Hilary Swank

Swank, 48, just finished filming the fifth episode of the series, which debuts Thursday on ABC and says she looks forward to "seeing how much my body's changed.

Hilary Swank just announced that she's expecting twins for the first time with her husband. Here's everything to know about her due date, pregnancy, ...

[48-year-old actress](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/g32618682/hilary-swank-workouts/) made the [announcement](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a40188970/mandy-moore-due-date/) on Good Morning America on Oct. But since twins arrive before 37 weeks in more than half of pregnancies, per She later shared on The Drew Barrymore Show that her due date holds a special meaning: it's her dad's birthday, per 👼🏼👼🏼,” she wrote in the [caption](https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVgDlpt1ez). It's so nice to be able to talk about it and share it." "It's such a blessing. Since she's over 35 (and pregnant with twins to boot), this is considered a high-risk pregnancy. [Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2022/10/06/pregnant-hilary-swank-reveals-twin-babies-due-date/). "And not just of one, but of two. “Congratulations honey!!!!!!” said Tabitha Brown, while Chelsea Handler chimed in with, “Yeah, babies!” [Parents](https://www.parents.com/getting-pregnant/trying-to-conceive/up-your-chances-of-getting-pregnant-at-every-age/). [said in the clip](https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1577637379938127872).

The Oscar-winning medical marvel—congrats on the twins!—stars in “Alaska Daily,” ABC's new drama about a disgraced journalist that is shockingly great.

A network drama that doesn’t sacrifice its social tenets for mass appeal: Who figured we’d have to go all the way to Alaska to get that? While its central mystery is certainly engrossing, I’m inclined to stay in Alaska for the locals. But it’s that callousness, which gets in the way of her being a decent human, that really triggers her downfall—not a journalistic source that needs more verifying. Eileen might have more formal experience than her peers in the Anchorage newsroom, but in a place like Alaska, that only gets her so far. She’s a woman who didn’t come to prominence in her career by making friends, and she’s tired of watered-down, overly sanitized journalism that lacks sting. The only way she’ll be able to solve these murders before someone else turns up dead is to find out why her walls are so impenetrable. It’s only natural that she would have a difficult time adapting to a different set of standards and practices. No one knows more about that than Roz (Grace Dove), a gallant Alaska Native assigned to work alongside Eileen. Normally, any show in which a character says, “Stop acting like a bunch of scared woke wussies more interested in eating their own than reporting the news,” would send my eyes rolling like a hamster wheel out of control. They perfectly illustrate the show’s suggestion that, despite all of its natural beauty, Alaska has just as much of a dark underbelly as anywhere else. Stories of Eileen’s gruff treatment of the junior staff at her newspaper don’t help her case, either. This is the rare, modern network drama to balance mass appeal with semi-progressive ideology.

Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank announced that she's expecting twins with her husband entrepreneur husband Philip Schneider.

I think we can make it work.’ And she’s like, ‘Well, you’re an executive producer, so you can do what you want, but that doesn’t work.’ I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I have to be able to tell people soon.'” “And I’m like, ‘Oh, you know, it’s OK, it’ll work.’ And they’re like, ‘No, it doesn’t match.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, I think it’s OK. I’m sure there’s been conversations, and when I get back to the set, people will be like, ‘Oh, it all makes sense now.'” “It’s so nice to be able to talk about it and share it.” I can’t believe it,” Swank said, adding that she was so relieved to be able to finally talk about it. [shopping](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/shopping/) [The Best Amazon Prime Early Access Deals on Beauty Gadgets, From Hair Dryers to Facial Devices](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/shopping/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-beauty-tools-devices-1235238450/) [Tech](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/tech/) [The Best Amazon Prime Early Access Deals for TV and Movie Lovers, from Merch to Home Theater Essentials](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/shopping/prime-day-deals-tv-movie-merch-1235179034/) [shopping](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/shopping/) [The Best Amazon Fall Prime Day Deals on Health and Home Essentials, From KN95 Masks to Robot Vacuums](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/shopping/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-on-health-covid-household-essentials-1235179814/) [Associated Press.](https://twitter.com/APEntertainment/status/1577749764455776271) “But then, like, you’re growing and you’re using the bathroom a lot and you’re eating a lot. “The continuity (person) was like, ‘That doesn’t match [a previous take,]'” the actress continued, laughing. She went on to share ways that she hid her pregnancy on set, like cutting a pair of her pants that no longer fit and hiding it by putting a jacket over it. [Alaska Daily star](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/alaska-daily-hilary-swank-tom-mccarthy-abc-1235232457/), who is 48, also revealed that her co-stars and crew on the series didn’t know she was pregnant, though they may have had some inclination that something had changed in the actress in the last few months. [Good Morning America](https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1577637379938127872), saying, “This is something that I’ve been wanting for a long time, and my next thing is I’m gonna be a mom. [Share this article on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hilary-swank-pregnant-twins-1235234498/&title=Hilary%20Swank%20Reveals%20She’s%20Pregnant%20With%20Twins&sdk=joey&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=share_button&app_id=352999048212581) [Share this article on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hilary-swank-pregnant-twins-1235234498/&text=Hilary%20Swank%20Reveals%20She%E2%80%99s%20Pregnant%20With%20Twins&via=thr) [Share this article on Email](mailto:?subject=thr%20:%20Hilary%20Swank%20Reveals%20She’s%20Pregnant%20With%20Twins&body=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hilary-swank-pregnant-twins-1235234498/%20-%20Hilary%20Swank%20Reveals%20She’s%20Pregnant%20With%20Twins) [Show additional share options](#) [Share this article on Print]() [Share this article on Comment](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hilary-swank-pregnant-twins-1235234498/#respond) [Share this article on Whatsapp](whatsapp://send?text=Hilary%20Swank%20Reveals%20She’s%20Pregnant%20With%20Twins%20-%20https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hilary-swank-pregnant-twins-1235234498/) [Share this article on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=1&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hilary-swank-pregnant-twins-1235234498/&title=Hilary%20Swank%20Reveals%20She’s%20Pregnant%20With%20Twins&summary&source=thr) [Share this article on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hilary-swank-pregnant-twins-1235234498/&title=Hilary%20Swank%20Reveals%20She’s%20Pregnant%20With%20Twins) [Share this article on Pinit](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hilary-swank-pregnant-twins-1235234498/&description=Hilary%20Swank%20Reveals%20She’s%20Pregnant%20With%20Twins) [Share this article on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hilary-swank-pregnant-twins-1235234498/&posttype=link&title=Hilary%20Swank%20Reveals%20She’s%20Pregnant%20With%20Twins)

In ABC's “Alaska Daily,” Swank plays a seasoned investigative journalist who takes a job in Alaska to look into unsolved cases of missing and murdered ...

The 48-year-old actress shared the date's special link to her late father, Stephen Michael Swank, while appearing on “The Drew Barrymore Show.” More On:.

Happy one year wedding anniversary, to the love of my life.” The best of my life…besides the first year…and second year together. 14 “This is something that I’ve been wanting for a long time, and my next thing is I’m gonna be a mom,” she said in the interview. [Up Next](https://pagesix.com/2022/10/06/britney-spears-blasts-mom-lynne-over-apology-go-f-k-yourself/) [ tied the knot](https://pagesix.com/2018/08/22/hilary-swank-marries-fiance-philip-schneider/) in August 2018.

The Oscar winner leaves ambition behind for a by-the-numbers ABC drama about a big-shot reporter forced to start over at the local level.

Such eagerness to be found out can be partly chalked up to the way procedurals work: Each week, there’s a mystery, and each week, the mystery is solved. Everything you expect to happen in “Alaska Daily” will happen, and there’s too little humor, romance, and wit to turn a rote crime procedural into a comforting weekly watch. And after two episodes, the show could set itself on a better course. (“Alaska, Daily” also has a long-term, serialized investigation focusing on a pattern of murdered Indigenous women.) Audiences can take comfort in getting firm answers to one plot while anticipating answers to the other plot in future episodes. With a staff of 25 covering the largest state in America, there’s plenty of stories to be found north of Vancouver, he promises, and the paper (yes, they still print a physical paper) needs Eileen’s experience, instincts, and tenacity to keep the citizens of our country’s third least-populated state in the know. Within the first two episodes, multiple adults confess to major felonies without so much as light pressure being applied — and confess on the record! The latter point proves particularly vexing — given the series’ half-assed attempt to explain the divisive state of America by claiming a lack of effort on “both sides” — but that, at least, is an Episode 2 problem. At worst, they’re insulting — to anyone who’s actually lived in a “small town” and to anyone who expects more from people clearly capable of it. [Alaska Daily](https://www.indiewire.com/t/alaska-daily/),” created by McCarthy (who writes and directs the pilot), and starring Swank (who also serves as an executive producer), is objectively not good. The second-most senior editor is similarly in the dark over why journalists and cops may not always see eye to eye. One young reporter is so naive, she needs a pep talk to understand the basic purpose of her job. Harnessing the power afforded an Oscar winner, let alone someone with two little gold men on their mantel, is a delicate endeavor.

Workplace drama follows the disgraced journalist as she moves north to start over in Anchorage.

Six months later, Eileen is holed up in her New York apartment, ostensibly working on a book to clear her name, when her old editor Stanley (Steppenwolf legend Jeff Perry of “Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” et al.) offers her a job as a reporter at the Alaska Daily, luring Eileen with a potential blockbuster story: the disappearances of a number of local indigenous women, which have been largely ignored by the local authorities and, yes, the media. This is a series that gets all the details right about the daily grind of general news and investigative journalists who spend hours upon hours working their sources on the phone and in person, scouring every corner of the Internet for morsels of information, showing up at crime scenes with notebook and smartphone in hand — and of course, lobbying their editors to make sure their story makes the paper and gets good play. We won’t bury the lead: The ABC journalism drama “Alaska Daily” is a solid, impressively credentialed and entertaining albeit conventional series that plays like a comfort-viewing, hourlong show from the 1990s.

Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank returns to series television in "Alaska Daily," a too-earnest, tropey drama that's well-intentioned but heavy-handed in ...

Cut to Elizabeth on a plane bound for Anchorage as the paper’s new star reporter. She attributes it to “woke wussies” and cancel culture (a tip of the editorial cap to topicality); cut to four months later and she’s writing a book about the general in her ridiculously large, plush apartment with way too many panoramic views of Manhattan. and immediately clashes with her new colleagues (pushy New York City reporter and all that, but you know they will eventually bond). Swank is surrounded by an appealing supporting cast — including [Matt Malloy,](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540164/) [Meredith Holzman](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4290965/), [Grace Dove](https://www.instagram.com/_gracedove/?hl=en) and [Pablo Castelblanco ](https://www.instagram.com/castelblancop/?hl=en)— and Perry, who, unencumbered by the … Elizabeth is convinced he’s involved in illegal international arms deals and her one trusted source gives her incriminating information to back that up — with one huge problem: the general and his team claim the documents are forged. The Vanguard “re-reports” (weird terminology) the story and Eileen quits in a self-righteous fury — just as stories of her alleged bullying several of the paper’s female staffers are brought to light.

The new ABC drama "Alaska Daily" stars Hilary Swank as a journalist who investigates cases of missing and murdered indigenous women.

"He's got an eye for, obviously movies, but also for the long game. "Tom McCarthy had me at hello," Hilary Swank told WABC Entertainment Reporter Sandy Kenyon. "It's a story about how the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis is being largely ignored," is how the character played by Jeff Perry explains it in the first episode.

'Alaska Daily' review: Hilary Swank stars in ABC's journalism drama from the writer-director of 'Spotlight'.

And Swank brings the right kind of cantankerous nuance to the role. Suffice it to say, the newsroom of the Alaska Daily is more diverse than most. It’s a good story to dig into and McCarthy was smart to set up a narrative that ensures an Indigenous journalist (Roz) is on equal footing with Eileen. I’ll also note that “Alaska Daily” is scarily accurate about the way journalists lose their minds when there’s free food in the newsroom. It’s wish-fulfillment fantasy — reporters too convinced of their superiority don’t actually do good work and would sooner swallow their laptop whole than work at a regional newspaper no one in New York has ever heard of — but Swank and Perry are the kind of actors who convince you to come along for the ride. Eileen’s bull-in-a-china-shop routine is a bit clichéd, but it also rings true, to an extent. Which is why, when an old colleague comes visiting from Alaska and offers her a spot at his modest paper — The Alaska Daily once had a staff of 100, now it’s down to 25 (oh, I know this story well) — she’s begrudgingly persuaded to start anew in Anchorage. I also liked the brief moment when Eileen sneaks out one morning after a one-night stand, takes her nose out of her navel for once, pauses to look around at her surroundings and is stunned to realize, oh right, the landscape here is gorgeous. (I’ll be happy to see that trope die a thousand deaths.) These feel like important concepts for the average person to see in action. “I’ve spent my whole career battling a bunch of good ol’ boy misogynists only to get canceled for being one myself,” Eileen says, incredulous that she, a white woman, would experience any sort of consequence for being just as insufferable as the jerks around her. If you’re in the mood for anything that doesn’t center on first responders, the options have been limited. Here’s how we’re introduced to Eileen Fitzgerald, the veteran investigative journalist played by two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank in the new ABC drama “Alaska Daily.” She’s working on a big exposé for a New York paper when someone lower down the food chain approaches her with concerns about her source.

After Hilary Swank announced she's pregnant and expecting twins with husband Philip Schneider, her friend and former co-star Emmy Rossum responded to a ...

"And then I put a jacket that wasn't in continuity." cut [my jeans] open," the actress, who currently stars in Alaska Daily, said during her Oct. To which Emmy simply responded with three letters: "Gfy." [expecting twins with husband Phillip Schneider](https://www.eonline.com/news/1349121/hilary-swank-is-pregnant-expecting-twins-with-husband-philip-schneider) on Oct. "My clothes started not to fit so I had to, the other day ... And after Hilary posted a clip of herself [cradling her baby bump to Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVgDlpt1ez/?hl=en), one user chimed in with a critical comment—which prompted Hilary's You're Not You co-star Emmy to address them directly.

Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and her entrepreneur husband, Paul Schneider, are expecting twins, the 'Million Dollar Baby' star announced during a ...

They “came and said, ‘That’s not in continuity.’ I said, ‘Oh, I think it works … It’s unbelievable,” she said, adding that she is “so excited” about motherhood. “It’s such a blessing. And then I put a jacket on,” she recalled. “Clothes started not to fit so I had to … “And not just of one but of two.

She just shared the news of her pregnancy on 'Good Morning America.' “I'm going to be a mom—and not just of one, but of two.”

“While there are more risks to pregnancy at this age, studies show that most people in this group have good pregnancy outcomes and can cope with the stresses of pregnancy, both physical and emotional,” he says. “This does not mean it is necessarily easy, as fertility can decrease significantly after age 40 and spontaneous pregnancy is very rare after 45.” (Spontaneous pregnancy, in case you're not familiar with the term, is getting pregnant without reproductive assistance.) “I can't believe it.” Swank added that “it’s so nice to be able to talk about it and share it.” “Both average age of people pregnant for the first time and the birth rate in people 35 and older have increased, while other demographics have seen birth rates decrease, so it is increasingly common,” he says. “And [they] came and said, ‘You know that’s not in continuity.‘ And I said, ‘Oh, I think it works.’ And she’s like, ‘It doesn’t.’ I’m like, ‘No, it does. “I’m going to be a mom—and not just of one, but of two,” the Oscar winner said.

Hilary Swank is an acclaimed actress with two Academy Awards to her name, along with numerous other accolades. The talented 48-year-old will next star in ...

Alaska Daily is an ABC series premiering on Thursday, October 6, at 10:00 p.m. It’s also possible that the series could eventually stream on Disney+, but it’s doubtful it will go to Netflix. This story is what initially entices Eileen to leave New York behind after a massive story she was working on fell apart, along with her primary source.

Hilary Swank has announced she's pregnant with twins and says that revelation might explain some of her actions on set of her new ABC series “ Alaska Daily.

And look, I’m not complaining because I love my job, but when you ask, like, ‘What is it like to be pregnant during that?’ It’s definitely a different set of circumstances.” my pants and then I put a jacket on over it like I had to hide it, right? “There was a moment just last week when my pants didn’t fit anymore and I had to like cut … “A lot of people call her rude, yet if she were a man, no one would call her rude. So as we continue down this road, hopefully shining a bright light on this … I’m sure there’s been conversations, and when I get back to the set, people will be like, ‘Oh, it all makes sense now,’