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Hilary Swank: Personal life
Swank makes no secret of her humble beginnings, particularly as a child growing up near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington. After winning her second Best Actress Oscar, she said::I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.
She decided to pursue acting by the age of 16, dropping out of high school. She was still 15 when her parents separated, and her mother, supportive of her desire to act, moved the two of them to California, living in their car at first. Their homelessness did not last long; she soon got roles in television programs such as Evening Shade
, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
, and Growing Pains.
But even after winning her first Oscar, she was reminded of her humble roots. She had earned only $75/day for her work on
Boys Don't Cry, a total of $3000; her earnings were so low, that (according to an anecdote on 60 Minutes) she hadn't earned enough to qualify for health insurance. She was an Oscar winner, and had to pay the full cost when she had a prescription filled at her pharmacy.
She has been married to fellow actor
Chad Lowe since 1997.
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