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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Complete Filmography

I Am Luke Perry
2025
as Self
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
2022
as Slayer
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
2022
as Cindy Miller
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
2021
as Sarah Lambert
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
2021
as Joanna Riley
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
2020
as Lisa Page
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
2020
as Marlowe Viccellio
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
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
2019
as Samantha Pringle (archive footage)
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
2019
as Latte (voice)
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
2018
as Sarah
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
2018
as Max's Mother
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
2018
as Kat
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
2018
as Louise
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
2017
as Kathrin
A mother fear that her daughter has been abducted when a phone call is interrupted by something suspicious

Crowning Jules
2017
as Victoria
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
2015
as Judith Montgomery
In Angels in the Snow, the affluent, yet troubled Montgomery family hits the road for a special Christmas in the mountains.

Driven Underground
2015
as Sarah Palmer
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
2014
as Noëlle Rogers
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
2014
as Dani Downy
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
2014
as Anne Parker
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
2014
as Megan Mills
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
2014
as Rocky
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
2013
as Jody Peterson
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
2013
as Terri Benton
Two estranged sisters torn apart by their differences suddenly find themselves working together towards a common goal in this heartwarming drama...For...

Operation Cupcake
2012
as Janet Carson
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
2012
as Rocky
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
2011
as Martha Evans
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
2011
as Kristy (uncredited)
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
2011
as Rachel McDaniel
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...
2010
as Wendy Walker
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
2007
as Alexandra Kent Lambeth
While going through a difficult divorce from her domineering, businessman husband, Alexandra moves back into her old childhood brownstone home, where ...

Living Death
2006
as Elizabeth
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
2006
as Shannon Muir
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
2005
as Laura Cross
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
2005
Executive Producer
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
2003
as Dr. Julia Craig
After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.

Red Water
2003
as Dr. Kelli Raymond
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
2001
as Louise Bauer
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
2001
as Tessa Jansen
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?
2000
as Christie Boner
Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.

Meeting Daddy
2000
as Laurel Lee
An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.

Big Daddy
1999
as Vanessa
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
1999
as Jenna
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
1998
as Julie Albrecht
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
1997
as Francesca Wells
A murderous sociopath (and former battered child) uses her naive younger brother in a scheme to do away with her inconvenient lover.

Lover Girl
1997
as Darlene Ferrari / 'Sherry'
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
1997
as Laurie
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
1997
as Nikki Randall
In Hollywood it's all about who you know, and the only person two friends know is a serial killer.

The Phantom
1996
as Diana Palmer
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
1996
as Lilly Nelson
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
HBO First Look's episode on The Phantom

Higher Learning
1995
as Kristen Connor
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
1994
as Kirby Watts
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
1994
as Natalie Voss
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
1993
as Camille Shafer
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
1993
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
1992
as Buffy Summers
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
1991
as Rachel Clark
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!
1991
as Kowalski
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
1991
as Jessie
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
1990
as Terry Hopkins
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
1990
as Sue Halloran
This boisterous comedy, set against the backdrop of college life, proves that every fantasy has a catch.

Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
1988
as Teenage Heidi Abromowitz (uncredited)
Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.

Nightingales
1988
as Becky
"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
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
1987
as Cathy Dollanganger
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
1987
as Eron Jeffries
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
1986
as Samantha
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
1986
as Economics Student - Simone Adamley
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
1986
as Jennifer Davis
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
1986
as Stephanie Gamble
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
1986
as Duckette
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
N/A
as Ginger
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, ...