Dominique Swain

Cherubic Dominique Swain is 28 but still has her famous teen nymph looks.

While studying at Malibu High School, Dominique was so determined to be an actress, that she sent an audition tape to the producers of the controversial 1997 movie Lolita. Based on Vladimir Nabakov's shocking novel the movie explored a middle-aged professor, Humbert Humbert's (played by Jeremy Irons), intense sexual desire for young girls.

"I was only 14 at the time and quite naive...I never had any sexual experience before shooting the film," said Dominique of the sex scenes with Jeremy Irons. "My hips were moving but I didn't know what I was doing."

Lolita was criticized for defending paedophiles and encouraging child abuse, and every single American distributor refused to show the movie. It was later only seen on cable. That same year Dominique Swain played an actual non-sexualized teen in John Woo's Face/Off with Nicholas Cage and John Travolta.

Among Dominique Swain's more recent film roles have been in last year's western Praire Fever with Kevin Sorbo, Felicia Day, and Jillian Armenante. Swain is 5'9" and was a sporty girl in school, taking part in sports like softball, swimming, track and soccer. In 2007 Dominique appeared in the snowboarding movie White Air, which unfortunately did not have her playing the role of a female snowboarder but only as a male snowboarder's girlfriend.

Dominique Swain kissing Mischa Barton. The two girls played best friends at a Manhattan prep school, exploring sex drugs and boys, in the 2001 movie Tart

Dominique was also in the Justin Timberlake 2007 hit Alpha Dog with other hot girls like Amanda Seyfried and Olivia Wilde. Olivia Wilde had become famous for kissing Mischa Barton on the lips in The OC, but Dominique Swain played her share of lesbian and bisexual characters much earlier. In the 1998 movie Girl Dominique kissed Tara Reid. "She's got nice soft lips and we got along very well," Dominique said later. "Tara and I were living together, actually. We were just really close, so it wasn't uncomfortable at all."

In the 2002 movie New Best Friend, which had many scenes of girls making out and dancing close together, Dominique had a lesbian love scene with Mia Krishner. Swain even became a lesbian icon for a while but is straight, although she admits, "I think everyone goes through a really exploratory stage."



This year Dominique Swain will be seen in the horror movie Trance, the comedy Stuntmen, and the action-thriller The Girl from the Naked Eye.