Birth Name : Kristen Noel Swanson
Date of Birth : 19 December 1969, California, USA
Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Occupation : Actress
The blond beauty Kristy Swanson was born on December 19, 1969, in Mission Viejo, California to parents Bob and Rosemary Swanson. Kristy Swanson got bitten by the acting bug early in her life, at the tender age of 9 when she started doing commercials. When Kristy Swanson was teenager at the age of 13, she already had about 30 commercials on her belt and decided to give up regular schooling in order to concentrate on acting. Kristy Swanson was also 13 when she landed her first role in a television series in the Disney Channel, called Dreamfinders in 1983. Kristy Swanson then persuaded her parents to relocate to Hollywood so she could focus on working to be an actress.
When small screen stardom eluded her, Swanson once again returned to features as the female lead of "Mannequin 2: On the Move" (1991), but the choice to play a medieval peasant trapped in the body of a mannequin proved embarrassing. Her career received a big boost, albeit delayed, as the Valley Girl title character of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1992). Despite her engaging, exuberant performance and quirky turns from the likes of Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), future Oscar-winner Hilary Swank and Rutger Hauer, the film failed to perform at the box office. But fans discovered its young star when the picture became a hot video rental, helping to spawn the highly successful TV series version. She put her athleticism to good use as a calm, cool tennis star in "The Program" (1993) and starred as a millionaire's daughter taken hostage by an innocent man (Charlie Sheen) on the run in "The Chase" (1994), though director John Singleton showed her to better effect in that year's "Higher Learning", as a naive college freshman coming to terms with her burgeoning homosexuality. Swanson also snagged the female lead of Diana Palmer to Billy Zane's "The Phantom" (1996), in the tepid adventure thriller based on the popular comic strip but was outshone by villainess Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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