Acting
Tilda Swinton
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
Broken English
Film · 2026
WOLF
Film · 2026
Heart of Light: Eleven Songs for Fiji
Film · 2026
A Flower of Forgetfulness
Film · 2026
Queer Edward II
Film · 2026
Ballad of a Small Player
Film · 2025
Instant Coffee
Film · 2025
Karl
Film · 2025
Camaraderie
Film · 2025
Phantoms
Film · 2025
The Coen Brothers Story
Film · 2025
The Tree
Film · 2025
Timeslip
Film · 2025
Flat 19
Film · 2025
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
Film · 2025
The End
Film · 2024
The Room Next Door
Film · 2024
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
Film · 2024
Transparent
Film · 2024
Chroma
Film · 2024
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
Film · 2024
Problemista
Film · 2024
January Stories
Film · 2024
Impulse: Playing with Reality
Film · 2024
Obertura
Film · 2024
Fantasmas
Series · 2024
The Killer
Film · 2023
Cannes Uncut
Film · 2023
Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
Film · 2023
All Kinds of Love
Film · 2023
Asteroid City
Film · 2023
Personal History
Film · 2023
Pasolini On Pasolini
Film · 2023
Durmiente
Film · 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Film · 2022
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Film · 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Film · 2022
The Eternal Daughter
Film · 2022
Sleep Song
Film · 2022
Goliath: Playing with Reality
Film · 2021
Memoria
Film · 2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Film · 2021
The Souvenir: Part II
Film · 2021
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Film · 2021
What If...?
Series · 2021
Marvel Studios Legends
Series · 2021
The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
Film · 2020
Last and First Men
Film · 2020
The Human Voice
Film · 2020
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Film · 2020
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
Series · 2020
Uncut Gems
Film · 2019
The Souvenir
Film · 2019
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Film · 2019
The Dead Don't Die
Film · 2019
Avengers: Endgame
Film · 2019
What We Do in the Shadows
Series · 2019
The Boys
Series · 2019
Suspiria
Film · 2018
Isle of Dogs
Film · 2018
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
Film · 2017
Okja
Film · 2017
War Machine
Film · 2017
Letters from Baghdad
Film · 2017
async - first light
Film · 2017
Letters from Generation Rx
Film · 2017
Tania Libre
Film · 2017
Hail, Caesar!
Film · 2016
Doctor Strange
Film · 2016
Phantom of the Universe
Film · 2016
Trainwreck
Film · 2015
A Bigger Splash
Film · 2015
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Film · 2015
Mobilisierung der Träume
Film · 2015
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Film · 2015
Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton.
Film · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Film · 2014
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
Film · 2014
The Gospel According to St Derek
Film · 2014
Antarctica: On the Edge
Film · 2014
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
Film · 2014
Hot Dollar
Film · 2014
Tilda in de Menil Land
Film · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Series · 2014
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Film · 2013
David Bowie: Five Years
Film · 2013
Snowpiercer
Film · 2013
Only Lovers Left Alive
Film · 2013
The Zero Theorem
Film · 2013
Love Flesh
Film · 2013
Death for a Unicorn
Film · 2013
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Film · 2013
When Björk Met Attenborough
Film · 2013
One Water
Film · 2013
Rick and Morty
Series · 2013
Radioman
Film · 2012
Moonrise Kingdom
Film · 2012
Song 1
Film · 2012
Ashes
Film · 2012
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film · 2011
Cinema Is Everywhere
Film · 2011
Planet Tilda
Film · 2011
Women, War & Peace
Series · 2011
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Film · 2010
I Am Love
Film · 2010
Climate of Change
Film · 2010
Behind Jim Jarmusch
Film · 2010
Orlando In Uzbekistan
Film · 2010
The Limits of Control
Film · 2009
The Invisible Frame
Film · 2009
Moments on the Set of I Am Love
Film · 2009
Getting On
Series · 2009
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Film · 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Film · 2008
Burn After Reading
Film · 2008
Julia
Film · 2008
The Man from London
Film · 2008
Derek
Film · 2008
The New Ten Commandments
Film · 2008
Finding the Burn
Film · 2008
DC Insiders Run Amuck
Film · 2008
Michael Clayton
Film · 2007
Stephanie Daley
Film · 2007
Strange Culture
Film · 2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Film · 2007
Sleepwalkers
Film · 2007
Faceless
Film · 2007
Cannes: All Access
Film · 2007
Deep Water
Film · 2006
Galapagos
Series · 2006
Broken Flowers
Film · 2005
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Film · 2005
Constantine
Film · 2005
Thumbsucker
Film · 2005
The Somme
Film · 2005
Absent Presence
Film · 2005
Made in Hollywood
Series · 2005
Young Adam
Film · 2003
The Statement
Film · 2003
Adaptation.
Film · 2002
Teknolust
Film · 2002
Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
Film · 2002
Vanilla Sky
Film · 2001
The Deep End
Film · 2001
The Beach
Film · 2000
Possible Worlds
Film · 2000
The Dilapidated Dwelling
Film · 2000
The War Zone
Film · 1999
Conceiving Ada
Film · 1999
The Protagonists
Film · 1999
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Film · 1998
Female Perversions
Film · 1996
The Daily Show
Series · 1996
Glitterbug
Film · 1994
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Film · 1994
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Film · 1994
Blue
Film · 1993
Wittgenstein
Film · 1993
Orlando
Film · 1992
Man to Man
Film · 1992
Hamlet
Film · 1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Series · 1992
Edward II
Film · 1991
The Party: Nature Morte
Film · 1991
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
Film · 1991
The Garden
Film · 1990
Your Cheatin' Heart
Film · 1990
The Open Universe
Film · 1990
Your Cheatin' Heart
Series · 1990
War Requiem
Film · 1989
Volcano Saga
Film · 1989
Play Me Something
Film · 1989
A Call to Arms
Film · 1989
Degrees of Blindness
Film · 1988
Cycling the Frame
Film · 1988
L'ispirazione
Film · 1988
Aria
Film · 1987
Friendship's Death
Film · 1987
Egomania: Island Without Hope
Film · 1987
Depuis le Jour
Film · 1987
The Last of England
Film · 1987
Caravaggio
Film · 1986
The Sluggard
Film · 1986
Caprice
Film · 1986
Zastrozzi: A Romance
Series · 1986
ScreenPlay
Series · 1986
Screen Two
Series · 1985
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
Film
Hitler's Favourite Royal
Film
Death in Her Hands
Film
Jenjira's Magnificent Dream
Film