Family
father:Robert Swanson (worked in Orange County, California)
mother:Rosemary Swanson (worked in Orange County, California)
son:Magnus Eisler (born February 16, 2007; father, Lloyd Eisler)
Companion(s)
Jonathan Kahn
, Companion
, ```..born c. 1969; wrote "The Chili Con Carne Club" starring Swanson and Mel Gibson for American Film Institute; no longer together
Lloyd Eisler
, Companion
, ```..Eisler and Swanson caused a scandal when they started dating while co-starring in TV talent show "Skating With Celebrities" (Fox), in 2005, while Eisler was still married to Marcia O'Brien, who was then pregnant with the couple's second child; Eisler divorced O'Brien in January 2007, a month before Swanson gave birth to their son Magnus Hart.
2006 Competed on the Fox reality series, "Skating with Celebrities"
2000 Co-starred as a match-making cruise-line executive in the CBS midseason comedy "Grapevine", a reworking of a series that originally ran in 1992
1999 Appeared as Adam Sandler's girlfriend Vanessa in the hit comedy "Big Daddy"
1999 Portrayed beautiful blonde assassin Jenna in "Supreme Sanction", a clone of "La Femme Nikita" that aired on HBO before its release on video
1998 Essayed gossipy Southern socialite in "Meeting Daddy", with Lloyd and Beau Bridges
1998 Joined the cast of CBS' "Early Edition" for one season as a single mother bar owner and love interest to Kyle Chandler's Gary Hobson
1997 Starred as the devestatingly beautiful and seductive sociopath Francesca Wells in the ABC movie "Bad to the Bone"
1996 Played plucky female lead Diana Palmer to Billy Zane's "The Phantom"
1995 Portrayed naive college girl flirting with lesbianism in John Singleton's "Higher Learning"
1994 Starred as high-profile millionaire's daughter taken hostage by an innocent man on the run (Sheen) in "The Chase"
1993 Appeared as a calm, cool tennis star in "The Program"
1992 Had title role in the film "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
1991 Headlined "Mannequin 2: On the Move", a horrid sequel that made the bad original seem better than it was
1991 Second film with Sheen, "Hot Shots!"; first film with Lloyd Bridges
1989 Played Lynn Ellingsworth in two installments of "B.L. Stryker" (aired under the umbrella of "The ABC Mystery Movie")
1989 Portrayed Rebecca Halliday in the TV-movie "Nightingales" (NBC) and the short-lived NBC spin-off series
1987 Co-starred as one of the teenage children of Victoria Tennant in the disappointing thriller "Flowers in the Attic", adapted from V.C. Andrews' novel of incestuous relationships and confined childhood
1987 - 1988 Had recurring role as Jody Campbell in "Knots Landing" (CBS)
1986 Feature debut in the John Hughes-produced "Pretty in Pink"; also acted in Hughes' "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (her first film with Charlie Sheen in the cast)
1986 First leading role in "Deadly Friend" directed by Wes Craven; played a young woman brought back from the dead
1985 Became emancipated from her parents at age 15 (date approximate)
1985 Moved out of her parent's home in Orange County, California to an apartment in L.A. (date approximate)
1983 TV series debut, "Dreamfinders" (The Disney Channel)
Appeared in first commercial at the age of nine
