10.0
10.0
Death of a World Star
1994
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tilda Swinton
Also known as: Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton, Katherine Matilda Swinton
Acting
Born:November 5, 1960(age 65)
Birthplace:London, England, UK
Nationality:United Kingdom
Height:5'10" (178 cm)
Education:Murray Edwards College, Fettes College, Queen's Gate School, West Heath Girls' School
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (157 movies)
9.0
9.0
Cinema Is Everywhere
2011
as Self
8.7
8.7
The New Ten Commandments
2008
Director
8.0
8.0
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
as Wood Sprite / Death (voice)
8.0
8.0
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Madame D.
8.0
8.0
Transparent
2024
7.8
7.8
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Oracle (voice)
7.8
7.8
When Björk Met Attenborough
2013
as Narrator (voice)
7.7
7.7
Moonrise Kingdom
2012
as Social Services
7.6
7.6
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
as Self
7.6
7.6
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
as Elizabeth Abbott
7.5
7.5
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011
Executive Producer
7.5
7.5
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
as Self
7.5
7.5
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024
as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice)
7.5
7.5
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
as Self (archive footage)
7.4
7.4
Doctor Strange
2016
as The Ancient One
7.3
7.3
Okja
2017
as Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando
7.3
7.3
Adaptation.
2002
as Valerie Thomas
7.3
7.3
Deep Water
2006
as Narrator (voice)
7.2
7.2
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
as Eve
7.2
7.2
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
2013
7.1
7.1
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
as White Witch
7.1
7.1
Constantine
2005
as Gabriel
7.1
7.1
The Man from London
2008
as Camélia
7.0
7.0
Blue
1993
as (voice)
7.0
7.0
The French Dispatch
2021
as J.K.L. Berensen
6.9
6.9
Snowpiercer
2013
as Mason
6.9
6.9
Orlando
1992
as Orlando
6.9
6.9
Broken Flowers
2005
as Penny
6.9
6.9
Suspiria
2018
as Madame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos
6.9
6.9
The Invisible Frame
2009
as The Cyclist
6.9
6.9
Cycling the Frame
1988
as The Cyclist
6.9
6.9
Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022
as Alithea
6.9
6.9
Problemista
2024
as Elizabeth
6.8
6.8
Vanilla Sky
2001
as Rebecca Dearborn
6.8
6.8
The War Zone
1999
as Mum
6.8
6.8
Friendship's Death
1987
as Friendship
6.8
6.8
The Room Next Door
2024
as Martha / Michelle
6.8
6.8
Michael Clayton
2007
as Karen Crowder
6.8
6.8
I Am Love
2010
Producer
6.8
6.8
The Human Voice
2020
as Woman
6.7
6.7
Sleepwalkers
2007
as Violinist Working As a Copy Clerk
6.7
6.7
Letters from Baghdad
2017
Executive Producer
6.7
6.7
Julia
2008
as Julia
6.7
6.7
Burn After Reading
2008
as Katie Cox
6.6
6.6
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008
as White Witch
6.6
6.6
The Killer
2023
as The Expert
6.5
6.5
Love Flesh
2013
as Self
6.5
6.5
Last and First Men
2020
as Narrator (voice)
6.5
6.5
The Beach
2000
as Sal
6.5
6.5
The Souvenir: Part II
2021
as Rosalind
6.4
6.4
Asteroid City
2023
as Dr. Hickenlooper
6.4
6.4
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010
as White Witch
6.4
6.4
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019
as Betsey Trotwood
6.4
6.4
War Requiem
1989
as The Nurse
6.4
6.4
Antarctica: On the Edge
2014
as Narrator (voice)
6.4
6.4
Possible Worlds
2000
as Joyce
6.3
6.3
Wittgenstein
1993
as Lady Ottoline Morrell
6.2
6.2
Cannes Uncut
2023
as Self
6.2
6.2
Caprice
1986
as Lucky
6.2
6.2
The Deep End
2001
as Margaret Hall
6.2
6.2
A Bigger Splash
2015
as Marianne Lane
6.1
6.1
Thumbsucker
2005
as Audrey Cobb
6.1
6.1
Edward II
1991
as Isabella
6.1
6.1
The Zero Theorem
2013
as Dr. Shrink-Rom
6.1
6.1
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
2015
as Self / Social Services
6.1
6.1
Caravaggio
1986
as Lena
6.1
6.1
The Souvenir
2019
as Rosalind
6.0
6.0
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
as Self (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
as Muriel Belcher
6.0
6.0
async - first light
2017
6.0
6.0
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990
6.0
6.0
Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
2023
as Narrator (voice)
6.0
6.0
The Eternal Daughter
2022
as Julie / Rosalind
6.0
6.0
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2014
as Self
6.0
6.0
Ott torony volt
2022
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
The Limits of Control
2009
as Blonde
6.0
6.0
Memoria
2021
Executive Producer
5.9
5.9
Hail, Caesar!
2016
as Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker
5.9
5.9
Glitterbug
1994
as Self
5.9
5.9
The Last of England
1987
as The Maid
5.8
5.8
Ballad of a Small Player
2025
as Cynthia Blithe
5.8
5.8
Stephanie Daley
2007
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
Young Adam
2003
as Ella Gault
5.8
5.8
Trainwreck
2015
as Dianna
5.7
5.7
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
2017
Writer
5.7
5.7
The Somme
2005
as Narrator (voice)
5.6
5.6
War Machine
2017
as German Politician
5.6
5.6
The Statement
2003
as Annemarie Livi
5.5
5.5
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021
as Self
5.5
5.5
The Garden
1990
as Madonna/Voice Overs
5.4
5.4
The Dead Don't Die
2019
as Zelda Winston
5.3
5.3
Aria
1987
as Young Girl
5.3
5.3
Derek
2008
Executive Producer
5.3
5.3
Ashes
2012
as Self
5.3
5.3
The End
2024
Producer
5.3
5.3
The Protagonists
1999
as Actress
5.0
5.0
Letters from Generation Rx
2017
as Narrator (voice)
5.0
5.0
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014
as Self
5.0
5.0
Play Me Something
1989
as Hairdresser
4.9
4.9
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
as Sally
4.9
4.9
Female Perversions
1997
as Evelyn Stephens
4.8
4.8
Dreams Rewired
2015
as Narrator (voice)
4.8
4.8
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
as Self
4.7
4.7
Strange Culture
2007
as Hope Kurtz
4.3
4.3
Conceiving Ada
1999
as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
4.3
4.3
Teknolust
2002
as Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive
4.0
4.0
Death for a Unicorn
2013
as Narrator (voice)
4.0
4.0
The Dilapidated Dwelling
2000
as Narrator (voice)
3.7
3.7
Cannes: All Access
2007
as Self
2.0
2.0
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1994
1.0
1.0
Song 1
2012
as Self
Degrees of Blindness
1988
Goliath: Playing with Reality
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Durmiente
2022
Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes
2006
as Self
Hamlet
TBA
as Ophelia
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
TBA
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010
as Self
Phantom of the Universe
2016
as Narrator
Climate of Change
2010
as Narrator (voice)
The Sluggard
1986
as The Sluggard
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
TBA
All Kinds of Love
2023
as Self
The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
2020
as Self
WOLF
TBA
Executive Producer
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
2024
Director
Death in Her Hands
TBA
as Vesta Gul
Chroma
2024
January Stories (version Harinezumi)
2024
Sleep Song
2022
Impulse: Playing with Reality
2024
as Narrator
Instant Coffee
2025
as Self
Hamlet
1992
as Ophelia
Karl
2025
as Self
Recipes for Phantoms
2025
as Herself
Finding the Burn
2008
as Self / Katie Cox (archive footage)
DC Insiders Run Amuck
2008
as Self
The Open Universe
1993
as Carla
Phantoms
2025
Broken English
2026
as The Overseer
The Party: Nature Morte
1991
as Queenie
Camaraderie
2025
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994
as Narrator (voice)
A Call to Arms
1989
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
2002
as Self
One Water
2013
Tania Libre
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Faceless
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Moments on the Set of I Am Love
2009
as Self
The Gospel According to St Derek
2014
as Self
Depuis le Jour
1987
Hitler's Favourite Royal
2007
as Narrator
Volcano Saga
1989
as Gudrun
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
1991
as Self
Man to Man
1992
as Ella / Max Gerike
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