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Kristy Swanson 
Swanson signing autographs outside the Directors Guild of America, Hollywood, before the premiere of Fly Me to the Moon on August 3, 2008.Born Kristen Nöel Swanson
December 19, 1969
Mission Viejo, California,
United StatesOccupation Actress Years active 1982–present Spouse Lloyd Eisler (1 child) Kristen Nöel "Kristy" Swanson (born December 19, 1969) is an American actress best known for playing Buffy in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she also played Catherine "Cathy" Dollanganger in the movie version of the V.C. Andrews book Flowers in the Attic.
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Early life
Swanson was born in Mission Viejo, California, the daughter of physical education teachers Rosemary and Robert Swanson.[1] She has Swedish ancestry as the ancestral surname of her family was Svensson.[2]
Career
Swanson started her career at The Actors Workshop with R.J. Adams and promptly moved into TV advertising roles and several one-off appearances in TV series such as Cagney and Lacey and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1986, she debuted on the big screen in two John Hughes films: Pretty In Pink, in a non-speaking role, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off as a character who announces a convoluted excuse for Ferris' absence in class. Her first starring role was later in 1986, in Wes Craven's Deadly Friend as Samantha - "the girl next door." The next year she played Cathy in the adaptation of V. C. Andrews' best-seller Flowers in the Attic.
By 1990, Swanson had made many television appearances, including multiple appearances in Knots Landing (1987–1988), Nightingales (1989),[3] her first starring role in a TV series, although it only lasted a season, and a short-lived Burt Reynolds television series called B.L. Stryker (1989).
Throughout the 1990s, she centered mostly in films. She played the title role in the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was a box office bomb but had a profitable rental life. She appeared in both starring and supporting roles in movies such as Hot Shots!, The Program, The Chase, or her most critically acclaimed role as Kristen Connor, a student discovering her sexuality, in John Singleton's Higher Learning. She also appeared in the film adaptation of the comic-book The Phantom and the dark comedy 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag with Joe Pesci. Most of these films failed at the box office, and she reverted to TV work in the late 1990s.
In the 1998-9 season of Early Edition, Swanson played Erica Paget, a love interest of the main character, Gary Hobson. In 1999 Swanson played Vanessa, the girlfriend of Adam Sandler in the movie Big Daddy. In 2000, she returned to a television series, as the star of Grapevine, a revamp of a 1992 TV series that was cancelled after 5 episodes.
Swanson posed nude for Playboy magazine in November 2002 in a cover-featured pictorial. She appeared in and won the 2006 Fox television program Skating with Celebrities, partnered with Lloyd Eisler.
On May 8, 2007, Swanson appeared in the Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode "Bombshell", playing a fictionalized variation on Anna Nicole Smith.
In 2007, she became a spokesperson of the Medifast diet. In the following year, she guest-starred in 3 episodes of the lesbian web series 3Way.
In July 2009 she filmed What If..., co-starring Kevin Sorbo and Debby Ryan, released on August 20, 2010. It was her first theatrical film in 10 years.
Swanson made a cameo appearance in the "Don't You Forget About Me" episode of One Tree Hill, which aired on February 1, 2010. The episode was a homage to John Hughes; Swanson appeared in two films produced by him in the 1980s.
Personal life
Swanson began a relationship with her then married Skating with Celebrities partner Lloyd Eisler during the show's run. Swanson gave birth to a son named Magnus Hart Swanson Eisler on February 16, 2007, just one month after Lloyd's divorce from Marcia O'Brien was finalized.[4] Swanson married Eisler on February 7, 2009 in San Luis Obispo.[5] They currently live in Santa Clarita, California.[6]
Filmography
Films
Year Title Role Notes 2011 A Christmas Wish Martha Evans TV movie 2011 Chick Magnet Herself 2011 Swamp Shark Rachel Broussard TV movie 2010 What If... Wendy Walker 2009 The Closer Kaitlyn Short film 2006 Living Death Elizabeth Harris 2006 The Black Hole Shannon Muir TV movie 2005 Six Months Later Linda Short film 2005 Forbidden Secrets Alexandra Kent Lambeth TV movie 2005 Bound by Lies Laura Cross 2003 Silence Julia Craig 2003 Red Water Kelli Raymond TV movie 2001 Zebra Lounge Louise Bauer 2001 Soul Assassin Tessa Jansen 2000 Dude, Where's My Car? Christie Boner 2000 Meeting Daddy Laurel Lee 1999 Big Daddy Vanessa 1999 Supreme Sanction Jenna TV movie 1998 Pleasantville Concerned "Colored" Girl Uncredited 1998 Ground Control Julie Albrecht 1997 Bad to the Bone Francesca Wells TV movie 1997 Tinseltown Nikki Randall 1997 Lover Girl Darlene Ferrari 1997 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag Laurie Bennett 1996 Marshal Law Lilly Nelson TV movie 1996 The Phantom Diana Palmer 1995 Higher Learning Kristen Connor 1994 Getting In Kirby Watts 1994 The Chase Natalie Voss 1993 The Program Camille Shafer 1993 The Chili Con Carne Club Julie Short film 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy Summers 1992 Highway to Hell Rachel Clark 1991 Hot Shots! Kowalski 1991 Mannequin: On the Move Jessie 1990 Diving In Terry Hopkins 1990 Dream Trap Sue Halloran 1987 Flowers in the Attic Cathy Dollanganger 1987 Not Quite Human Erin Jeffries TV movie 1987 Juarez Cathy Dodge TV movie 1986 Deadly Friend Samantha Pringle 1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off Simone Adamley 1986 Mr. Boogedy Jennifer Davis TV movie 1986 Miracle of the Heart: A Boy's Town Story Stephanie Gamble TV movie 1986 Pretty in Pink Duckette Television series
Year Series Role Episodes 2011 Psych Marlowe Viccellio "This Episode Sucks" 2010 One Tree Hill Woman in car "Don't You Forget About Me" 2008 3Way Leslie Lapdalulu 3 episodes 2007 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Lorelei Mailer "Bombshell" 2004 CSI: Miami Roxanne Price "Complications" 2003 Just Shoot Me! Allison Cavanaugh "There's Something About Allison" 2000 Grapevine Susan Crawford 5 episodes 1998-99 Early Edition Erica Paget 20 episodes 1989 B.L. Stryker Lynn Ellingsworth 2 episodes 1989 Nightingales Becky Granger 13 episodes 1987-88 Knots Landing Jody Campbell 8 episodes 1987 Growing Pains Rhonda "Thank God It's Friday" 1986 Valerie Linda Perkins "The Big Fix-Up" 1986 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Female Student #2 "The Gloating Place" 1985 Cagney & Lacey Stephanie Brandon "On The Street" 1985 Call to Glory Sally 2 episodes 1984 It's Your Move Laura "Love Letters" Awards and nominations
Wins
- 1989: Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Horror or Mystery Motion Picture - Flowers In The Attic
Nominations
- 1988: Young Artist Award for Best Young Female Superstar in Motion Pictures - Deadly Friend
- 1987: Young Artist Award for Exceptional Young Actress Starring in a Television Special or Movie of the Week - Mr. Boogedy
- 1986: Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress - Guest in a Television Series - Cagney & Lacey episode "On The Street"
References
- ^ Kristy Swanson Biography (1969-)
- ^ http://www.hotmomsclub.com/articles/17216
- ^ Nightingales at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Kristy Swanson, Lloyd Eisler expecting a baby - Celebrities - MSNBC.com
- ^ Kristy Swanson and Lloyd Eisler Wed People.com, February 7, 2009
- ^ Michele E. Buttelman. "SCV’s ‘Buffy’ and the Olympian". http://the-signal.com/news/article/20872.
External links
Categories:- 1969 births
- Actors from California
- American film actors
- Living people
- Participants in American reality television series
- People from Orange County, California
- American people of Swedish descent
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