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Hilary Swank: Million Dollar Baby
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Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank proudly joins ALA’s Celebrity READ Poster series. This Nebraska-born actress moved to Los Angeles at the young age of 16 to pursue her dream of acting, and her hard work and dedication have paid off. In her latest film, Freedom Writers, Hilary plays a teacher who inspires at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue their education. She is best known for her award-winning roles in the films Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby.
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Hilary Swank won her second Oscar at the 77th Academy Awards for her portrayal of a female boxer in the Clint Eastwood movie, Million Dollar Baby. Clint Eastwood and the entire crew of his latest film project cleaned up at the Oscars. Hilary Swank picked up the Best Actress Oscar trophy, just before actor, director and producer Eastwood accepted awards for Best Director and Best Picture. Swank previously won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the 1999 film, Boy’s Don’t Cry, for which she only made $75 per day for her work, or about $3000. We’re guessing she commands… Read full article | Got any comments?
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Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid (1994), where she played Julie Pierce, the first female protégé of the sensei Mr. Miyagi. She has become known for her two Academy Award-winning performances: first as Brandon Teena, a transgender man in the movie Boys Don't Cry, and a struggling waitress-turned-boxer, Maggie Fitzgerald, in Million Dollar Baby.
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Now Hilary Swank is thirty-two. The lonely little tomboy who used to like to pass her time floating in a lake has won two Oscars for Best Actress. In Boys Don't Cry, she played Brandon Teena, a transgendered woman who attempts to live and love as a man and is killed for it. In Million Dollar Baby, she played Maggie Fitzgerald, a heavy-shouldered woman with a thumping right cross who dreams of becoming a professional boxer. Seeing her now at this photo shoot, wearing a little black sweater dress that clings to her every curve -- a dress that even she thinks looks killer on her; she will purchase it directly from the wardrobe woman before she leaves -- you think instead of Madeleine Linscott, the high-society vixen she played in The Black Dahlia, whose introductory scene, in a lesbian supper club in the late forties, in a black dress with a similar sort of breathless plunging neckline, is that movie's unrivaled highlight (though you might say the scene is stolen by the risque, Vegas-esque production number featuring a tuxedoed K.D. Lang singing "Love for Sale").
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Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. She is best known for her two Oscar-winning performances: a troubled transman, Brandon Teena, in the movie Boys Don't Cry, and a struggling waitress-turned-boxer, Maggie Fitzgerald, in Million Dollar Baby. Her film career in Hollywood began with a small part in Buffy the
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Hilary Swank, star of “Million Dollar Baby,” recently went to a CD store to buy some CDs with her 100 dollar gift certificate. Her total came to $99.58. Instead of leaving with her merchandise in a timely manner, she decided to hold up the line for her remaining $0.42 cents. According to Bang Show Biz,
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