Kristy Swanson

American Actress Kristy Swanson has been in films since 1986's Deadly Friend, but cemented her reputation on TV with recurring roles in Knot's Landing (1987) and Nightingales (1988). Her forte has been the portrayal of young ladies with prom-queen looks and room-temperature I.Q.s. Among her leading roles in films have been the title characters in Mannequin 2 (1991) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). The failure of the highly touted Buffy has resulted in a number of negligible career moves for Kristy Swanson, most recently the role of a Beverly Hills princess accidentally kidnapped by fugitive Charlie Sheen in the doomed-from-the-start The Chase (1994)

.In 1997, Kristy Swanson starred as a seductive sociopath in the ABC made-for-TV movie, Bad to the Bone. That same year, she also appeared on the big screen in Lover Girl and 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, a comedy co-starring Joe Pesci and David Spade. In 1998, she played a gossipy Southern socialite in Meeting Daddy, and returned to primetime television for the 1998-'99 season of Early Edition on CBS.

The big screen beckoned once again, and Kristy Swanson was perfectly cast as Adam Sandler's girlfriend (who ends up leaving him) in the box-office blockbuster Big Daddy (1999). In Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Kristy played the appropriately named Christie Boner, a ditzy yet seductive blonde bombshell. She was then cast as a meddling cruise-line executive on the CBS midseason replacement comedy Grapevine, which was promptly canceled. In 2001, she appeared in the made-for-TV movie Zebra Lounge, and co-starred on the big screen in Soul Assassin.