Kristy Swanson
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 Day Off (1986).
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Acting History
2025
I Am Luke Perry as Self
2022Trail Blazers as Slayer
2022Just Another Dream as Cindy Miller
2021Courting Mom and Dad as Sarah Lambert
2021Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare as Joanna Riley
2020The ObamaGate Movie as Lisa Page
2020Psych 2: Lassie Come Home as Marlowe Viccellio
2019FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers as Lisa Page
2019The Green Ribbon as Samantha Pringle (archive footage)
2019PawParazzi as Latte (voice)
2018Killer Under The Bed as Sarah
2018Mimesis: Nosferatu as Max's Mother
2018Winter's Dream as Kat
2018Bad Stepmother as Louise
2017A Mother's Sacrifice as Kathrin
2017Crowning Jules as Victoria
2015Angels in the Snow as Judith Montgomery
2015Driven Underground as Sarah Palmer
2014Merry Ex-Mas as Noëlle Rogers
2014A Belle for Christmas as Dani Downy
2014Beethoven's Treasure Tail as Anne Parker
2014A Lesson in Romance as Megan Mills
2014Little Women Big Cars 2 as Rocky
2013Storm Rider as Jody Peterson
2013The Bouquet as Terri Benton
2012Operation Cupcake as Janet Carson
2012Little Women Big Cars as Rocky
2011A Christmas Wish as Martha Evans
2011Chick Magnet as Kristy (uncredited)
2011Swamp Shark as Rachel McDaniel
2010What if... as Wendy Walker
2007Forbidden Secrets as Alexandra Kent Lambeth
2006Living Death as Elizabeth
2006Psych as Marlowe Viccellio
2006The Black Hole as Shannon Muir
2006Skating with Celebrities as Self - Couple 4
2005Hell's Kitchen as Self - Restaurant Patron
2005Bound by Lies as Laura Cross
2003One Tree Hill as Woman in Car
2003The Only Witness as Dr. Julia Craig
2003Red Water as Dr. Kelli Raymond
2003Celebrities Uncensored as Self
2002CSI: Miami as Roxanne Price
2001Zebra Lounge as Louise Bauer
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Lorelei Mailer
2001Soul Assassin as Tessa Jansen
2000Dude, Where's My Car? as Christie Boner
2000Meeting Daddy as Laurel Lee
2000Grapevine as Susan Crawford
1999Big Daddy as Vanessa
1999Supreme Sanction as Jenna
1998Ground Control as Julie Albrecht
1997Bad to the Bone as Francesca Wells
1997Lover Girl as Darlene Ferrari / 'Sherry'
19978 Heads in a Duffel Bag as Laurie
1997Just Shoot Me! as Allison
1997Tinseltown as Nikki Randall
1996Early Edition as Erica Paget
1996The Phantom as Diana Palmer
1996Marshal Law as Lilly Nelson
1996The Phantom: The Man, the Myth, the Legend as Self
1995Higher Learning as Kristen Connor
1994Getting In as Kirby Watts
1994The Chase as Natalie Voss
1993The Program as Camille Shafer
1993The Chili Con Carne Club
1992Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Buffy Summers
1991Highway to Hell as Rachel Clark
1991Hot Shots! as Kowalski
1991Mannequin Two: On the Move as Jessie
1990Diving In as Terry Hopkins
1990Dream Trap as Sue Halloran
1989B.L. Stryker as Lynn Ellingsworth
1989Nightingales as Rebecca 'Becky' Granger
1988Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz as Teenage Heidi Abromowitz (uncredited)
1988Nightingales as Becky
1988Juarez as Cathy Dodge
1987Flowers in the Attic as Cathy Dollanganger
1987Not Quite Human as Eron Jeffries
1986Deadly Friend as Samantha
1986Ferris Bueller's Day Off as Economics Student - Simone Adamley
1986Mr. Boogedy as Jennifer Davis
1986Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story as Stephanie Gamble
1986Pretty in Pink as Duckette
1985The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Female Student #2
1985Growing Pains as Rhonda
1984It's Your Move
1984Call to Glory as Sally
1982Cagney & Lacey
1979Knots Landing as Jody Campbell
—Reapers Night as Ginger