Meet Austin Swift: Taylor Swift's Brother Who Joined Her at the Chiefs Game

Taylor Swift‘s brother, Austin Swift, has always been by his sister’s side, watching her rise to pop superstardom. Fans want to know more about him after Austin joined the “Karma” singer at boyfriend Travis Kelce‘s Kansas City Chiefs game on November 4, 2024.

Austin was born on March 11, 1992, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. He’s two-and-a-half years younger than Taylor. They grew up on the family’s Christmas tree farm until Taylor and the family relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, when she was a teen to pursue a career in country music.

Austin graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2015, where he received a bachelor’s degree in film studies.

Austin is an actor and producer after falling in love with film when he was young. He found solace with stars on the silver screen after not having many friends while in high school.

“I would go to the movies, and Daniel Craig was my friend, and Christian Bale was my friend, and Clive Owen was my friend, and Viggo Mortensen was my friend,” he told Vanity Fair in 2017.

Austin tried his hand at acting in college and scored his first leading role in Notre Dame’s production of Six Characters in Search of an Author.

“I got really worried I wasn’t good enough,” he told People in 2018 about his nerves during rehearsals. “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.”

After college, Austin landed his first film role in 2016’s crime thriller I.T. Later that year, he appeared in the Ben Affleck gangster period movie, Live by Night, which was also written and directed by the Oscar winner.

In 2018, Austin got his first toplining role in the film Cover Versions. His last acting credit was in the 2019 film Braking for Whales.

Austin tried his hand at TV, appearing in two episodes of Billy Ray Cyrus‘ CMT comedy Still the King in 2017, as well as the political comedy series Embeds that same year.

Austin served as a producer on Taylor’s 2009 music video for “You Belong With Me, and had an executive producer credit on her 2011 music video for “Mean.”

In 2020, Austin worked as an executive producer on Taylor Swift: Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, where the Grammy winner performed all of the songs on the album in order and shared personal stories and secrets behind the tunes.

He also served as a producer on Taylor’s 2021 music video for “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version),” which was directed by the singer’s close pal Blake Lively.

Taylor’s 2008 album Fearless featured the song “The Best Day,” which included the lyric, “God smiles on my little brother, inside and out, he’s better than I am.”

On her 2010 album Speak Now, Taylor sang of “all your little brother’s favorite songs” in the tune “Never Grow Up.”