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Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is a US actress and producer. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007. Swank made her film debut in a minor role for ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', before she made her breakout lead role in the fourth installment of the ''The Karate Kid'' franchise, ''The Next Karate Kid'' in 1994. On television, she was cast as part of the main cast in the eighth season of the drama series ''Beverly Hills 90210'' as single mother Carly Reynolds from 1997 to 1998. Swank garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in the 1999 biographical independent film ''Boys Don't Cry'', which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She starred in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama film ''Million Dollar Baby'' as struggling-waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald, which won her a second Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actress. She starred in other films, such as ''The Gift'' (2000), ''Insomnia'' (2002), ''Iron Jawed Angels'' (2004), ''Red Dust'' (2004) ''The Reaping'' (2007), ''P.S. I Love You'' (2007), ''Freedom Writers'' (2007), ''Amelia'' (2009), ''New Year's Eve'' (2011), ''The Homesman'' (2014) and ''You're Not You'' (2014). ==Early life== Swank was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.〔 Her mother, Judy Kay (née Clough),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hilary Swank )〕 was a secretary and dancer, and her father, Stephen Michael Swank, was a Chief Master Sergeant in the Oregon Air National Guard and later a traveling salesman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hilary Swank Biography (1974–) )〕 She has a brother Daniel, who is eight years her senior.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher= Yahoo! Inc. )〕 Many of Swank's family members are from Ringgold County, Iowa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Senate Resolution 16 – Introduced )〕 Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Dominguez, was of Mexican (Spanish and Native American) descent, while Hilary's paternal grandmother was born in England; Hilary's roots also include German, other English, Swiss-German, Scottish, Scots-Irish, Welsh, and Dutch ancestry.〔http://ethnicelebs.com/hilary-swank〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Interview )〕 The surname "Swank", originally "Schwenk", is of German origin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Swank Family )〕 After living in Spokane, Washington, Swank's family moved to a trailer park near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington, when Swank was six. She attended Happy Valley Elementary, Fairhaven Middle, then Sehome High School in Bellingham until she was sixteen.〔〔 Biography spreads across 9 web pages. High School information is on page 2.〕 She also competed in the Junior Olympics and the Washington state championships in swimming, and she ranked fifth in the state in all-around gymnastics. Swank made her first appearance on stage when she was nine years old, starring in ''The Jungle Book''.〔 She became involved in school and community theater programs, including those of the Bellingham Theatre Guild and The Seattle Children's Theater. When she was fifteen, her parents separated, and she and her mother, supportive of her daughter's desire to act, moved to Los Angeles, where they lived out of their car until Swank's mother saved enough money to rent an apartment.〔 Swank has called her mother the inspiration for her acting career and her life. In California, Swank enrolled in South Pasadena High School, dropping out later. She described her time at South Pasadena High School: “I felt like such an outsider. I didn't feel like I fit in. I didn't belong in any way. I didn't even feel like the teachers wanted me there. I just felt like I wasn't seen or understood.”〔 She explained her becoming an actor out of feeling as an outsider: “As a kid I felt that I belonged only when I read a book or saw a movie, and could get involved with a character. It was natural that I became an actor because I longed so much to be those other people, or at least to play them”. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hilary Swank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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