{"id":28197,"date":"2024-02-21T23:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/ordinary-angels-star-hilary-swank-lived-on-streets-of-la-in-her-car-before-big-break\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:44:02","slug":"ordinary-angels-star-hilary-swank-lived-on-streets-of-la-in-her-car-before-big-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/ordinary-angels-star-hilary-swank-lived-on-streets-of-la-in-her-car-before-big-break\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ordinary Angels’ star Hilary Swank lived on streets of LA in her car before big break"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From an early age, actress Hilary Swank had an urge to act. An interest in the craft, coupled with her innate talent, ultimately led Swank to make a big change: leave high school after her sophomore year and move to California.<\/p>\n

She and her mother Judy, who had recently separated from her father Stephen, caravanned from Washington to California in pursuit of giving Swank a Hollywood career, but things would not materialize right away.<\/p>\n

“In L.A., my mother and I first lived in her Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme on quiet residential streets,” she wrote in an essay for The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

HILARY SWANK EXPLAINS WHY SHE WAITED UNTIL LATER IN LIFE TO BECOME PREGNANT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hilary Swank says before moving to Los Angeles, she lived in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.<\/span> (Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“When we weren\u2019t sleeping in the car, we stayed at the house of a new friend my age whose family had just moved out and were trying to sell their home. We slept on an air mattress.”<\/p>\n

The “Ordinary Angels” actress said after her mother landed a secretarial position, they were able to rent “a bedroom from a single mother in Burbank.”<\/p>\n

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Hilary Swank, right, moved to Los Angeles with her mother Judy in an effort to pursue a career in Hollywood.<\/span> (Angela Weiss\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“Starting out, I booked just OK television parts, but I didn\u2019t care. I was excited to be living my dream,” Swank explained.<\/p>\n

Her circumstances in LA were not too dissimilar to her situation in Washington. “In Bellingham, we lived in a trailer park, which wasn\u2019t a negative for me. I had food and a roof over my head,” she wrote. “It wasn\u2019t until my friends\u2019 parents excluded me from dinners and playdates that I realized living in a trailer park made me an outcast.”<\/p>\n

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Hilary Swank says she was excluded from activities when she was younger due to her living situation.<\/span> (ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“Though I knew I was perceived as different, I didn\u2019t immediately understand the classism. Then I did. I also understood that where we lived was a bigger issue for people than who I was.”<\/p>\n

At her core, Swank was a star, now going on to have an illustrious career. She won an Academy Award for the films “Boy’s Don’t Cry” and “Million Dollar Baby” in 1999 and 2004, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2023, at the age of 49, she welcomed twins with husband Philip Schenider. They now split their time between Colorado and Washington.<\/p>\n

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Hilary Swank welcomed twins, a boy and girl, with husband Philip Schneider in April 2023.<\/span> (Todd Williamson\/NBC via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Even though I\u2019m happy we left LA, every so often, when I\u2019m there for meetings, I\u2019ll drive along a street in Pasadena where my mom and I parked and slept,” Swank reflected. “Despite the challenges, I feel nostalgia for those days, when we had nothing.”<\/p>\n

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Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer. Story tips can be sent to caroline.thayer@fox.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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