Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift (birthname: Taylor Alison Swift) is her generation’s biggest pop music artist, having recorded several albums since 2006 which have reached platinum as well as concert tours (particularly her “The Eras Tour” in 2023 and 2024) which have broken every record for ticket sales and revenues.

At the same time, Swift has carved out an acting career in feature films, beginning with her first of several supporting roles under Garry Marshall’s direction in the hit ($216.5 million gross) ensemble rom-com, Valentine’s Day (2010), with Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, and Julia Roberts.

Swift had her first significant part in a voice role in the Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment animated version of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (2012), with Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Rob Riggle, and Betty White, and going on to gross $349 million worldwide. Taylor Swift’s first dramatic role was opposite Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgård, and Katie Holmes in the Phillip Noyce-directed dystopian drama, The Giver (2014).

Swift was the subject of her first theatrically-released music portrait and arguably her best film, Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince (2020), directed by documentary filmmaker Lana Wilson, and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival before opening in theaters and streaming on Netflix.

While five of Swift’s concert-related movies were released on streaming services, the big-scaled concert film documenting a three-night stand at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023), was released in AMC and Cinemark Theatres chains and directed by Sam Wrench.

Swift delivered her first musical-comedy performance on film as Bombalurina in the generally lambasted Tom Hooper-directed movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 musical, Cats (2019), with James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellan, and Rebel Wilson.

Taylor Swift played support, in a darker and more satiric vein, to stars Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington in director/writer/producer David O. Russell’s sneaky comic mystery, Amsterdam (2022), which was a financial bomb for lead producer New Regency and distributors 20^th Century Studios and Buena Vista International.

Swift showed signs of her filmmaking ambitions with her first short film as writer-director-producer-actor in All Too Well: The Short Film (2021)—based on Swift’s song—co-starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien and released theatrically by Universal Pictures after premiering at the Tribeca film festival, and which won several awards from the American Music Awards, Grammy Awards, the Art Directors Guild, and MTV’s VMA awards.