron | Hilary Swank | Michelle Pfeiffer
As: Juliet
Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and terror in every room as Juliet gets the unnerving feeling that she is not alone.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Antti Jokinen
Stars: Christopher Lee | Lee Pace | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | Aunjanue Ellis | Hilary Swank
As: Betty Anne Waters
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice, Betty ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Tony Goldwyn
Stars: Sam Rockwell | Melissa Leo | Peter Gallagher | Hilary Swank | Minnie Driver
As: Amelia Earhart
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Mira Nair
Stars: Ewan McGregor | Hilary Swank | Richard Gere | Christopher Eccleston | Aaron Abrams
As: Laura
A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Craig Lucas
Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin | Zoë Kravitz | Matthew Perry | Lauren Graham | Ben Foster
As: Holly
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Gina Gershon | Gerard Butler | Hilary Swank | Lisa Kudrow | Harry Connick Jr.
As: Katherine
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins
Stars: Idris Elba | AnnaSophia Robb | David Morrissey | Hilary Swank | Yvonne Landry
As: Erin Gruwell
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Scott Glenn | Patrick Dempsey | Hilary Swank | Imelda Staunton | Mario
As: Madeleine Linscott
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Stars: Aaron Eckhart | Hilary Swank | Mia Kirshner | Scarlett Johansson | Josh Hartnett
As: Narrator
Documentary - Kevin Costner, Hilary Swank
Directed by: Linda Ellman
Stars: Kevin Costner | Hilary Swank
As: Maggie Fitzgerald
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Mike Colter | Jay Baruchel | Hilary Swank | Clint Eastwood
As: Alice Paul
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Katja von Garnier
Stars: Margo Martindale | Molly Parker | Anjelica Huston | Hilary Swank | Frances O'Connor
As: Sarah Barcant
Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor | Jamie Bartlett | Hilary Swank | Marius Weyers | Ian Roberts
As: Buzzy
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Greg Marcks
Stars: Clark Gregg | Barbara Hershey | Hilary Swank | Henry Thomas | Blake Heron
As: Maj. Rebecca Childs
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Jon Amiel
Stars: Aaron Eckhart | Stanley Tucci | Tchéky Karyo | Hilary Swank | Delroy Lindo
As: Ellie Burr
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Martin Donovan | Hilary Swank | Robin Williams | Al Pacino | Maura Tierney
As: Jeanne St. Remy de Valois
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Charles Shyer
Stars: Simon Baker | Hilary Swank | Christopher Walken | Jonathan Pryce | Hayden Panettiere
As: Self
The Concert for New York City took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden. It was a celebration of the strength of New York and a thank-you to the heroic firefighters, police officers and rescue workers who saved tens of thousands of lives on September 11th. More than 6000 firefighters, police officers and rescue workers attended as guests.
Runtime: 296 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen | Kevin Smith | Jerry Seinfeld | Martin Scorsese | Spike Lee | Ric Burns | Edward Burns | Louis J. Horvitz | Christian Charles
Stars: David Bowie | Elton John | Paul McCartney | Eric Clapton | Billy Joel
As: Valerie Barksdale
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the arrest of an abusive husband, but did he really do it?
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Keanu Reeves | Giovanni Ribisi | Katie Holmes | Greg Kinnear
As: Brandon Teena
Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Kimberly Peirce
Stars: Chloë Sevigny | Brendan Sexton III | Hilary Swank | Peter Sarsgaard | Alicia Goranson
As: Sylvia Orsini
When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner Logan Reeser (two-time Oscar winner Jason Robards) is the only one who can stand in their way. Co-writer and director Lanny Cotler's David vs. Goliath tale features another two-time Oscar winner, Hilary Swank, as the scandal-prone daughter of the ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Lanny Cotler
Stars: John Terry | Stanley DeSantis | Jason Robards | Randall Batinkoff | Eddie Mills
As: Lauren Schall
Mark Schall kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in. He claims, however, that he cannot remember the crime itself. His defense team finds evidence that suggests the crimes were committed while Mark was sleep walking. They build their defense around this theory.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: John Cosgrove
Stars: Jeffrey Nordling | Hilary Swank | Sean Murray | Charles Esten
As: Lisa Connors
When a girls friend is killed by a college hazing, she is the only one who can find out the truth.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: William A. Graham
Stars: Hilary Swank | Sarah Chalke | Jennifer Warren | Laurel Holloman | Jenna von Oy
As: Colleen
Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time by trading it in for a cool million in authentic cash. However, when the trade goes awry, three men end up murdered- one a cop with a vengeful sister--and the hapless buddies find themselves caught between the police and mob hit men after the money.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Asher
Stars: Corbin Bernsen | Hilary Swank | Bobbie Brown | Andrew Hawkes | Gil Bernardy
As: Michelle Poter
Jon Porter returns to his hometown after the sudden and bizarre death of his mother. He hopes to leave as soon as the funeral is over but it's too late. The sinister forces that caused his sister's brutal murder 30 years ago are back. Jon knows the nightmare can't continue. He must stand up to his fear and exorcise the demons who have risen again to take posession of his beautiful teenage daughter - body ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Adam Grossman
Stars: Hilary Swank | BoJesse Christopher | Michael Gross | Alexis Arquette | Glen Beaudin
As: Deena Marten
Fifteen-year-old Deena Marten wants the same freedom every teenager craves. But when she can't have her way, her rebellious temperament erupts in violence. Her parents, Stephanie and Todd, fear her new boyfriend, Garret, 17, is the cause. Distraught, Stephanie turns to alcohol, and Todd escapes in his work. They're unaware their Boy Scout son Adam, 13, sips from a vodka bottle hidden in his ...
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Gregory Goodell
Stars: Adam Hendershott | Dan Lauria | Hilary Swank | Joanna Kerns | Nan Martin
As: Lolita
Behind the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown exists a harsh reality. Lolita (Hilary Swank) is a streetwalker hustling for business on Hollywood Blvd. Julie (Meta Golding) is a waitress coping with a sexual assault. And Peter (Peter Dobson) is struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. Their lives touch each other in ways they never expected in this drama co-starring Chad Lowe, Natasha Gregson Wagner and ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Josef Rusnak
Stars: Peter Dobson | Hilary Swank | Daryl Mitchell | Meta Golding | Chad Lowe
As: Julie Pierce
During a commemoration for Japanese soldiers fighting in the US Army during World War II, Mr. Miyagi meets the widow of his commanding officer. He gets to know her granddaughter Julie, an angry teenager who is still feeling the pain of losing both her parents in an accident and is having problems with her grandmother and her fellow pupils. Mr. Miyagi decides to teach her karate to get her through her ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Christopher Cain
Stars: Michael Ironside | Hilary Swank | Chris Conrad | Pat Morita | Constance Towers
As: Patty Yaklich
Donna Yaklich meets Dennis the policeman and thinks she might have found a good relationship. But Dennis is obsessed with weight-lifting and uses steroids, which make him aggressive and abusive. Getting out of the relationship isn't easy as Dennis isn't willing to let her go, and Donna's options are narrowed down to one remaining alternative.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Armand Mastroianni
Stars: Brad Johnson | Carolyn McCormick | Hilary Swank | Jaclyn Smith | David Lascher
As: Kimberly Hannah
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader-- her goal is to "marry Christian Slater and die" and nothing gets in her way when it's time to shop. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires. With the help of a romantic rebel, Buffy is soon spending school nights protecting L.A. from Lothos, the Vampire King, his sidekick. Lefty and their ...
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Fran Rubel Kuzui
Stars: Luke Perry | Donald Sutherland | Kristy Swanson | Rutger Hauer | Paul Reubens