5 Reasons Why ‘Alaska Daily’ Star Hilary Swank Is Us Weekly’s Woman Crush

Hilary Swank has earned herself a successful career as an A-list actress and it's a long way from where she grew up.The two time Oscar winner - who is expecting twins - once lived in a trailer park in Washington State and could only dream of a life in Hollywood. MORE: Everything you need to know about Hilary Swank's gripping new drama Alaska Daily"My background is not something I forget," she said in an interview with the Mail on Sunday. "It helps me to not take what I have for granted.

Doting (soon-to-be) dad! Hilary Swank is in good hands with her husband, Philip Schneider, as the couple prepares for the arrival of their “miracle” twins.

Baby bliss! Hilary Swank and husband Philip Schneider are enjoying every moment of preparing for the birth of their “miracle” twins.

Emmy Rossum has defended Hilary Swank after the actress was viciously trolled over her pregnancy. The 48-year-old Oscar-winner confirmed this week she is expecting twins with her husband Philip Schneider, but she's come under fire from online critics who have made fun of her age and posted spiteful messages online suggesting she might not live long enough to see her children grow up. One troll wrote: "AREN’T YOU LIKE 50 YRS OLD? Gonna be in your 70s when they graduate college.

Defending her friend. After Hilary Swank was criticized for her age amid her “miracle” pregnancy, Emmy Rossum has clapped back.

that she will soon become the mother of twins, and frankly, the post is a wasted opportunity for a Million Dollar Baby pun. Don't worry, Hilary, I got you. , who is expecting two million dollar babies, modeled her baby bump in a flowy floral dress. She paired the post with a caption that is, I will admit, also a decent movie-star-expecting-twins pun.

Emmy Rossum spoke up to defend Hilary Swank after she was criticized by one Instagram user for being pregnant.

Kate Hudson leading the comments. “What what what!!! Yeah”, she began, followed with a string of heart emojis.

Hilary Swank returns to series television in “Alaska Daily,” a too- earnest, tropey drama that’s well-intentioned but heavy-handed in checking all the requisite contextual boxes.Swank, 48, plays Eileen Fitzgerald, an abrasive, hard-charging investigative reporter for the (fictional) New York City newspaper The Vanguard. She’s digging into a five-star general who’s under consideration as the country’s next Secretary of Defense.

Hilary Swank made an exciting announcement on Wednesday, revealing she's pregnant with twins! But weeks before her pregnancy news, the two-time Oscar winner took over the ET mic for an exclusive set tour of her new ABC drama, .The drama series, which debuts Thursday, follows Swank's Eileen Fitzgerald, a talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska, on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption. She soon finds herself at the center of a years-old cold case involving the death of a missing woman who was abducted when she was a teenager. «I call my character, whose name is Eileen, a truth seeker,» Swank says to the ET camera as she shows off the Vancouver set, before referring to the mystery at the center of her quest. «So, this is what brings her here.

A miracle indeed! Pregnant Hilary Swank revealed that her twins could share a birthday with her late father, Stephen Swank, who died last year.

Hilary Swank is all smiles in a pretty floral dress while arriving for an appearance on Live! with Kelly and Ryan on Wednesday (October 5) in New York City.

Hilary Swank announced on "Good Morning America" Wednesday that she is pregnant with twins. The Academy Award winning actress was on the morning talk show to promote her upcoming series, "Alaska Daily," when she made the announcement to the hosts of the show, and to all of America.  Not only did the 48-year-old actress reveal she is pregnant, but she also announced she will be having twins.

Hilary Swank has some BIG news!

Joe Otterson TV Reporter With the launch of “Alaska Daily” — the new drama series starring Academy Award winner Hillary Swank and hailing from Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy — ABC is shining a spotlight on an important issue: violence against Native women in the U.S. Swank plays an investigative journalist who takes a job at a daily metro paper in Alaska, where she becomes embroiled in a mystery involving murder and a string of unsolved disappearances. Simran Sethi, ABC Enteratinment’s executive vice president of programming and content strategy, said that the show was inspired by a series of articles published by the Anchorage Daily News, and that the lack of media attention around the crises facing Native women helped push ABC into picking up the show.

They’re full of surprises! Four years after they secretly tied the knot, Hilary Swank announced that she and husband Philip Schneider are expecting twins.

Year-round development for the broadcast networks became something of a buzz phrase during Covid as the likes of ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC battled the pandemic to get new shows on the air.