FrameThrower · Actors · Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank
7 films · 395 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1992–2020
Born 30 July 1974 · Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Hilary Ann Swank is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series Camp Wilder and made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). She then had her breakthrough for starring as Julie Pierce in The Next Karate Kid (1994), the fourth installment of The Karate Kid franchise, and as Carly Reynolds on the eighth season of Beverly Hills, 90210 (1997–1998).
Swank came to international recognition for her performances as Brandon Teena, a transgender man, in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry (1999), and as Maggie Fitzgerald, an aspiring boxer, in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 395 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1992–2020
- Academy Award for Best Actress2005
- Academy Award for Best Actress2000
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama2004
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama1999
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- BBC 100 Women2015
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 395 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hilary takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Hilary takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 395 frames from Hilary Swank's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.