Hilary Swank announced her engagement to Ruben Torres

Hollywood actress Hilary Swank announced her engagement to her boyfriend Ruben Torres, a former professional tennis player after almost a year of dating. She also posted a photograph on her Instagram account of Tuesday 22nd March in which she is seen showing off her engagement ring while posing with Torres. According to a reliable source, Ruben Torres proposed to Swank over the weekend at the BNP Paribas Tennis Open that took place at Palm Springs. The couple then attended the Moet & Chandon’s inaugural champagne party on Saturday night looking excited and inseparable.

Hilary Swank

Torres, who is now a financial advisor, is a native of Colombia who went to the University of Southern California. After he retired from professional tennis, he now works as a wealth manager for UBS Financial services as well as a tennis coach. Swank and Torres have been romantically linked since July 2015. They made their red carpet debut as a couple in December while attending the annual kick-off party hosted by DuJour Magazine for Art Basel in Miami.

This will be the second marriage for the actress who won academy awards for her roles in Million Dollar Baby and The Boys Don’t cry. Swank, who is 41-years-old, was previously married to actor Chad Lowe between 1997 and 2007. When she won her first Oscar for best actress in 2000 for her role in Boys Don’t Cry’, she famously forgot to thank Lowe in her acceptance speech. All in all, she did remember to thanks her husband when she won the award again in 2005. However, they separated in 2006; with their divorce being finalized in November 2007.

Swank went on to have a relationship with her agent John Campisi, and they dated for six years until 2012 when they parted ways. Last summer, she announced that she would be taking a break from her work so that she can concentrate on looking after her ailing father who had just undergone a lung transplant. All in all, she began taking on new projects again and signed on to star in the television series The One Percent’ alongside Ed Harris. She also provided one of the voiceovers for an upcoming animated feature known as Spark.

The engagement ring that Torres used to propose to Swank is made of emerald. It has a special meaning for the two since emeralds originate from Colombia, where he is from.

Hilary Swank announced her engagement to Ruben Torres

It is an authentic Colombian emerald set on a platinum setting inspired by art-deco for a vintage feel. According to Swank’s representative, it is her favorite. The ring was made exclusively for Swank and Torres by Andres Jaramillo from a Colombia-based jewelry brand known as Tres Almas. Swank proudly wore the ring in the stands of the tennis tournament that took place on Saturday in Indiana Wells.

It remains to be seen whether Swank has finally found true love, and people are curious to see if the marriage will last longer than her previous one. Celebrity marriages are notoriously short lived, especially those involving top Hollywood stars such as Swank. All in all, lets hope she learnt a lot from her other marriage to make this one work.