We have Slashers, Stabbers and now we have The Slayer. Please welcome the original Buffy, Kristy Swanson, to the Washington State Horror Con lineup in Puyallup from October 25th through the 27th.
Kristy debuted on the big screen in two John Hughes films: Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Her first starring role was later in 1986, in Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend as Samantha – “the girl next door.” The next year she played Cathy in the adaptation of V. C. Andrews’ best-seller, Flowers in the Attic.
By 1990, Swanson had made many television appearances, including multiple appearances in Knots Landing (1987–1988), Nightingales (1989), her first starring role in a television series, although it only lasted a season, and a television series called B.L. Stryker (1989).
Throughout the 1990s, she starred in a variety of films. She played the title role in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She appeared in both starring and supporting roles in films such as Hot Shots!, The Program, The Chase, and her most critically acclaimed role, playing Kristen Connor, a student discovering her sexuality, in John Singleton’s Higher Learning. She also appeared in the film adaptation of the comic-book The Phantom and the dark comedy 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag with Joe Pesci.
Swanson played Erica Paget in Early Edition and then the ex-girlfriend of Adam Sandler in the film Big Daddy. In 2000, she starred in the film Dude, Where’s My Car?, alongside Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott and Jennifer Garner.
