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KRISTY SWANSON Buffy Summers Buffy The Vampire Slayer (film)

Kristen Noel "Kristy" Swanson was born in Mission Viejo, California best known as an actress who portrayed the original Buffy Summers in Joss Whedon's 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Kristy Swanson started in TV advertising roles, and went on to make several appearances in TV series such as Cagney and Lacey and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1986, she appeared in Ferris Bueller's Day Off as a character who announces a convoluted excuse for Ferris' absence in class. Her first starring role was in 1986 in Wes Craven's Deadly Friend, and the next year she played Cathy in the adaptation of V. C. Andrews' best-seller Flowers in the Attic.

By 1990, Kristy Swanson had made many television appearances, including multiple appearances in Knots Landing (1987-1988), and the Burt Reynolds vehicle called B.L. Stryker (1989). In the 1998-1999 season of Early Edition, Swanson played Erica Paget, a love interest of the main character, Gary Hobson. In 1999 Swanson played Vanessa, the girlfriend of Adam Sandler in the movie Big Daddy. She also had roles in Hot Shots!, The Chase, The Phantom, and Dude, Where’s My Car?

Swanson also appeared in and won the 2006 FOX television program Skating with Celebrities, partnered with Canadian World Champion Skater, Lloyd Eisler. Swanson and Eisler, began dating in December 2005 and the couple has recently welcomed their first child together.