Tilda Swinton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 5, 1960 (age 66)
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
Biography
Katherine Matilda Swinton (born November 5, 1960) is an award-winning British actress of Scottish descent, known for her versatile roles in independent films and blockbusters. She is a recipient various accolades throughout her long career, including an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards, in addition to being nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. Swinton began her career by appearing in experimental films starting with Caravaggio (1986), followed by The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), and The Garden (1990). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Isabella of France in Edward II (1991). She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992), for which she received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End (2001), and followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky (2001), Adaptation (2002), Constantine (2005), Julia (2008), and I Am Love (2009). For the film Young Adam (2003), she won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actress. Her performance in Michael Clayton (2007) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Additionally, she won the European Film Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). Swinton has also played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series (2005–2010) and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. Swinton was awarded the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry. In 2013, she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, Swinton was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship, the highest honour presented by the institution, for her "daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and film-maker and recognizes her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy." That same year, The New York Times ranked her thirteenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century up to that point.
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Filmography
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
Movie
Hitler's Favourite Royal
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Death in Her Hands
Movie · as Vesta Gul
Jenjira's Magnificent Dream
Movie
Broken English
Movie · as The Overseer
WOLF
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Heart of Light: Eleven Songs for Fiji
Movie
A Flower of Forgetfulness
Movie
Queer Edward II
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Ballad of a Small Player
Movie · as Cynthia Blithe
Instant Coffee
Movie · as Self
Karl
Movie · as Self
Camaraderie
Movie
Phantoms
Movie
The Coen Brothers Story
Movie · as Self
The Tree
Movie
Timeslip
Movie
Flat 19
Movie
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
Movie · as Self (archive)
Embodying Pasolini
Movie · as Multiple
Moon: Nature's Secret Force
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
The End
Movie · as Mother
The Room Next Door
Movie · as Martha / Michelle
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
Movie · as Self
Transparent
Movie
Chroma
Movie
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
Movie · as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice)
Problemista
Movie · as Elizabeth
January Stories
Movie
Impulse: Playing with Reality
Movie · as Narrator
Obertura
Movie · as The Gardenerette
Fantasmas
TV · as Water (voice) · 1 ep
The Killer
Movie · as The Expert
Cannes Uncut
Movie · as Self
Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
All Kinds of Love
Movie · as Self
Asteroid City
Movie · as Dr. Hickenlooper
Personal History
Movie
Pasolini On Pasolini
Movie · as Narrator
Durmiente
Movie
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Movie · as Self
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Movie · as Alithea
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Movie · as Wood Sprite / Death (voice)
The Eternal Daughter
Movie · as Julie / Rosalind
Sleep Song
Movie
Goliath: Playing with Reality
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Memoria
Movie · as Jessica Holland
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Movie · as J.K.L. Berensen
The Souvenir: Part II
Movie · as Rosalind
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Movie · as Self
What If...?
TV · as The Ancient One (voice) · 1 ep
Marvel Studios Legends
TV · as The Ancient One (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1 ep
The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
Movie · as Self
Last and First Men
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Human Voice
Movie · as Woman
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 14 eps
Uncut Gems
Movie · as Anne - Adley's Auction Manager (voice)
The Souvenir
Movie · as Rosalind
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Movie · as Betsey Trotwood
The Dead Don't Die
Movie · as Zelda Winston
Avengers: Endgame
Movie · as The Ancient One
What We Do in the Shadows
TV · as Tilda · 1 ep
The Boys
TV · as Ambrosius (voice) · 3 eps
Suspiria
Movie · as Madame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos
Isle of Dogs
Movie · as Oracle (voice)
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
Movie · as Self
Okja
Movie · as Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando
War Machine
Movie · as German Politician
Letters from Baghdad
Movie · as Gertrude Bell (voice)
async - first light
Movie
Letters from Generation Rx
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Tania Libre
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Hail, Caesar!
Movie · as Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker
Doctor Strange
Movie · as The Ancient One
Phantom of the Universe
Movie · as Narrator
Trainwreck
Movie · as Dianna
A Bigger Splash
Movie · as Marianne Lane
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Movie · as Self / Social Services
Mobilisierung der Träume
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Movie · as Self
Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton.
Movie · as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Movie · as Madame D.
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
Movie · as Self
The Gospel According to St Derek
Movie · as Self
Antarctica: On the Edge
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
Movie · as Self
Hot Dollar
Movie
Tilda in de Menil Land
Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
David Bowie: Five Years
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Snowpiercer
Movie · as Mason
Only Lovers Left Alive
Movie · as Eve
The Zero Theorem
Movie · as Dr. Shrink-Rom
Love Flesh
Movie · as Self
Death for a Unicorn
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Movie
When Björk Met Attenborough
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
One Water
Movie
Rick and Morty
TV · as The Collective (voice) · 1 ep
Radioman
Movie · as Self
Moonrise Kingdom
Movie · as Social Services
Song 1
Movie · as Self
Ashes
Movie · as Self
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Movie · as Eva Khatchadourian
Cinema Is Everywhere
Movie · as Self
Planet Tilda
Movie
Women, War & Peace
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Movie · as White Witch
I Am Love
Movie · as Emma Recchi
Climate of Change
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Behind Jim Jarmusch
Movie · as Self
Orlando In Uzbekistan
Movie · as Self
The Limits of Control
Movie · as Blonde
The Invisible Frame
Movie · as The Cyclist
Moments on the Set of I Am Love
Movie · as Self
Getting On
TV · as Elke · 1 ep
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Movie · as White Witch
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Movie · as Elizabeth Abbott
Burn After Reading
Movie · as Katie Cox
Julia
Movie · as Julia
The Man from London
Movie · as Camélia
Derek
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The New Ten Commandments
Movie · as Self
Finding the Burn
Movie · as Self / Katie Cox (archive footage)
DC Insiders Run Amuck
Movie · as Self
Michael Clayton
Movie · as Karen Crowder
Stephanie Daley
Movie · as Lydie Crane
Strange Culture
Movie · as Hope Kurtz
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Movie · as Self
Sleepwalkers
Movie · as Violinist Working As a Copy Clerk
Faceless
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Cannes: All Access
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Deep Water
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Galapagos
TV · as Self - Presenter · 3 eps
Broken Flowers
Movie · as Penny
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Movie · as White Witch
Constantine
Movie · as Gabriel
Thumbsucker
Movie · as Audrey Cobb
The Somme
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Absent Presence
Movie
Made in Hollywood
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Young Adam
Movie · as Ella Gault
The Statement
Movie · as Annemarie Livi
Adaptation.
Movie · as Valerie Thomas
Teknolust
Movie · as Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive
Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
Movie · as Self
Vanilla Sky
Movie · as Rebecca Dearborn
The Deep End
Movie · as Margaret Hall
The Beach
Movie · as Sal
Possible Worlds
Movie · as Joyce
The Dilapidated Dwelling
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The War Zone
Movie · as Mum
Conceiving Ada
Movie · as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
The Protagonists
Movie · as Actress
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Movie · as Muriel Belcher
Female Perversions
Movie · as Evelyn Stephens
The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Glitterbug
Movie · as Self
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Movie
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Blue
Movie · as (voice)
Wittgenstein
Movie · as Lady Ottoline Morrell
Orlando
Movie · as Orlando
Man to Man
Movie · as Ella / Max Gerike
Hamlet
Movie · as Ophelia
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV · as Ophelia (voice) · 1 ep
Edward II
Movie · as Isabella
The Party: Nature Morte
Movie · as Queenie
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
Movie · as Self
The Garden
Movie · as Madonna/Voice Overs
Your Cheatin' Heart
Movie
The Open Universe
Movie · as Carla
Your Cheatin' Heart
TV · as Cissie Crouch · 6 eps
War Requiem
Movie · as The Nurse
Volcano Saga
Movie · as Gudrun
Play Me Something
Movie · as Hairdresser
A Call to Arms
Movie
Degrees of Blindness
Movie
Cycling the Frame
Movie · as The Cyclist
L'ispirazione
Movie
Aria
Movie · as Young Girl
Friendship's Death
Movie · as Friendship
Egomania: Island Without Hope
Movie · as Sally
Depuis le Jour
Movie
The Last of England
Movie · as The Maid
Caravaggio
Movie · as Lena
The Sluggard
Movie · as The Sluggard
Caprice
Movie · as Lucky
Zastrozzi: A Romance
TV · as Julia · 4 eps
ScreenPlay
TV · as Ella / Max Gerike · 1 ep
Screen Two
TV · as Isabella · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep