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Hilary Swank was sleeping in a car before she found success in Hollywood. The 49-year-old actress has recalled leaving high school and travelling to Los Angeles in the hope of becoming a movie star. Hilary told the Wall Street Journal newspaper: “My mother had recently separated from my father, so we drove down to Los Angeles from Bellingham, Washington. “I began the process of breaking into the business. “In Los Angeles, my mother and I first lived in her Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme on quiet residential streets. When we weren’t sleeping in the car, we stayed at the house of a new friend my age…