Word: brandon
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...Paris to find a dress? Four awards ceremonies in two weeks? Life for a young actress doesn't get much better than this. Following last fall's release of the indie sleeper Boys Don't Cry--in which she portrays Teena Brandon, a sexually confused Nebraska woman who was raped and murdered for posing as a man--Swank won Best Actress honors from critics in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Toronto. Her Golden Globe competitors are Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore--and she's a near cinch for an Oscar nomination...
...best friend in the original, 1992 movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 1998, after a bad run of TV movies and short-lived series, she auditioned for the role that turned her career around. Director Kimberly Peirce tested "every butch lesbian and transsexual out there" for Brandon before watching a tape from Swank. "She was beautifully androgynous--boy jaw, boy eyes, boy ears," recalls Peirce. "More important, she showed you she loved being Brandon. She was believable...
Germakian started in place of injured sophomore Brandon Rhoades...