• Name: Hilary Swank
  
• Birth Name: Hilary Ann Swank
  
• Height: 5' 7"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: July 30, 1974
  
• Birth Place: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: South Pasadena High School in Pasadena, California
  
• Husband/Wife: Chad Lowe (actor; born on January 15, 1968; married on October 2, 1997)
  
• Claim to fame: as Teena Brandon in Boys Don't Cry (1999)
  

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• "One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you."
• "I feel that we’re all the same no matter who we choose to love."
• On Brandon Teena, whom she played in BOYS DON'T CRY: "I‘ve been very inspired from Brandon. He‘s changed my whole life. I‘ve also been inspired to live my dreams, to be myself and to live every moment. In society, everyone tells you what you should be and we‘re all trying to figure out who we are. Now I‘m living every moment fully. Brandon had a fuller life in those twenty-one years than a lot of people who live to be fifty. So I‘ve been lucky."
• On playing Brandon Teena in BOYS DON'T CRY: "It took about four weeks for me to detox from masculinity ... I felt like I had lost every ounce of my femininity and I honestly didn't know if I'd ever get it back."

• Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Florida Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Golden Satellite Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Independent Spirit Awards: Best Female Lead, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards: Sierra Award - Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards: Sierra Award - Most Promising Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Molodist International Film Festival: Festival Diploma - Best Full-Length Fiction Film, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Santa Fe Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• ShoWest Convention: ShoWest Award - Female Star of Tomorrow (2000)
• Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (2000)
• Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (1999)
• Chicago International Film Festival: Silver Hugo - Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (1999)
• Gijón International Film Festival: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (1999)
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (1999)
• National Board of Review: Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (1999)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (1999)
• Stockholm Film Festival: Best Actress, BOYS DON'T CRY (1999)
• Toronto Film Critics Association Awards: Best Performance, Female, BOYS DON'T CRY (1999)

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