Kristy Swanson

Kristy Swanson

1969-12-19 Mission Viejo, California, USA 74 Credits

Biography

Kristen Noel Swanson (born December 19, 1969) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Buffy Summers in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Catherine "Cathy" Dollanganger in the movie version of the V.C. Andrews book Flowers in the Attic. She starred in several films, including Hot Shots! (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 Da...

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I Am Luke Perry

I Am Luke Perry

2025

as Self

8.0
Acting

Celebrating the life of a generational acting talent from humble roots who emerged from small-town obscurity to become a Hollywood heartthrob and a po...

Trail Blazers

Trail Blazers

2022

as Slayer

2.0
Acting

A band of siblings who were once robbers, thieves and killers of the west, decide to fulfill their fathers dying wish of abandoning their life of crim...

Just Another Dream

Just Another Dream

2022

as Cindy Miller

5.5
Acting

When a fateful injury sparks an ordinary girl to have foretelling dreams, she is forced into a race against time to save her family and prove her sani...

Courting Mom and Dad

Courting Mom and Dad

2021

as Sarah Lambert

4.0
Acting

Three children seek the help of an eccentric personal injury attorney in order to stop their parents' imminent divorce.

Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare

Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare

2021

as Joanna Riley

6.2
Acting

On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John ...

The ObamaGate Movie

The ObamaGate Movie

2020

as Lisa Page

4.0
Acting

The ObamaGate Movie is a verbatim play that was filmed “Hamilton style” in Los Angeles on the Comedy Central stage at the Hudson Theater. It stars Dea...

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

2020

as Marlowe Viccellio

7.0
Acting

After Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed and left for dead, Shawn and Gus return to help him and find themselves embroiled in a c...

FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers

2019

as Lisa Page

2.5
Acting

FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers is a groundbreaking new play based on the transcripts of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page’s secret text messages and their answer...

The Green Ribbon

The Green Ribbon

2019

as Samantha Pringle (archive footage)

5.0
Acting

Based off of the popular children’s story, Jenny always wears a green ribbon around her neck, and she has never taken it off. The second Alfred meets ...

PawParazzi

PawParazzi

2019

as Latte (voice)

5.0
Acting

London Bridges, a fast rising Hollywood starlet, with her pampered pomeranian Latte in tow, arrives on location for "There Will Be Oil" to see that sh...

Killer Under The Bed

Killer Under The Bed

2018

as Sarah

4.3
Acting

New to town, a bullied teenager discovers a doll, riddled with pins, in her backyard shed. She soon comes to believe that the doll holds supernatural ...

Mimesis: Nosferatu

Mimesis: Nosferatu

2018

as Max's Mother

4.0
Acting

When the Harker Arts Academy drama club produces a play based on the silent horror film Nosferatu (1922), reality and fiction collide, and blood begin...

Winter's Dream

Winter's Dream

2018

as Kat

5.8
Acting

Former professional skier Kat works as a ski aid and ski shop worker at Bliss Mountain, where she prepares for a Winterfest to drum up business for th...

Bad Stepmother

Bad Stepmother

2018

as Louise

4.5
Acting

Following the sudden and mysterious death of their father, a brother and sister return home to their sprawling New Orleans estate and encounter their ...

A Mother's Sacrifice

A Mother's Sacrifice

2017

as Kathrin

4.7
Acting

A mother fear that her daughter has been abducted when a phone call is interrupted by something suspicious

Crowning Jules

Crowning Jules

2017

as Victoria

7.3
Acting

To get to her Harvard admissions interview, a bright 17-year-old girl is forced to hitch a ride with her twin sister, who is headed to a beauty pagean...

Angels in the Snow

Angels in the Snow

2015

as Judith Montgomery

6.5
Acting

In Angels in the Snow, the affluent, yet troubled Montgomery family hits the road for a special Christmas in the mountains.

Driven Underground

Driven Underground

2015

as Sarah Palmer

7.5
Acting

Single mother Sarah Palmer hides her family in Oregon when her daughter Christy becomes a key witness in a murder against the mob.

Merry Ex-Mas

Merry Ex-Mas

2014

as Noëlle Rogers

3.6
Acting

When misleading photos are published of security company chief Jessie Rogers purportedly caught in a love nest with his rock star client, his humiliat...

A Belle for Christmas

A Belle for Christmas

2014

as Dani Downy

5.4
Acting

A boy and his little sister discover their new dog has been nabbed by their father's gold-digging girlfriend, and they recruit their friends to help t...

Beethoven's Treasure Tail

Beethoven's Treasure Tail

2014

as Anne Parker

5.7
Acting

After everyone's favorite St. Bernard gets fired from a movie, Beethoven begins the long journey home with his trainer, Eddie. On their way, they beco...

A Lesson in Romance

A Lesson in Romance

2014

as Megan Mills

6.1
Acting

A successful career Mom gets a case of empty nest syndrome when her children go off to college, and her husband decides to join them and follow his ow...

Little Women Big Cars 2

Little Women Big Cars 2

2014

as Rocky

1.5
Acting

The women of Cherry Branch Elementary are back and contemplating the idea of beauty. Barbara and AJ's exes, Richard and Doro spark a short lived roman...

Storm Rider

Storm Rider

2013

as Jody Peterson

6.4
Acting

When her father is put into jail, the spoiled teenager Dani loses everything. Forced to live with her uncle Sam on a farm without horses to ride and t...

The Bouquet

The Bouquet

2013

as Terri Benton

5.0
Acting

Two estranged sisters torn apart by their differences suddenly find themselves working together towards a common goal in this heartwarming drama...For...

Operation Cupcake

Operation Cupcake

2012

as Janet Carson

6.2
Acting

When Army Colonel Griff Carson (Dean Cain) returns home from Germany on a two-month leave, he considers retiring if he doesn't get promoted to General...

Little Women Big Cars

Little Women Big Cars

2012

as Rocky

2.0
Acting

Four soccer moms struggle to balance their busy schedules, family lives, and sanity: Meg, an overachieving people pleaser; Barbara, a recent divorcee;...

A Christmas Wish

A Christmas Wish

2011

as Martha Evans

5.9
Acting

MARTHA EVANS has been abandoned by her ne'er-do-well husband, who took all their cash and left her homeless and virtually destitute with her two daugh...

Chick Magnet

Chick Magnet

2011

as Kristy (uncredited)

3.9
Acting

When freeloader Phil is tossed out by the love of his life, Jen, he stays with two old friends who come upon a magic shirt that guarantees them sex wi...

Swamp Shark

Swamp Shark

2011

as Rachel McDaniel

4.0
Acting

Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer. Lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest. That night...

What if...

What if...

2010

as Wendy Walker

6.9
Acting

Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker made a decision to leave his college sweetheart and ultimately his faith, in order to pursue a lucrative business opport...

Forbidden Secrets

Forbidden Secrets

2007

as Alexandra Kent Lambeth

3.7
Acting

While going through a difficult divorce from her domineering, businessman husband, Alexandra moves back into her old childhood brownstone home, where ...

Living Death

Living Death

2006

as Elizabeth

4.0
Acting

Torture is the ultimate seduction when Victor, a powerful and dangerous millionaire, discovers that his beautiful wife Elizabeth (Kristy Swanson) is h...

The Black Hole

The Black Hole

2006

as Shannon Muir

4.5
Acting

It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, cl...

Bound by Lies

Bound by Lies

2005

as Laura Cross

3.5
Acting

When Detecive Max Garrett is assigned to protect the sultry photographer Laura Cross from a ruthless killer, he has no idea what he's in for. The more...

Bound by Lies

Bound by Lies

2005

Executive Producer

3.5
Producing

When Detecive Max Garrett is assigned to protect the sultry photographer Laura Cross from a ruthless killer, he has no idea what he's in for. The more...

The Only Witness

The Only Witness

2003

as Dr. Julia Craig

3.8
Acting

After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.

Red Water

Red Water

2003

as Dr. Kelli Raymond

3.9
Acting

In the quiet waters of the Mississippi, body parts are being discovered. No one knows what is behind it all, until a huge man eating bull shark turns ...

Zebra Lounge

Zebra Lounge

2001

as Louise Bauer

4.4
Acting

Alan and Wendy Barnet have been married just long enough for the excitement to have gone out of their relationship, and they're looking for a way to p...

Soul Assassin

Soul Assassin

2001

as Tessa Jansen

4.8
Acting

A security agent at an investment bank uncovers espionage that is linked to his girlfriend's murder. He vows to seek revenge on those responsible.

Dude, Where's My Car?

Dude, Where's My Car?

2000

as Christie Boner

5.5
Acting

Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.

Meeting Daddy

Meeting Daddy

2000

as Laurel Lee

2.0
Acting

An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.

Big Daddy

Big Daddy

1999

as Vanessa

6.5
Acting

A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.

Supreme Sanction

Supreme Sanction

1999

as Jenna

5.2
Acting

An elite assassin for a covert Government agency is marked for death after aborting an assignment to take out a journalist who could expose the corrup...

Ground Control

Ground Control

1998

as Julie Albrecht

5.6
Acting

An air-traffic controller quits after a plane crash but, years later, goes to help an airport that is in the path of a terrible storm.

Bad to the Bone

Bad to the Bone

1997

as Francesca Wells

5.1
Acting

A murderous sociopath (and former battered child) uses her naive younger brother in a scheme to do away with her inconvenient lover.

Lover Girl

Lover Girl

1997

as Darlene Ferrari / 'Sherry'

5.3
Acting

Jake is a 16-year-old girl whose mother left her. She finds her older sister Darlene in L.A., but Darlene turns her away. Darlene's neighbor Marci tak...

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag

1997

as Laurie

5.0
Acting

Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some ...

Tinseltown

Tinseltown

1997

as Nikki Randall

3.0
Acting

In Hollywood it's all about who you know, and the only person two friends know is a serial killer.

The Phantom

The Phantom

1996

as Diana Palmer

5.3
Acting

The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls tha...

Marshal Law

Marshal Law

1996

as Lilly Nelson

4.0
Acting

A former cop in Texas comes into action when a gang threatens his family.

The Phantom: The Man, the Myth, the Legend

1996

as Self

Acting

HBO First Look's episode on The Phantom

Higher Learning

Higher Learning

1995

as Kristen Connor

6.3
Acting

African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will ...

Getting In

Getting In

1994

as Kirby Watts

5.3
Acting

Gabriel Higgs has failed to get into Johns Hopkins to study medicine. He's sixth on a list of backup candidates, and must persuade the five people ahe...

The Chase

The Chase

1994

as Natalie Voss

5.8
Acting

Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. ...

The Program

The Program

1993

as Camille Shafer

6.4
Acting

Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure diff...

The Chili Con Carne Club

The Chili Con Carne Club

1993

Acting

When Pete Connely is dumped by his girlfriend, he is sentenced to a surrealistic, male-bonding prison known as The Chili Con Carne Club. Features Mel ...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1992

as Buffy Summers

5.6
Acting

Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill va...

Highway to Hell

Highway to Hell

1991

as Rachel Clark

5.9
Acting

Charlie and Rachel run away from home to get married in Las Vegas. But they get attacked by a zombie who takes Rachel with him to hell, where she will...

Hot Shots!

Hot Shots!

1991

as Kowalski

6.6
Acting

The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only ...

Mannequin Two: On the Move

Mannequin Two: On the Move

1991

as Jessie

5.8
Acting

Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil...

Diving In

Diving In

1990

as Terry Hopkins

2.6
Acting

A high school diver fights his fear of heights and diving to get onto the team. He gets onto the team, only to find that he must dive the high platfor...

Dream Trap

Dream Trap

1990

as Sue Halloran

4.0
Acting

This boisterous comedy, set against the backdrop of college life, proves that every fantasy has a catch.

Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz

Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz

1988

as Teenage Heidi Abromowitz (uncredited)

Acting

Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.

Nightingales

Nightingales

1988

as Becky

Acting

"Nightingales" are eight student nurses living off campus in Southern California in this stylish Aaron Spelling production that ultimately was develop...

Juarez

1988

as Cathy Dodge

Acting

Pilot series about a Mexican-American sheriff's detective living in El Paso.Pilot series about a Mexican-American sheriff's detective living in El Pas...

Flowers in the Attic

Flowers in the Attic

1987

as Cathy Dollanganger

6.3
Acting

After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kep...

Not Quite Human

Not Quite Human

1987

as Eron Jeffries

5.4
Acting

Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android co...

Deadly Friend

Deadly Friend

1986

as Samantha

6.1
Acting

When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technology beyond...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

1986

as Economics Student - Simone Adamley

7.6
Acting

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures througho...

Mr. Boogedy

Mr. Boogedy

1986

as Jennifer Davis

6.3
Acting

A novelty-salesman moves his family into a new house. Initially dismissing incidents as more of their father's practical jokes, the family soon learns...

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

1986

as Stephanie Gamble

Acting

A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.

Pretty in Pink

Pretty in Pink

1986

as Duckette

6.7
Acting

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, wh...

Reapers Night

Reapers Night

N/A

as Ginger

Acting

A group of paranormal specialists adventure into a long-deserted refuge with a famous standing for its dim and curved history. As the night advances, ...