Kristy was born on Dec 19th, 1969 in Mission Viejo, California. At the tender age of nine she had already begun her dream of becoming an actress by starring in her first TV commercial. With her natural beauty and shining talent Kristy was a veteran of the TV advertising industry with a whopping 30 commercials to her credit by the time she reached 15 years old. She was determined to reach a higher calling and convinced her parents that Hollywood was her destiny, so the family moved to Los Angeles.

It took less than a year for the determined young actress to land her first movie roll. It was in 1986’s “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. She then took some small parts on TV as well as more TV commercials. In 1987 she was cast in the film version of V.C. Andrews’ horror novel “Flowers in the Attic”. The next few years of Kristy’s career were mainly in low budget movies and still more Television appearances. It wasn’t until 1992 that Swanson would get the recognition that she deserved.

She was cast in the leading role of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. She played a cheerleader who’s priorities were “cool” friends and great clothes only to learn that she was the “chosen one” and must rid the

orld of evil vampires. Despite her engagingly exuberant performance, the movie didn’t do that well at the box office. It did, however, generate enough interest to create a Television series spin-off by the same name. She played a variety of characters in the following few years with such films as “Highway to Hell” (1992) ,“The Program” (1993), and “The Chase” (1994). In 1995 she was cast in “Higher Learning”. She gave an excellent performance playing a naïve freshman that is date raped.

The film has arguably been dubbed her best to date. Kristy followed up with “The Phantom” in 1996. In 1997 she co-starred with Joe Pesci and David Spade in the hilarious comedy “8 heads in a duffelbag”. Her stunning good looks and the ability to change personas is remarkable. She has been classed with such actresses as Cameron Diaz, Samantha Mathis and Kari Salin with good r