Tilda Swinton

Acting · 3.8 popularity

Age

Movies

172

Born: November 5, 1960
From: London, England, UK

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.

Works

172 films

Avengers: Endgame

20198.2

Doctor Strange

20167.4

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

20057.1

The Grand Budapest Hotel

20148.0

Constantine

20057.2

The Killer

20236.6

Snowpiercer

20136.9

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

20087.6

Uncut Gems

20197.2

Isle of Dogs

20187.8

Vanilla Sky

20016.8

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

20086.6

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

20106.4

Asteroid City

20236.5

Three Thousand Years of Longing

20226.9

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

20217.0

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

20228.0

Adaptation.

20027.3

Hail, Caesar!

20165.9

The Beach

20006.5

Moonrise Kingdom

20127.7

Ballad of a Small Player

20255.8

Trainwreck

20155.8

Suspiria

20186.9

War Machine

20175.6

Burn After Reading

20086.7

The Dead Don't Die

20195.4

We Need to Talk About Kevin

20117.5

The Room Next Door

20246.7

Okja

20177.3

Michael Clayton

20076.8

Only Lovers Left Alive

20137.2

A Bigger Splash

20156.1

Young Adam

20035.9

The Zero Theorem

20136.1

The Personal History of David Copperfield

20196.4

Broken Flowers

20056.9

The Souvenir

20196.1

The End

20245.2

Orlando

19926.9

Problemista

20246.8

The War Zone

19996.8

Female Perversions

19965.1

Teknolust

20024.4

Memoria

20216.0

Cannes Uncut

20235.3

Thumbsucker

20056.2

The Coen Brothers - An American Story

20256.5

I Am Love

20106.7

Edward II

19916.3

Radioman

20126.3

Aria

19875.3

Last and First Men

20206.3

The Human Voice

20206.7

Planet Tilda

2011

The Eternal Daughter

20225.9

The Deep End

20016.2

The Limits of Control

20096.0

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

20227.5

Caravaggio

19866.1

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

19986.0

Caprice

19866.2

Julia

20086.7

The Souvenir: Part II

20216.4

The Statement

20035.7

Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream

2026

Hot Dollar

2014

Broken English

20267.5

The Tree

2025

The Man from London

20087.0

WOLF

2026

Personal History

2023

Heart of Light: Eleven Songs for Fiji

2026

Cannes: All Access

20073.2

Blue

19937.2

Cycling the Frame

19886.8

Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch

20146.0

Death for a Unicorn

20134.0

Instant Coffee

2025

Wittgenstein

19936.4

The Open Universe

19937.0

Derek

20085.3

Stephanie Daley

20075.8

War Requiem

19896.3

Song 1

20121.0

Love Flesh

20136.5

Letters from Generation Rx

20175.0

Ashes

20125.3

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

20075.2

Man to Man

1992

The New Ten Commandments

20088.7

DC Insiders Run Amuck

2008

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

20215.5

Deep Water

20067.2

Possible Worlds

20006.4

Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes

2006

David Bowie: Five Years

20137.5

Finding the Burn

2008

The Garden

19905.7

The Somme

20055.9

Behind Jim Jarmusch

2010

The Protagonists

19995.4

Play Me Something

19895.8

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

20157.7

async - first light

20176.0

Tania Libre

2017

Absent Presence

2005

The Last of England

19876.0

Derek Jarman: A Portrait

1991

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

20206.0

Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

19944.0

Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

20156.1

Dreams Rewired

20154.8

When Björk Met Attenborough

20137.8

Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory

20027.0

The Sluggard

1986

Transparent

20248.0

January Stories

2024

Letters from Baghdad

20176.8

Antarctica: On the Edge

20146.4

All Kinds of Love

20234.0

Sleepwalkers

20076.7

Hitler's Favourite Royal

2007

Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards

2025

Friendship's Death

19876.9

Egomania: Island Without Hope

19875.3

The Gospel According to St Derek

2014

Obertura

2024

Karl

2025

Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton.

201510.0

Some Thoughts On The Common Toad

20236.0

Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

2013

Pasolini On Pasolini

2023

Strange Culture

20074.7

Phantoms

2025

Conceiving Ada

19994.7

The Party: Nature Morte

199110.0

Climate of Change

2010

Moments on the Set of I Am Love

2009

A Flower of Forgetfulness

2026

Chroma

2024

The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

20137.4

The Dilapidated Dwelling

20006.7

Visions of Heaven and Hell

19949.0

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

20247.5

Hamlet

1992

Degrees of Blindness

19887.0

Death in Her Hands

2026

Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen

20145.0

Faceless

2007

Your Cheatin' Heart

19908.0

The Invisible Frame

20096.9

Impulse: Playing with Reality

2024

The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode

2020

Glitterbug

19946.0

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

20175.7

Goliath: Playing with Reality

2021

Timeslip

2025

Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project

2026

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze

2024

Camaraderie

2025

Phantom of the Universe

2016

Flat 19

2025

Tilda in de Menil Land

2014

A Call to Arms

1989

Depuis le Jour

1987

Sleep Song

2022

Volcano Saga

19897.0

Orlando In Uzbekistan

2010

Cinema Is Everywhere

20119.0

One Water

2013

Durmiente

2022