Born in 1992 — a few years after his sister, famously born in 1989 — Austin Swift moved to Nashville with his family so that Taylor could pursue her burgeoning country music career, and as he told People Magazine in 2018, he never thought he’d get into acting. “I’m pretty reserved in most circumstances, so it never seemed like it would be a good fit,” he told the magazine. “But I kind of got thrust into it and realized that it could be an opportunity to be creative.”
Apparently, a production of Luigi Pirandello’s pioneering play “Six Characters in Search of an Author” was what helped Swift get into acting while he was attending the University of Notre Dame (Swift graduated in 2015 with a degree in film studies). In that same People interview, he said, “I got really worried I wasn’t good enough. It became clear I needed to either buckle down or walk away. I started staying after rehearsals every night and running the whole play by myself, over and over, acting every part until the sun came up. By opening day, it was a different play and I felt like I was a different person.” Taylor Swift is a known workaholic; apparently, it runs in the family.
