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Hilary Swank: Acting
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Hilary Swank is an Oscar and Golden Globe winner. Enough said. Her audacious and riveting performance in the independent feature Boys Don't Cry shocked critics for the amount of raw emotion she brought to the character of Teena Brandon, a lesbian who transforms herself into a man under the name Brandon Teena, in order to gain acceptance in conservative rural Nebraska.
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Hilary Swank cast to play Amelia Earhart. Hilary Swank is starring as Amelia Earhart in Amelia, a biopic about the pioneering aviator that Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) is directing from a script by Ron Bass (Entrapment). Earhart became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross medal after she flew across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.
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Like a streetwalker with a broken toe, Hilary Swank hobbles across the concrete floor in a pair of five-inch gold-leather pumps. The studio is darkish and the music is blaring; there is a smell of fresh paint and hair spray and food service in the air, along with the rich aroma of roasted coffee, the handiwork of the authentic Italian barista who is stationed in the vaulted lobby. ...read more
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Hilary Swank [T]akes 45 vitamin supplements every day (and don’t even get her started on her daily vitamin injections). In the new issue of W magazine, the two-time Oscar winner ticks off her daily regimen like she’s reciting the alphabet.
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Like her character, Maggie Fitzgerald, Swank grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Wash. Much of her childhood time was split between performing in school plays and competitive swimming. By 15, she had settled on acting, not athletics.
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Swank's character is blind-sided by a vicious opponent, and ends up paralyzed. She decides she doesn't want to live that way, and asks Eastwood's character to help her die. After much agonizing, he does.
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