ACTOR

Kristy Swanson

1969 - Today

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Kristy Swanson (born December 19, 1969) is an American actress. She is best recognized for having played Buffy Summers in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer and appeared in the 1996 film The Phantom. Her first starring role was in Wes Craven's horror film Deadly Friend (1986), followed by her portrayal of Catherine "Cathy" Dollanganger in the film adaptation of V. C. Andrews's Flowers in the Attic (1987). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kristy Swanson has received more than 6,264,688 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Kristy Swanson is the 6,541st most popular actor (down from 6,303rd in 2019), the 9,634th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,427th in 2019) and the 3,010th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kristy Swanson ranks 6,541 out of 13,578. Before her are Kevin Chapman, Wallace Langham, Kim Go-eun, Pauline Starke, Judy Cornwell, and Seo Hyun-jin. After her are Valerie Mahaffey, Arthur Hill, John Hoyt, Parker Stevenson, Édouard Baer, and Joan Leslie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Kristy Swanson ranks 347. Before her are Teresa Salgueiro, Gale Harold, James Gray, Christian Laettner, Krunoslav Jurčić, and Graham Coxon. After her are Ben Harper, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Kirill Serebrennikov, Lionel Aingimea, Lucy Hawking, and Reginald Arvizu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kristy Swanson ranks 9,634 out of 20,380. Before her are Greg Graffin (1964), Colin Campbell Cooper (1856), Pauline Starke (1901), Jon Ossoff (1987), Eddie Hazel (1950), and Charles Augustus Young (1834). After her are Joe Lovano (1952), John Hoyt (1905), Parker Stevenson (1952), John Carroll (1735), Michael Parenti (1933), and Joan Leslie (1925).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Kristy Swanson ranks 3,010. Before her are Joan Hackett (1934), Laila Robins (1959), Keith Szarabajka (1952), Kevin Chapman (1962), Wallace Langham (1965), and Pauline Starke (1901). After her are John Hoyt (1905), Parker Stevenson (1952), Joan Leslie (1925), Tina Louise (1934), Edward Brophy (1895), and Joey King (1999).

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Television and Movie Roles

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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 vampires.
Jul 24th 19925.6 / 10
Dude, Where's My Car?
Christie Boner
Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.
Dec 15th 20005.6 / 10
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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 throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Jun 11th 19867.6 / 10