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- She appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) but The Next Karate Kid (1994), where she got the part competing against hundreds of other actresses, was her breakout role. Ever since then, she has been much in demand and has worked non-stop in movies. She won the Best Actress Oscar for playing "Brandon Teena" in Boys Don't Cry (1999).
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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. [17]
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Jul 26, 2024 · Hilary Swank is an American actress who won two best actress Academy Awards, both for roles that were considered uncommonly difficult and courageous—a young transgender man in Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and a female professional boxer in Million Dollar Baby (2004).
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She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1999, for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’. The same year, she was awarded The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best (Lead) Actress for the same role.
Feb 20, 2024 · Instead, Swank achieved overnight stardom at 25 when she won an Oscar for the biopic Boys Don’t Cry, in which she starred as Brandon Teena, a trans man who becomes the victim of a hate crime.
Jan 26, 2023 · Many actors come from working class backgrounds, but Hilary Swank's childhood and subsequent rise to fame is the stuff of fairytales. Swank grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
Dec 14, 2012 · Perhaps even her mother did not dream Hilary would win an Oscar, but she did, as best actress, for “Boys Don't Cry” (1999). She played a girl who tries to live as a boy, and who is killed when her secret is discovered.
Hilary was discovered as a child by producer Suzy Sachs, who coached her in acting. When she was nine years old, she starred in her first play as "Mowgli" in "The Jungle Book". She began to appear regularly in local theater and school plays.
