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Tilda Swinton

Actress / Voice Actress / Stage Actress / Film Actress / Film Director / Screenwriter | * 11/05/1960 (63) | London, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Swinton began her career by appearing in Derek Jarman's experimental films Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), and The Garden (1990). Swinton 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 was nominated for th... ()
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Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various accolades throughout her career, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations 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 filmmaker and recognises 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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks do ...

Suspiria

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2018 | 3.5/5 | 2h 32min
Horror, Mystery, Drama
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In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engi ...

Snowpiercer

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2013 | 3.5/5 | 2h 7min
Action, Science Fiction, Drama
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After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager. ...

We Need to Talk About Kevin

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2011 | 3.8/5 | 1h 53min
Drama, Thriller
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A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit. ...

Michael Clayton

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2007 | 3.4/5 | 1h 59min
Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Crime
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Awards & Nominations for Tilda Swinton

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress European Film Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Volpi Cup for Best Actress 2x Saturn Award for Best Actress Mary Pickford Award Sitges Grand Honorary Award Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress César Award for Best Actress 2x European Film Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role AACTA International Award for Best Actress 2x Saturn Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Tilda Swinton as Actress(116)

as Elizabeth2024 Problemista
2023 Asteroid City
as herself2023 Cannes Uncut
2023 The End
2023 The Killer
as Julie / Rosalind2022 The Eternal Daughter
as Wood Sprite / Death (voice)2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
as Alithea2022 Three Thousand Years of Longing
as herself2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
as Rosalind2021 The Souvenir: Part II
as herself2021 The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
as J. K. L. Berensen2021 The French Dispatch
as Jessica Holland2021 Memoria
2020 Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
as Woman2020 The Human Voice
as Narrator (voice)2020 Last and First Men
as Anne "Adley's Auction Manager" (voice)2019 Uncut Gems
as Rosalind2019 The Souvenir
as The Ancient One2019 Avengers: Endgame
as Zelda Winston2019 The Dead Don't Die
as Betsey Trotwood2019 The Personal History of David Copperfield
as Madame Blanc / Helena Markos / Dr. Klemperer2018 Suspiria
as Oracle (voice)2018 Isle of Dogs
as German Politician2017 War Machine
as herself2017 The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
as Narrator (voice)2017 Letters from Generation Rx
as Narrator2017 Tania Libre
as Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando2017 Okja
as Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker2016 Hail, Caesar!
as The Ancient One2016 Doctor Strange
as Gertrude Bell (voice)2016 Letters from Baghdad
as Dianna2015 Trainwreck
as Marianne Lane2015 A Bigger Splash
as herself2015 B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
as Narrator2015 Dreams Rewired
as Narrator2014 Antarctica: On the Edge
as Madame D.2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel
as herself2014 Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
as herself2014 Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
as herself2014 The Gospel According to St Derek
as Minister Mason2013 Snowpiercer
as Narrator2013 When Björk Met Attenborough
as Narrator (voice)2013 Death for a Unicorn
as Narrator2013 Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
as Dr. Shrink-Rom2013 The Zero Theorem
as herself2013 Love Flesh
as Self (archive footage)2013 David Bowie: Five Years
as Eve2013 Only Lovers Left Alive
as herself2012 Ashes
as Social Services2012 Moonrise Kingdom
as herself2012 Song 1
as herself2011 Cinema Is Everywhere
as Eva Khatchadourian2011 We Need to Talk About Kevin
as The White Witch2010 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
as herself2010 14 Actors Acting
as Narrator2010 Climate of Change
as Emma Recchi2009 I Am Love
as The Cyclist2009 The Invisible Frame
as Blonde2009 The Limits of Control
as Julia2008 Julia
as White Witch2008 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as Katie Cox2008 Burn After Reading
as Elizabeth Abbott2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
as Narrator2008 Derek
as Hope Kurtz2007 Strange Culture
as Karen Crowder2007 Michael Clayton
as Lydie Crane2007 Stephanie Daley
as herself2007 Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Camélia2007 The Man from London
as herself2007 Cannes: All Access
as Violinist working as a Copy Clerk2007 Sleepwalkers
as Narrator (voice)2007 Faceless
as Narrator2006 Deep Water
as White Witch2005 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
as Gabriel2005 Constantine
as Penny2005 Broken Flowers
as Audrey Cobb2005 Thumbsucker
as Narrator2005 The Somme
as Annemarie Livi2003 The Statement
as Ella Gault2003 Young Adam
as herself2002 Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
as Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive2002 Teknolust
as Valerie Thomas2002 Adaptation.
as Rebecca Dearborn2001 Vanilla Sky
as Margaret Hall2001 The Deep End
as Sal2000 The Beach
as Joyce2000 Possible Worlds
as Narrator2000 The Dilapidated Dwelling
as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace1999 Conceiving Ada
as Actress1999 The Protagonists
as Mum1999 The War Zone
as Muriel Belcher1998 Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
as Eve Stephens1996 Female Perversions
as Narrator1994 Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994 Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
as herself1994 Glitterbug
1993 Blue
as Lady Ottoline Morrell1993 Wittgenstein
as Carla1993 The Open Universe
as Orlando1992 Orlando
as Ophelia (voice)1992 Hamlet
as Ella / Max Gerike1992 Man to Man
as herself1991 Derek Jarman: A Portrait
as Isabella1991 Edward II
as Madonna/Voice Overs1990 The Garden
as Hairdresser1989 Play Me Something
as Gudrun1989 Volcano Saga
as The Nurse1989 War Requiem
1988 Degrees of Blindness
as The Cyclist1988 Cycling the Frame
as Sally1987 Egomania: Island Without Hope
as Young Girl1987 Aria
as Friendship1987 Friendship's Death
as The Maid1987 The Last of England
as Lena1986 Caravaggio
as Lucky1986 Caprice

TV Shows/Series with Tilda Swinton as Actress(9)

as The Ancient One (voice)2021 What If...?
as Tilda2019 What We Do in the Shadows
as herself2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Elke2009 Getting On
as Self - Presenter2006 Galapagos
as herself1996 The Daily Show
as Ophelia (voice)1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Cissie Crouch1990 Your Cheatin' Heart
as Julia1986 Zastrozzi: A Romance

Movies with Tilda Swinton as Crew(13)

Production/Executive Producer2021 Memoria
Directing/Director2017 The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
Writing/Writer2017 The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
Production/Co-Producer2017 Okja
Production/Executive Producer2016 Letters from Baghdad
Writing/Idea2012 Here
Production/Executive Producer2011 We Need to Talk About Kevin
Production/Producer2009 I Am Love
Production/Executive Producer2008 Derek
Writing/Writer2008 Derek
Directing/Director2008 The New Ten Commandments
Production/Executive Producer2007 Stephanie Daley
Production/Co-Executive Producer2005 Thumbsucker

Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Saturday, 11/05 1960 (November) in London, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 63 years + 174 days)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Murray Edwards College, Fettes College, Queen's Gate School, West Heath Girls' School
Children: Xavier Swinton Byrne, Honor Swinton Byrne
Father: John Swinton
Mother: Judith Balfour Killen
Related to: Elizabeth Ebsworth
Other names for Tilda Swinton (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Lutz Ebersdorf"
"Matilda Swinton"
"ティルダ・スウィントン"
"Тильда Суинтон"
"Katherine Matilda Swinton"
Tilda Swinton frequently works together with these people:
Derek Jarman (27x, Crew)
Wes Anderson (19x, Crew)
Luca Guadagnino (15x, Crew)
Simon Fisher-Turner (13x, Crew)
Joanna Hogg (12x, Crew)
Lynn Hershman-Leeson (11x, Crew)
Jim Jarmusch (9x, Crew)
Alexandre Desplat (8x, Crew)
Roman Coppola (8x, Crew)
Bong Joon-ho (8x, Crew)
James Mackay (8x, Crew)
Taika Waititi (6x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:313, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/24/2024