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  Ludington Daily News - Found 22 hours ago Along with Sorbo, the all-star cast includes Kristy Swanson (?Buffy the Vampire Slayer?), John Ratzenberger (?Cheers? and every Pixar...

• Getting my 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' fix

  Detroit News - Found Jul. 3, 2009 ... is some buzz floating around about a new 'Buffy' movie from the same producers who brought us Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry fighting vamps...

• 'What If' direct-to-DVD movie filming in Manistee, Grand Rapids

  Michigan Live - Found Jul. 2, 2009 'What If' also stars Kristy Swanson of the original 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' film, and Debby Ryan of the Disney Channel's 'The Suite Life on...

• ?Buffy? returns to the big screen

  Examiner.com - Found Jun. 26, 2009 The Buffy saga began with the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Kristy Swanson and Donald Sutherland (yes, Donald Sutherland).

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  Hartwell Sun - Found Jul. 1, 2009 Editor, In response to the letter from Kristy Swanson in the June 25th issue, I would like to defend Mark Hynds and The Hartwell Sun. While I

• 'What If' direct-to-DVD movie filming in Manistee, Grand Rapids

  Grand Rapids Press - Found Jul. 1, 2009 'What If' also stars Kristy Swanson of the original 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' film, and Debby Ryan of the Disney Channel's 'The Suite Life on...

• Fox Not Yet Cast in 'Buffy' Movie

  Hollywood - Found Jun. 14, 2009 ... most famously played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, was originally brought to cinemas in the 1992 movie of the same name, starring Kristy Swanson. Casual Sundays: Get Megan Fox's Transformed Look - EOnline.com Robot welcomes Transformers stars - Metro.co.uk I Am Truly Sorry for Being Late: ?Transformers? Director - Korea Times Megan Fox: I'd consider a Brit - The Sun Explore All

• Fox not yet cast in Buffy movie

  Jam! Showbiz Movies - Found Jun. 15, 2009 ... most famously played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, was originally brought to cinemas in the 1992 movie of the same name, starring Kristy Swanson. Megan Fox not the new Buffy The Vampire Slayer, say producers - Malaysia Sun Explore All

• A new Buffy without SMG or Joss Whedon! Um, no thanks, I'll pass

  Miramichi Leader Online - Found Jun. 26, 2009 ... of a transitioning the story into a movie (and they don't mean a sequel to the original Buffy movie starring Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry).

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Kristy Swanson
Kristy Swanson signing autographs outside the Directors Guild of America, Hollywood, before the premier of the animated film Fly Me to the Moon on August 3, 2008. Photograph by Universe Today writer Ian O'Neill.
Born	Kristen Noel Swanson December 19, 1969 (1969-12-19) (age 39) Mission Viejo, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1982 ─ present

Kristen Nöel "Kristy" Swanson (born December 19, 1969) is an American actress best known as the original Buffy Summers in Joss Whedon's 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life 3 Filmography 4 Awards and nominations 5 References 6 External links

Career

Swanson started in TV advertising roles, and went on to make 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 from 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), her first starring role in a TV series, although it only lasted a season, and a shortlived Burt Reynolds vehicle called B.L. Stryker (1989).

Throughout the '90s, 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, that of 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 90's.

In the 1998-1999 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. It was cancelled after 5 episodes.

After refusing for years to do nude scenes during her film career, Swanson posed nude for Playboy magazine in November 2002 in a popular pictorial that featured highly erotic full frontal nudity. 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 NBC Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode "Bombshell". She portrayed a thinly veiled fictionalization of Anna Nicole Smith (called Lorelei Mailer) - a former nude model turned reality TV star battling for the fortune of her deceased 92 year old husband whose teenage son dies shortly after the birth of her daughter.

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.

She is currently filming the film What If..., co-starring Kevin Sorbo and Debby Ryan, scheduled for a 2010 Valentine's Day DVD release.

Personal life

Swanson was born in Mission Viejo, California, the daughter of physical education teachers Rosemary and Robert Swanson.¹ She has Swedish ancestry.²

Swanson has dated actors Alan Thicke and David Spade in the past. Swanson and her Skating with Celebrities partner, Lloyd Eisler, began dating in December 2005, while he was still married to his first wife, Marcia O’Brien. The couple welcomed their first child, a son named Magnus, together on February 16, 2007.³ Swanson and Eisler married on February 7, 2009 in San Luis Obispo.⁴

Filmography

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	What If...	Wendy
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	Conserned "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
1988	Nightingales	Becky Granger	TV movie
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

Series

Year	Series	Role	Episodes
2008	3Way	Leslie Lapdalulu	3 episodes
2007	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Lorelei Mailer	1 episode
2004	CSI: Miami	Roxanne Price	1 episode
2003	Just Shoot Me!	Allison Cavanaugh	1 episode
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	5 episodes
1987	Growing Pains	Rhonda	1 episode
1986	Valerie	Linda Perkins	1 episode
1986	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Female Student #2	1 episode
1985	Cagney & Lacey	Stephanie Brandon	1 episode
1985	Call to Glory		2 episodes
1984	It's Your Move	Laura	1 episode

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

External links

• Kristy Swanson - Official Site
• Kristy Swanson at the Internet Movie Database
• Kristy Swanson Interview on Fox News Radio

v • d • e Not Quite Human series Films Not Quite Human (1987) · Not Quite Human II (1989) · Still Not Quite Human (1992) Cast Jay Underwood (Chip Carson) · Alan Thicke (Dr. Jonas Carson) · Robyn Lively (Becky Carson) · Joseph Bologna (Gordon Vogel) · Robert Harper (J.J. Derks) · Kristy Swanson (Erin Jeffries) · Lili Haydn (Jenny Beckerman) · Brandon Douglas (Scott Barnes) · Sasha Mitchell (Bryan Skelly) · Lonny Price (Mr. Sturges) · Greg Mullavy (Dr. Phil Masters) · Katie Barberi (Roberta) · Dey Young (Prof. Victoria Gray) · Ty Miller (Austin, Bus Punk) · Eric Bruskotter (Rick, Bus Punk) · Christopher Neame (Dr. Frederick Berrigon) · Betsy Palmer (Aunt Mildred) · Veena Sood (Autograph Woman) Crew Alan Ormsby · Tom Scott · Eric Luke · John Debney · Ken Kirzinger Filming locations Coronado High School (Scottsdale, Arizona) · Arizona State University