Tilda Swinton
Date of birth: 1960-11-05
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Lutz Ebersdorf, Matilda Swinton, 蒂尔达·斯温顿, 凯瑟琳·玛蒂尔达·斯温顿, Katherine Swinton, 蒂尔达·斯文顿 饰, تیلدا سوینتون
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.
Movie Credits
Young Adam
2003-09-26
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he
Broken Flowers
2005-07-31
Introverted Don Johnston receives an anonymous letter from an ex-lover informing him that he has a s
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005-12-07
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia.
Constantine
2005-02-08
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve t
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010-12-02
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themsel
Thumbsucker
2005-09-16
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his d
Vanilla Sky
2001-12-14
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins fall
The Beach
2000-02-03
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumou
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008-05-15
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, L
Adaptation.
2002-12-06
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustr
Michael Clayton
2007-09-28
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while repres
Stephanie Daley
2007-04-20
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the bl
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008-12-25
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orle
Burn After Reading
2008-09-05
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998-09-16
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. Th
Caravaggio
1986-08-29
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava
The End
2024-12-06
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son
Julia
2008-03-12
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's
The Killer
2023-10-25
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he
The Man from London
2008-09-24
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase
The Limits of Control
2009-05-01
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While
The Deep End
2001-01-21
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. H
Orlando
1992-12-11
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she w
I Am Love
2010-03-19
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family
The Statement
2003-12-12
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War I
Durmiente
2022-11-10
Durmiente shows Tilda Swinton, the lead actress of Memoria, sleeping in a bedroom as the shadows gro
Female Perversions
1997-04-25
Eve Stephens, a beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney, is up for appointment as a judge. But belo
War Requiem
1989-01-06
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him i
The War Zone
1999-06-11
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a d
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
2013-01-01
This documentary explores Serge Diaghilev's roots, his genius for bringing together avant-garde comp
Edward II
1991-09-11
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origi
Possible Worlds
2000-09-04
The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships a
Aria
1987-05-27
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert
David Bowie: Five Years
2013-05-25
Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved: f
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011-09-28
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relation
Teknolust
2002-01-10
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recip
Climate of Change
2010-05-12
"We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old memb
The Invisible Frame
2009-11-12
In 1988, Cynthia Beatt and the young Tilda Swinton embarked on a filmic journey along the Berlin Wal
Cannes Uncut
2023-06-12
Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that
Blue
1993-08-19
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects an
Wittgenstein
1993-03-26
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge
Conceiving Ada
1999-02-19
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undyin
Cinema Is Everywhere
2011-10-22
A documentary feature film that ties four narratives - from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia - to
Glitterbug
1994-03-05
A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014-02-26
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars
Snowpiercer
2013-08-01
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class syst
The Garden
1990-09-06
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, p
Strange Culture
2007-02-09
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensembl
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013-12-12
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several ce
The Protagonists
1999-09-10
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few
The Zero Theorem
2013-09-20
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work inter
Love Flesh
2013-02-06
During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments
The Party: Nature Morte
1991-09-06
The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.
Radioman
2012-12-07
The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alc
Friendship's Death
1987-08-17
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go t
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007-02-16
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
The Dilapidated Dwelling
2000-10-06
Documentary with fictional elements exploring issues around housing in the United Kingdom.
Goliath: Playing with Reality
2021-11-01
After a decade of isolation in psychiatric institutions, Jon, a paranoid schizophrenic, finds his sa
Death for a Unicorn
2013-08-01
Little Billy’s life is tormented by his scheming aunt who drags him daily to the cemetery and forces
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987-05-20
Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amids
Moonrise Kingdom
2012-05-16
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the stor
Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
2023-06-17
A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation
Degrees of Blindness
1988-01-01
Inspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision.
Cycling the Frame
1988-08-30
In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the Brande
Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes
2006-01-24
The Sluggard
1986-01-01
A young woman lazes about while those around her try to maintain order. Produced in 1986 and release
Trainwreck
2015-07-17
Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face h
Hail, Caesar!
2016-02-05
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2014-04-22
A portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left A
The Room Next Door
2024-10-07
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine.
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
Described as being based on Weerasethakul's dreams.
All Kinds of Love
2023-06-20
Tilda Swinton recites a poem by Claes Oldenburg.
Uncut Gems
2019-08-30
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of h
A Bigger Splash
2015-11-26
An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Mar
Volcano Saga
1989-01-01
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxde
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
2015-09-22
Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary i
Dreams Rewired
2015-02-01
Tracing anxieties about technology back to the 1880s, DREAMS REWIRED combines clips from nearly 200
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022-12-09
With mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special captur
The Gospel According to St Derek
2014-10-20
Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bea
Sleepwalkers
2007-01-16
A bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make their wa
Deep Water
2006-12-15
DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsma
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1994-05-01
Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has develope
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015-02-05
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010-09-01
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the
Ballad of a Small Player
2025-10-15
Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past — and his debts — becomes fasc
The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
2020-11-06
A recorded Q&A hosted by Mark Kermode, where Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swintondiscuss the inspiratio
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
2024-06-13
A collection of thoughts and journeys. A dialogue between different forms of knowledge. A film about
Suspiria
2018-10-26
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
2017-06-23
The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox fo
Transparent
2024-06-12
Marking the 30th anniversary of Derek Jarman's passing, close friend and collaborator Tilda Swinton
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
2013-02-25
The official music video for "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" by David Bowie, it premiered on 25 Febru
Okja
2017-06-28
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnappi
Chroma
2024-07-21
On the afternoon of September 22nd, 2023, sunny, in the Summer Palace, in the glowing, colorful Kunm
War Machine
2017-05-26
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex
The Somme
2005-11-14
Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the West
Isle of Dogs
2018-03-23
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024-10-18
One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a hig
Play Me Something
1989-02-18
A group of individuals are stranded at a small island airport when the flight from the mainland is d
Derek
2008-02-19
Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's h
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990-10-11
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country musi
Letters from Baghdad
2017-04-21
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq
When Björk Met Attenborough
2013-07-26
Award-winning musician Björk and legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough have ad
Song 1
2012-03-22
An installation commissioned to be projected on the outer ring of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
async - first light
2017-04-01
A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. T
Antarctica: On the Edge
2014-10-19
Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, the most forbidding continent on Planet Earth. It
Memoria
2021-09-30
After hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, a Scottish woman begins experiencing a mysterious sensory s
The Souvenir
2019-05-17
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a char
Letters from Generation Rx
2017-07-18
As a result of the 2008 documentary"Generation Rx," thousands of people wrote director Kevin P. Mill
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019-11-07
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal His
The Open Universe
1993-10-16
The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he i
The Dead Don't Die
2019-05-15
In the sleepy town of Centerville, the lives of a number of interconnected characters are disrupted
Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022-08-24
A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who
A Call to Arms
1989-01-01
A woman dressed in armour sleeps on the floor of a dark, sunlit room. As she sleeps dreams and memoi
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021-10-21
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an
Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
2002-10-10
At the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, Tilda Swinton talks to director Luca Guadagnino about cinema, lonel
Last and First Men
2020-02-25
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a
Faceless
2007-03-20
In an eerily familiar city, a calendar reform has dispensed with the past and the future, leaving ci
The Souvenir: Part II
2021-10-11
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie
Caprice
1986-06-15
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film
Depuis le Jour
1987-05-27
Derek Jarman's interpretation of the aria 'Depuis le jour' from the final act of Gustave Charpentier
One Water
2013-04-05
Tilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film fes
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014-04-02
Documentary on the making of the film.
The Last of England
1987-08-23
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than p
Man to Man
1992-08-26
Shortly before the WW II, Ella Gericke takes on the identity of her husband Max after his death to w
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994-01-31
Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning
Cannes: All Access
2007-10-27
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Ca
The Human Voice
2020-09-03
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020-08-20
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilli
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022-11-09
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to
Doctor Strange
2016-10-25
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorc
Avengers: Endgame
2019-04-24
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
1991-01-25
A BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden, featuring
The Eternal Daughter
2022-12-02
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family ho
Tania Libre
2017-02-14
In 2015 reknown Cuban artist Tania Bruguera was imprisoned in Havana after advocating for freedom of
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021-12-10
Joining Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas on his annual pilgrimage to the Cannes Film Festival, f
Asteroid City
2023-06-08
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is
Ashes
2012-05-19
In collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website, Weerasethak
Problemista
2024-03-01
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to lif
Moments on the Set of I Am Love
2009-01-01
A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.
January Stories (version Harinezumi)
2024-10-02
This film featuring Tilda Swinton was shot early 2024, in a abandoned camp of the Kew Thab Yang Fore
Sleep Song
2022-01-01
"A ghost band only plays at night and in dreams. Tilda and Sam are carried away by their song as the
Death of a World Star
1994-06-01
A mockumentary - after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die.
The New Ten Commandments
2008-01-02
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scotti
Phantom of the Universe
2016-10-18
From the journey of protons racing through the world’s largest particle collider in Europe to up-clo
Impulse: Playing with Reality
2024-11-15
A look inside the ADHD brain and how it processes information.
Instant Coffee
2025-01-24
Hitler's Favourite Royal
2007-01-01
Prince Charles Edward was Queen Victoria's youngest grandchild. Brought up at Claremont House and ed
Death in Her Hands
An elderly widow's life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods.
Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne,
Hamlet
1992-12-07
Animated short adaptation of Hamlet featuring painted cels on glass. Originally broadcast as part of
Broken English
2025-08-29
A survivor, provocateur and true original, Marianne has spent more than six decades defying expectat
WOLF
Narrated by Tilda Swinton, WOLF is a deeply personal documentary about musician Patrick Wolf.
Karl
2025-08-29
“I have spent so much time playing a role that it’s almost impossible for anyone to know who I reall
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
Jenjira, a Thai widow, travels to the ancient Buddhist temple Sigiriya in Sri Lanka to scatter her h
Recipes for Phantoms
2025-09-29
An alternate cut of Phantoms shown by Weerasethakul and Swinton during their "Cinema copied my dream
Finding the Burn
2008-12-21
A featurette about the making of Burn After Reading, featuring cast and crew interviews.
DC Insiders Run Amuck
2008-12-21
A featurette about Burn After Reading featuring an interview with Joel and Ethan Coen and cast inter
Camaraderie
2025-09-28
For the exhibition "Tilda Swinton: Ongoing" at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Luca Guadagnino created
Phantoms
2025-09-28
An intimate, deeply personal film featuring footage Weerasethakul shot of Swinton in and around her