Swanson played Susan Crawford, a cruise-line executive who meddles in everyone's business before coming to realize that she's madly in love with a college pal (played by Steven Eckholdt). She was back as a series regular in CBS' fluffy midseason comedy "Grapevine" (2000), a reworking of a series that had run briefly in 1992. She received some of her best feature exposure to date as Adam Sandler's girlfriend in the commercial blockbuster "Big Daddy" (1999). The film spawned an eventual sequel, but. 1998 saw her play a gossipy Southern socialite in the feature "Meeting Daddy," and she also returned to series TV, joining the cast of CBS' "Early Edition" for the 1998-99 season as Kyle Chandler's love interest. Released in 1991, 'Hot Shots' was a spoof of 'Top Gun,' starring Charlie Sheen as a cocky Tom Cruise stand-in, and Cary Elwes in the Val Kilmer role. In an attempt to dispel her "girl next door" image, Swanson starred as the devastatingly beautiful and seductive sociopath Francesca Wells in the ABC movie "Bad to the Bone" (1997). 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. 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. Young, Cary Elwes, Charlie Sheen, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Heidi Swedberg, Jon Cryer, Kevin Dunn, Kristy Swanson, Lloyd Bridges, Mark Arnott, Rino Thunder, Ryan. But fans discovered its young star when the picture became a hot video rental, helping to spawn the highly successful TV series version. Pee-wee Herman), future Oscar-winner Hilary Swank and Rutger Hauer, the film failed to perform at the box office. Despite her engaging, exuberant performance and quirky turns from the likes of Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Her career received a big boost, albeit delayed, as the Valley Girl title character of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1992). 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. She had her first shot at series stardom portraying student nurse Rebecca Halliday in the short-lived Aaron Spelling-produced "Nightingales" (NBC, 1989). Stryker" (aired under the umbrella of "The ABC Mystery Movie"). In 1986, she made her feature debut in the John Hughes-produced "Pretty in Pink" and also appeared in Hughes' "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" before essaying her first lead as the girl next door brought back to life a la Frankenstein in Wes Craven's "Deadly Friend." After landing a key role in the film version of V C Andrews' classic horror novel "Flowers in the Attic" (1987), Swanson segued to TV, playing the recurring part of Jody Campbell on "Knots Landing" (CBS) during the 1987-88 season, followed by turns as Lynn Ellingsworth in two 1989 installments of "B.L. In 2007 she gave birth to a son, Magnus Hart Swanson, and in 2009 she married his father, Lloyd Eisler, who had been her partner on "Skating with Celebrities" Fox'sĪnswer to ABC's popular "Dancing with the Stars" series.An athletic, appealing performer who decided at the age of nine that she wanted to be an actress, Kristy Swanson had racked up some 30 TV commercial credits by the age of 15. She made the cover of Playboy and was featured an 8-page celebrity spread (November 2002). Life after "Buffy" (which co-starred 1973 CalArts grad Paul Reubens) included both starring and supporting film roles in the 1990s, and occasional TV appearances throughout the next decade. Her big-screen debut came in 1986 with a non-speaking part in "Pretty in Pink" and a speaking role in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (her first of three filmsīy her first starring film role that same year in Wes Craven's "Deadly Friend." 19, 1969, in Mission Viejo (as Kristen Nöel Swanson), Kristy started her career at The Actors Workshop and landed advertising roles and television appearances. Santa Clarita resident Kristy Swanson is probably best known for her title role in the original 1992 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie.īorn Dec.
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