Kristy Swanson

Kristy Swanson

Kristy Swanson

Kristy Swanson

Kristy Swanson

Kristy Swanson

Kristy Swanson

Kristen Noel "Kristy" Swanson (born December 19, 1969 in Mission Viejo, California, U.S.) is an American actress best known as 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 one-off 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 adapatation 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 a shortlived 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 (film).

Swanson posed nude for Playboy magazine in November 2002.

Swanson appeared in and won the 2006 FOX television program Skating with Celebrities, partnered with Lloyd Eisler.

On May 8, 2007, Swanson appeared in the NBC Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode "Bombshell". She portrayed a thinly veiled fictionalization of Anna Nicole Smith (called Lorelai Mailer) - a former nude model turned reality TV star battling for the fortune of her deceased 92 year old husband whose teenage son dies shortly after the birth of her daughter.

In 2007, she became a spokesperson of the Medifast diet