Tilda Swinton
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.
Movies (159)
Heart of Light: Eleven Songs for Fiji
2026
WOLF
2026
A Flower of Forgetfulness
2026
Broken English
2026
The Coen Brothers - An American Story
2025
The Tree
2025
Flat 19
2025
Ballad of a Small Player
2025
Camaraderie
2025
Phantoms
2025
Timeslip
2025
Instant Coffee
2025
The End
2024
Impulse: Playing with Reality
2024
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024
The Room Next Door
2024
January Stories
2024
Obertura
2024
Chroma
2024
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
2024
Transparent
2024
Problemista
2024
The Killer
2023
Personal History
2023
All Kinds of Love
2023
Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
2023
Cannes Uncut
2023
Asteroid City
2023
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
The Eternal Daughter
2022
Durmiente
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021
Goliath: Playing with Reality
2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
The Souvenir: Part II
2021
Memoria
2021
The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
2020
The Human Voice
2020
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
Last and First Men
2020
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019
Uncut Gems
2019
The Souvenir
2019
The Dead Don't Die
2019
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Suspiria
2018
Isle of Dogs
2018
Letters from Generation Rx
2017
Okja
2017
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
2017
War Machine
2017
Letters from Baghdad
2017
async - first light
2017
Doctor Strange
2016
Phantom of the Universe
2016
Hail, Caesar!
2016
A Bigger Splash
2015
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
2015
Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton.
2015
Trainwreck
2015
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
Dreams Rewired
2015
Tilda in de Menil Land
2014
The Gospel According to St Derek
2014
Antarctica: On the Edge
2014
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2014
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
The Zero Theorem
2013
Snowpiercer
2013
Death for a Unicorn
2013
When Björk Met Attenborough
2013
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
One Water
2013
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
2013
Love Flesh
2013
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
2013
Radioman
2012
Ashes
2012
Moonrise Kingdom
2012
Song 1
2012
Planet Tilda
2011
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010
Climate of Change
2010
I Am Love
2010
The Invisible Frame
2009
The Limits of Control
2009
Moments on the Set of I Am Love
2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
The Man from London
2008
Burn After Reading
2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008
Julia
2008
Derek
2008
The New Ten Commandments
2008
Cannes: All Access
2007
Michael Clayton
2007
Stephanie Daley
2007
Faceless
2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
Strange Culture
2007
Sleepwalkers
2007
Hitler's Favourite Royal
2007
Deep Water
2006
Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes
2006
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
The Somme
2005
Thumbsucker
2005
Broken Flowers
2005
Constantine
2005
The Statement
2003
Young Adam
2003
Adaptation.
2002
Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
2002
Teknolust
2002
Vanilla Sky
2001
The Deep End
2001
The Dilapidated Dwelling
2000
Possible Worlds
2000
The Beach
2000
The Protagonists
1999
The War Zone
1999
Conceiving Ada
1999
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
Female Perversions
1996
Death of a World Star
1994
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1994
Glitterbug
1994
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994
The Open Universe
1993
Blue
1993
Wittgenstein
1993
Orlando
1992
Hamlet
1992
Man to Man
1992
Edward II
1991
The Party: Nature Morte
1991
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
1991
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990
The Garden
1990
Play Me Something
1989
War Requiem
1989
Volcano Saga
1989
A Call to Arms
1989
Cycling the Frame
1988
Degrees of Blindness
1988
The Last of England
1987
Friendship's Death
1987
Aria
1987
Depuis le Jour
1987
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
Caravaggio
1986
Caprice
1986
The Sluggard
1986
Death in Her Hands
TV Shows (19)
Fantasmas
2024
What If...?
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
2020
The Boys
2019
What We Do in the Shadows
2019
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Women, War & Peace
2011
Getting On
2009
Galapagos
2006
Made in Hollywood
2005
The Daily Show
1996
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990
Zastrozzi: A Romance
1986
The Oscars
1953
Golden Globe Awards
1944