Hillary Swank Bio, Wiki, Age, ACTRESS, Height, Family, Twins, Husband, Career, Net Worth, and Tw
Hillary Swank Biography
Hillary Swank, an American TV Personality/Actress/Producer became first known for her role in the Television Series Camp Wilder in the year 1992. She, however, made her debut in her acting career by playing a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the year 1992.
Hillary Swank Age and Birthday
Swank celebrates her birthday on the 30th of July every year. She was born on the 30th of July 1974 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. She is 48 years old as of 2022.
Hillary Swank Height and Weight
She stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 6 inches and weighs around 55 kg.
Hillary Swank Family, Parents, and Siblings
Swank was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska to loving and caring parents. Her father, Stephen Michael Swank was a Chief Master Sergeant in the Oregon Air National Guard and later a traveling salesman. His mother, Judy Kay(née Clough), on the other hand, was a secretary and dancer. Many of Swank's family members are from Ringgold County, Iowa.
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Hillary states that her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Clough(née Dominguez) was born in El Centro, California. He was of Mexican(Spanish and Native American) descent. Her paternal grandmother was born in England and her ancestry includes Dutch, Ulster-Scots, Welsh, German, Swiss, and Scottish. The surname "Swank" originally "Schwenk" is of German origin.
Later on, after living in Spokane, Washington, her family moved into a home near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington, when she was about six years old. She made her first appearance on stage when she was nine years old when she was starring in The Jungle Book.
When she was about 15 years old, her parents unfortunately separated, and her mother, supportive of her daughter's desire to act moved with her to Los Angeles. There, they lived in the ca until Swank's mother saved enough money to rent an apartment. She has called her mother the inspiration for her acting career and her life.
Hillary Swank Dating, Husband
While she was filming Quiet Days in Hollywood, she met actor Chad Lowe and the duo got married on the 28th of September 1997. Unfortunately, they announced their intention to divorce on the 9th of January 2006, and the divorce was finalized on the 1st of November 2007. The year 2007 saw her begin dating Jer agent, John Campisi. Unfortunately, they also ended their relationship in the month of May 2012.
On the 22nd of March 2016, she announced her engagement to Reuben Torres who was a Financial Advisor with UBS and a former professional tennis player. the duo had been dating since May 2015. Later on, in June 2016, her representative confirmed that Torres had ended their engagement. On the 18th of August 2018, she got married to entrepreneur Philip Schneider after two years of dating.
Hillary Swank Children/Twins
On the 5th of October 2022, Swank announced that she and her husband were expecting twins. She shared this information on her Instagram Account on the 5th of October 2022.
Hillary Swank Education
Swank attended Happy Elementary School, Fairhaven Middle School, and Sehome High School in Bellingham until she was about 16 years old. Later on, she competed in the Junior Olympics and the Washington State Championships in swimming. She ranked fifth in the state in all-around gymnastics.
While in California, she enrolled in South Pasadena High School before dropping out. She has also described her time at South Pasadena High School. She states that she felt like such an outsider and didn't feel like fitting in. Swank states that she did not belong to any.
She states that she did not even feel like the teachers wanted her there. Aside from this, she states that she just felt like she wasn't seen or understood. Besides this, she explained that she became an actor because she felt like an outsider, and as a kid, she felt that she belonged only when she read a book or saw a movie. Aside from this, she could get involved with a character. Swank further explains that it was natural and she became an actor because she longed so much to be those other people, or at least to play them.
Hillary Swank Acting Career
In a January 2009 episode of The Office, "Prince Family Paper", the episode's subplot is the office coworkers debating whether or not Hilary Swank is "hot". Swank referred to such discussions emphasizing the looks of women in Hollywood as doing a "disservice".
In October 2011, Swank attracted controversy for attending an event in Chechnya's capital Grozny on the 35th birthday of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov on October 5. After wishing him "Happy birthday, Mr. President", she reportedly claimed knowledge about Kadyrov saying, "I read. I do my research." Following criticism from human rights groups, that reported having informed her about the human rights abuses in Chechnya prior to the event and asked her to reconsider her participation, Swank said she was unaware that Kadyrov had been accused of human rights violations and that she "deeply regrets" taking part in the lavish concert. She donated her personal appearance fees "to various charitable organizations".
In a 2020 interview with Health, Swank revealed that she took a three-year break from acting beginning in 2014 to help her father recover from a lung transplant. She has been good friends with actress Mariska Hargitay after meeting on the set of the television series ER. Hargitay was a maid of honor at Swank's wedding to Philip Schneider in 2018.
Hillary Swank Career
Swink works as an actress and producer and made her acting debut in the year 1992. Actress and producer Hilary Ann Swank made her cinematic debut in 1992 with a little part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She originally gained notoriety in 1992 for her appearance on the television series Camp Wilder (1992). Her breakthrough roles included Julie Pierce in the fourth Karate Kid film, The Next Karate Kid (1994), and Carly Reynolds in the eighth season of Beverly Hills, 90210. (1997–1998).
Swank gained notoriety for her roles as a transgender guy named Brandon Teena in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry (1999) and as an ambitious boxer named Maggie Fitzgerald in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004). She received praise for both of her performances and won several awards, including two Oscars, two Golden Globes, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2005, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most important persons in the world.
With the movies, Amelia (2009), Conviction (2010), You're Not You (2014), and What They Had (2018)—all of which she also starred in—Swank later made the transition into producing. Her other significant productions include the feature films Freedom Writers (2007), Logan Lucky (2017), The Hunt (2020), and Fatale, as well as the television films Iron Jawed Angels (2004) and Fatal (2020).
With a supporting role, Swank made her acting debut in the 1992 comedy-horror movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She then appeared in the direct-to-video drama Quiet Days in Hollywood, where she co-starred with Chad Lowe, who briefly became her husband.
Hillary Swank in 1998
The Next Karate Kid (1994), the fourth film in the Karate Kid series, gave her her first leading role as Julie Pierce. Her background in gymnastics was utilized for the part involving Pat Morita. She also portrayed Donna Yaklich's shielded stepdaughter in the 1994 drama Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (Jaclyn Smith). Hillary co-starred in the 1995 film Kounterfeit with British actor Bruce Payne. She played a troubled teen in the 1996 television film Terror in the Family, a family drama.
Swank began filming for her two-year role as single mother Carly Reynolds in Beverly Hills, 90210 in September 1997. However, in January 1998, her character was written out after only 16 episodes. Swank subsequently admitted that being fired from the show crushed her, making her feel as though she wasn't good enough for anything else if she wasn't good enough for 90210.
She had more time after being fired from Beverly Hills, 90210 to try out for the part of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry. Swank decreased her body fat to 7% and spent a month pretending to be a male in order to prepare for the part. She received only $75 per day, or $3,000 overall, for her work on the movie. She didn't even have enough money to qualify for health insurance due to her poor earnings. When it was released, numerous critics praised it, and Premiere included it on its list of the "100 Greatest Performances of All Time." Swank "gives the performance of her career," according to James Berardinelli, who was writing at the time.
She received numerous honors for her work, including the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Actress. Swank stated, "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 actuate," in an interview with Variety in 2020. Swank also stated that had she been offered the role today, she would have declined it.
For the role of a female boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film Million Dollar Baby, Swank underwent rigorous training in the ring and the weight room with the help of expert trainer Grant L. Roberts, adding 19 pounds of muscle. Swank once more won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. With her second Oscar, she became one of just three actresses—along with Vivien Leigh, Sally Field, and Luise Rainer—to get nominations for Best Actress at the Academy Awards twice and take home the prize each time. She stated after receiving her second Oscar, "I'm not sure what I did in my previous life to earn this. I'm merely a young woman from a mobile home park with a dream."
For the role of a female boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film Million Dollar Baby, Swank underwent rigorous training in the ring and the weight room with the help of expert trainer Grant L. Roberts, adding 19 pounds of muscle. Swank once more won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. With her second Oscar, she became one of just three actresses—along with Vivien Leigh, Sally Field, and Luise Rainer—to get nominations for Best Actress at the Academy Awards twice and take home the prize each time. She stated after receiving her second Oscar, "I'm not sure what I did in my previous life to earn this. I'm merely a young woman from a mobile home park with a dream."
Swank then played a skeptic of religious events in the horror movie The Reaping (2007). Swank persuaded the filmmakers to relocate the action from New England to the Deep South, and Hurricane Katrina occurred as the movie was being filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She also starred alongside Gerard Butler in the drama P.S. I Love You that same year.
In the 2009 biopic Amelia, which she also co-executively produced under 2S Films, a production company she co-founded with producer Molly Smith, Swank played the pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart. Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs by Caroline Knapp was recorded by Swank and made available as an audiobook on Audible.com in 2012.
She co-starred in the 2013 television movie Mary and Martha alongside Brenda Blethyn. In the 2014 film You're Not You, Swank portrayed Kate Parker, a woman whose life is upended when she is diagnosed with the degenerative disease ALS. Josh Duhamel and Emmy Rossum both appeared in the movie. She was named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2015.
Alongside Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig, she played Special Agent Sarah Grayson in Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky in 2017. She also played lawyer Colette Hughes in Bille August's thriller 55 Steps. The Elizabeth Chomko-directed drama film What They Had about Alzheimer's illness stars Swank, who also served as executive producer. She portrays Gail Getty in the first season of the FX anthology series Trust, which was also in 2018. According to rumors, Alejandro González Iárritu's drama series The One Percent will feature Swank as Laura Murphy.
Swank was chosen to star alongside Betty Gilpin in the suspenseful movie The Hunt in July 2019. The movie's narrative, which involves a fatal conflict between political liberals and conservatives, generated controversy before to its release, and Universal decided to postpone the release from its initial date of September 2019. Swank responded to the predicament by saying, "No one has seen the movie.
Without knowing what it's about, you can't truly have a conversation about it. In 2020, the movie was released to mediocre reviews. Swank played the astronaut Emma in the Netflix science drama series Away, which was canceled after one season, in September 2020. Swank received a total of three nominations for The Hunt and Away at the 2021 Critics' Choice Super Awards.
Hillary Swank Clothing line
Swank announced the debut of her high-end apparel line, Mission Statement, on October 18, 2016. With prices ranging from $125 to $1,150, the collection features sports bras, sweaters, skirts, bottoms, tops, and jackets constructed of eco-friendly technical fabrics.
Swank stated in an interview with DuJour that she wanted to design eco-friendly apparel without overt branding because "we believe in promoting the people wearing the outfits and not the brand itself." Suppliers who adhere to strict environmental regulations and environmentally friendly production methods are used by the company.
Hillary Swank Philanthropy
Swank was chosen in July 2007 to represent the Pantene Beautiful Lengths charity campaign in 2008 in a deal between the hair product company Pantene and the Women's Cancer Research Fund of the Entertainment Industry Foundation. In order to provide free wigs for women who have lost their hair as a result of cancer treatment, the campaign urged people to donate their healthy hair. Swank chopped her hair and donated it as part of Pantene's Million Inch Chain initiative.
Hillary Swank Animal Advocacy
2014's Fox's Cause for Paws: An All-Star Dog Special, which aired on Thanksgiving night, was hosted and co-produced by Swank. The program celebrated the bond between people and dogs and rescue canines. Swank was recognized for her animal welfare work in 2014 by The Petco Foundation, and the ASPCA awarded her the Compassion Award the following year.
Swank established the Hilaroo Foundation, a non-profit group, in 2015. Its mission is to pair rescue canines with at-risk youths in an effort to help both parties rehabilitate. She was motivated to start the organization after saving a dog in South Africa by the name of Karoo.
Hillary Swank Net Worth
Through Swink's career as an Actress and Producer, she has been able to accumulate a net worth that ranges from $1 million to $5 million.
Hillary Swank Salary
Through his career as a producer and anchor, she earns an estimated salary ranging between $10,000-$90,000.
