In 2000, Hilary Barraford reluctantly joined a Boston model & talent agency as a favor to a friend. In that first year, she was cast as a bride in a flash of a scene in Moonlight Mile. The featured extra role was unlikely to launch a career, yet during those three days on set Hilary fell in love with production and reveled in watching director Brad Silberling, and his team, work. Serendipitously, she won a spot on an online casting site through a raffle at the film’s casting call – and the chance to explore acting.

The calls came soon. She booked independent films and commercials alike and began to take her hobby seriously. With no formal training, personal challenges served as seminars: notably, evolving from supporting comedic roles to dramatic lead roles.

Hilary has appeared in a dozen feature films and two dozen short films, as well as a plethora of commercials, industrials, and even a live sports broadcast for a season for the Single A affiliate of the World Champion Boston Red Sox (go Sox!).

As a model, Hilary brings an actor’s sensibility, and has recently appeared in a national print campaign and stock photography collection.

Hilary’s passion for creative pursuit literally sprouted out of the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, where embracing arts and literature at Williams College sparked a lifelong curiosity. A renaissance woman, she moonlights as writer, editor and producer – and has worked as much behind, as in front of, the camera.