Kristy Swanson

Swanson also starred in several films, including Hot Shots! (1991), Mannequin Two: On the Move (1991), The Program (1993), The Chase (1994), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), Big Daddy (1999), and Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), and appeared in Pretty in Pink (1986) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).

• Name — Kristy Swanson • Born — 19 December 1969 • Birthplace — Laguna Beach, California, U.S. • Known for — * Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Flowers in the Attic • Ferris Bueller's Day Off • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1984–present • Children — 1

Swanson was born in South Laguna, California at the South Coast Community Hospital and was raised in Mission Viejo, California by her parents Rosemary Albrecht and Robert Russell Swanson, a high school teacher. At the age of nine, she expressed interest in acting to her parents, and began pursuing roles in television commercials. She landed her first job appearing in a doll house commercial, which was followed with several more commercial appearances.

Swanson began her acting 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 & 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's 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 Flowers in the Attic, an adaptation of V. C. Andrews' bestselling novel. Swanson described how she was cast in Pretty in Pink: "[Writer] John Hughes said, 'We're re-shooting the end of Pretty in Pink. I was wondering if you would come be in this scene with our main character, Ducky, because the way we tested it in the movie theater, it didn't work. We need him to end up with somebody else at the end of the movie. So would you play the part?'" By 1990, Swanson had made many television appearances, including multiple appearances in Knots Landing (1987–1988), Nightingales (1989), her first starring role in a television series, although it only lasted a season, and a short-lived Burt Reynolds television series called B.L. Stryker (1989). Throughout the 1990s, she starred mostly in films. She played the title role in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although not a hit at the box office originally, it had a profitable rental life. She appeared in both starring and supporting roles in films such as Hot Shots!, The Program, The Chase, and her most critically acclaimed role, playing 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 television work in the late 1990s. In the 1998–99 season of Early Edition, Swanson played Erica Paget, a love interest of the main character, Gary Hobson. In 1999, Swanson played Vanessa, the ex-girlfriend of Adam Sandler in the film Big Daddy. In 2000, she returned to a television series, as the star of Grapevine, a revamp of a 1992 TV series that was canceled after five episodes. The same year, she starred in the successful film Dude, Where's My Car?, alongside Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott and Jennifer Garner. Swanson posed nude for Playboy magazine in November 2002 in a cover-featured pictorial. She appeared in and won in the 2006 Fox television program Skating with Celebrities, partnered with Lloyd Eisler. In 2007, she became a spokesperson of the Medifast diet. In the following year, she guest-starred in three episodes of the lesbian web series 3Way. In the same year, she appeared in an episode Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2021, a release date of June 15 was announced for Swanson's recent feature and a Jennifer Nichole Lee and Paul Schneider collaboration, Just Another Dream. She co-starred alongside long-time friend Dean Cain.

Swanson married her Skating with Celebrities partner Lloyd Eisler in 2009. They have a son, and two children from his previous marriage. Swanson has described herself as "a proud republican" and "#MAGA since 1969". She co-starred with Dean Cain in a pro-Trump stage play titled FBI Lovebirds: Undercovers directed by conservative filmmaker Phelim McAleer. Swanson has said that she received death threats as a result.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1984 — It's Your Move — Laura — Episode: "Love Letters" • 1985 — Call to Glory — Sally — Episodes: "JFK: Parts 1 & 2" • Cagney & Lacey — Stephanie Brandon — Episode: "On the Street" • 1986 — Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Female Student #2 — Episode: "The Gloating Place" • Disneyland — Jennifer Davis — Episode: "Mr. Boogedy" • The — Linda Perkins — Episode: "The Big Fix-Up" • 1987 — Growing Pains — Rhonda — Episode: "Thank God It's Friday" • 1987–1988 — Knots Landing — Jody Campbell — Recurring Cast: Season 9 • 1988 — Ohara — Jennifer Collins — Episode: "X" • 1989 — Nightingales — Rebecca "Becky" Granger — Main Cast • B.L. Stryker — Lynn Ellingsworth — Recurring Cast: Season 1 • 1998–1999 — Early Edition — Erica Paget — Main Cast: Season 3 • 1999 — The Directors — Herself — Episode: "The Films of Wes Craven" • 2000 — Grapevine — Susan Crawford — Main Cast • 2002 — Backstory — Herself — Episode: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" • I Love the '80s — Herself — Episode: "1986" • 2003 — The Christopher Lowell Show — Herself — Episode: "Small Spaces" • Just Shoot Me! — Allison Cavanaugh — Episode: "There's Something About Allison" • 2004 — CSI: Miami — Roxanne Price — Episode: "Complications" • 2006 — Skating with Celebrities — Herself — Main Cast • 2007 — Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Lorelai Mailer — Episode: "Bombshell" • 2008 — 3Way — Leslie Lapdalulu — Recurring Cast • 2009 — Whatever Happened To? — Herself — Episode: "Unlikely Heroes" • Hell's Kitchen — Herself — Guest Cast: Season 5-6 • American Chopper — Herself — Episode: "Iraq Star Foundation Bike" • 2010 — One Tree Hill — Woman in Car — Episode: "Don't You Forget About Me". • 2011 — Comedy Central Roast — Herself — Episode: "Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen" • 2011–2014 — Psych — Marlowe Viccellio — Recurring Cast: Season 6-8 • 2012 — unCONventional — Herself — Recurring Cast • 2018 — Gutfeld! — Herself/Guest Panelist — Episode: "August 4, 2018" • 2019 — SEAL Team — Julia Logan — Recurring Cast: Season 4 • 2022 — Sons of Thunder — Linda Gibson — Main Cast: Season 2

• Year — Song — Artist — Role • 1992 — "Keep It Comin' (Dance Till You Can't Dance No More)" — C+C Music Factory featuring Q-Unique and Deborah Cooper — Buffy Summers • 2017 — "Yours If You Want It" — Rascal Flatts — Stacy

Kristy Swanson was recorded at birth as Kristen Noel Swanson. The authorities additionally record the headings Kristen Noel Swanson, Kristen N. Swanson, Kristy Eisler and Kristen Nöel Swanson. Her recorded language was English. She married Lloyd Eisler.