Hilary Swank is an American actress who won two Academy Awards — for 'Boys Don't Cry' and 'Million Dollar Baby' — and played the principled young cop Ellie Burr in Nolan's 'Insomnia'.
Swank's Ellie Burr in 'Insomnia' — the cop who idolizes Dormer while discovering his moral compromise — functions as the film's conscience, the perspective through which the audience registers the cost of institutional corruption.
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