Kristy Swanson Bio, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Movies, TV Shows

Kristy Swanson Biography

Kristy Swanson (Kristen Noel Swanson) is an American actress, well known for her cult film Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1992. Kristy’s career began by appearing in several teen films, including Pretty in Pink in 1986 and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986. In 1986 Kristy had her first starring role in Wes Craven’s horror film Deadly Friend, then she was portrayed Catherine “Cathy” Dollanganger in the film adaptation of V.C. Andrews’s Flowers in the Attic 1987.

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Kristy Swanson Age

Kristy Swanson was born in December 19, 1969 in Mission Viejo, California, U.S. She is 49 years.

Kristy Swanson Net Worth

Kristy Swanson has an approximated net worth of $5 million dollars.

Kristy Swanson And Husband

Kristy had an extramarital affair with Lloyd Eisler while Eisler was still married. Kristy married Lloyd Eisler on February 7, 2009 in San Luis Obispo, California. Eisler is also Kristens’ son father. Their son is called Magnus Hart Swanson Eisler born on February 16, 2007, just one month after Lloyd Eisler divorced his ex wife Marcia O’Brein.
In 1986, when Kristy was 17 years old, Kristy began dating actor Alan Thicke and became engaged to him. When Kristy was 19, Alan Thicke was 42 years. However, they never married.Kristy Swanson Photo

Kristy Swanson Career

Kristy expressed interest in acting to her parents, at the age of nine and began pursuing roles in television commercials. She appearing in a doll house commercial as her first job, which was followed with several more commercial appearances.
After beginning her acting career at The Actors Workshop with R.J. Adams, Kristy promptly moved into TV advertising roles and several one-off appearances in TV series such as Cagney and Lacey and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Kristy debuted on the big screen in two John Hughes films of 1986: Pretty In Pink, in a non-speaking role and as a character who announces a convoluted excuse for Ferris’ absence in class on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. In 1986, in Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend as Samantha in the girl next door, Kristy had her first starring role. Kristy played Cathy in the adaptation of V. C. Andrews’ best-seller Flowers in the Attic in 1987.
In a 2015 television interview Kristy revealed how she was cast in Pretty In Pink. John Hughes the writer asked her whether she could play part and end up with the main character Ducky. Kristy had made many television appearances by 1990, including multiple appearances in Knots Landing between 1987–1988, Nightingales in 1989, her first starring role in a TV series, which lasted a season. In 1989 a short-lived Burt Reynolds television series called B.L. Stryker.
Kristy starred mostly in films throughout the 1990s. In 1992 Kristy played the title role in movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kristy played her most critical role, as Kristen Connor, a student discovering her sexuality, in John Singleton’s Higher Learning. Having appeared in movies such as Hot Shots!, The Program, The Chase doing both starring and supporting roles, Kristy with Joe Pesci also appeared in the film adaptation of the comic-book The Phantom and the dark comedy 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag. In the late 1990s, Kristy moved to TV work since most of these films failed at the box office.
Kristy played Erica Paget, a love interest of the main character, Gary Hobson in the 1998–99 season of Early Edition. Kristy also played Vanessa, the girlfriend of Adam Sandler in the movie Big Daddy in 1999. Kristy returned to a television series in 2000, as the star of Grapevine, a revamp of a 1992 TV series that was canceled after five episodes.
In November 2002, Kristy posed nude for Playboy magazine in a cover-featured pictorial. In 2006 Kristen appeared in and won the Fox television program Skating with Celebrities, partnered with Lloyd Eisler. Kristy featured in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode “Bombshell”, playing a fictionalized variation on Anna Nicole Smith on May 8, 2007.
Kristy became a spokesperson of the Medifast diet n 2007. In 2008, Kristy guest-starred in three episodes of the lesbian web series 3Way. Kristy first theatrical film in 10 years was filmed in July 2009: What If… co-starring Kevin Sorbo and Debby Ryan, which was released on August 20, 2010.
In February 1, 2010, Kristy made a cameo appearance in the “Don’t You Forget About Me” episode of One Tree Hill, which was a homage episode to John Hughes. Kristy was cast in the lead role in Hallmark Channel original movie Winter’s Dream along with other TV projects in 2018. Kristy is featured in the Hallmark Christmas movie: A Christmas Wish in 2011.

Kristy Swanson Buffy

In 1992, Kristy Swanson was starring in Buffy the Vampire Slayer an American comedy horror film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui. It involves a girl named Buffy who learns that hunting vampires is her fate. It was quite a success at the box office but received mixed reception from critics. However it was taken in a different direction from the one its writer Joss Whedon intended resulting to creation of the darker and acclaimed TV series of the same name five years later.

Kristy Swanson Christmas Wish

Kristy Swanson plays role of Martha Evans who finds herself homeless with her two young daughters and stepson just a week before Christmas. Kristy puts her trust in a new town full of friendly strangers and prays for the best.
Martha’s husband, Cal (Bart Johnson), has left her, leaving her bank account empty and disappearing without a word. Hopelessly, she moves into a motel of a sleepy town and begs the owner of the local diner, Trudy (Tess Harper), to hire her as a waitress. Trudy decides to help Martha and her children. Martha finds her faith just being restored as she begins to meet more of the locals, including handsome sheriff Joe (K.C. Clyde), perky teenage babysitter Jeanie (Danielle Chuchran) and grumpy but warm-hearted diner regular Les (Edward Herrmann) until Cal returns.

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Kristy Swanson Awards And Nominations

• Kristen won the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Horror or Mystery Motion Picture – Flowers In The Attic in 1989
• Kristen was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Female Superstar in Motion Pictures – Deadly Friend in 1988
• Kristen was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Exceptional Young Actress Starring in a Television Special or Movie of the Week – Mr. Boogedy in 1987
• Kristen was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress – Guest in a Television Series – Cagney & Lacey episode “On The Street” in 1986

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