Austin Swift

Austin Kingsley Swift was born on March 11, 1992, at Reading Hospital in West Reading, Pennsylvania. His father, Scott Swift, is a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch, and his mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), is a former homemaker who had previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. His maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer.^[3] Swift's mother is of Scottish and German descent; and his father is of Scottish and English descent with distant Italian ancestry.^[4] Swift's paternal great-great-grandfather, Charles Carmine Antonio Baldi, was an Italian immigrant entrepreneur and community leader who opened several businesses in Philadelphia in the 1800s.^[5][6] Swift moved from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, to Hendersonville, Tennessee with his family at a young age.^[7]

Swift attended Pope Saint John Paul II Preparatory School in Hendersonville. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2015,^[8] where he studied film and had roles in plays such as Dead Man's Cell Phone and Six Characters in Search of an Author. Swift transferred to Vanderbilt University but eventually transferred back to Notre Dame to complete his studies.^[9]

Swift interned at Lionsgate, where his responsibilities included making and sending out screeners.^[10] He made his film debut in the 2016 thriller I.T. starring Pierce Brosnan. Swift has also appeared in Live by Night, Megyn Kelly's political drama Embeds,^[11] sitcom Still the King,^[12] and Todd Berger's Cover Versions.^[10] In 2019, he starred in the indie movie Braking for Whales, originally titled Whaling, written by Tammin Sursok and her husband Sean McEwen,^[13][14][15] and in the horror thriller We Summon the Darkness, directed by Marc Meyers.^[16]