Tilda Swinton

Acting · 4.2 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

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

20086.6

Snowpiercer

20136.9

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

20087.6

Vanilla Sky

20016.8

Uncut Gems

20197.2

Isle of Dogs

20187.8

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

20106.4

Asteroid City

20236.5

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

20217.0

Three Thousand Years of Longing

20226.9

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

20228.0

The Beach

20006.5

Moonrise Kingdom

20127.7

Adaptation.

20027.3

Ballad of a Small Player

20255.8

Burn After Reading

20086.7

Hail, Caesar!

20165.9

Trainwreck

20155.8

Suspiria

20186.9

War Machine

20175.6

We Need to Talk About Kevin

20117.5

The Dead Don't Die

20195.4

The Room Next Door

20246.7

Okja

20177.3

Michael Clayton

20076.8

The Zero Theorem

20136.1

Young Adam

20035.9

A Bigger Splash

20156.1

Only Lovers Left Alive

20137.2

The End

20245.2

Broken Flowers

20056.9

The Personal History of David Copperfield

20196.4

The Souvenir

20196.1

Orlando

19926.9

I Am Love

20106.7

The Coen Brothers - An American Story

20256.5

Radioman

20126.3

Female Perversions

19965.1

Memoria

20216.0

The War Zone

19996.8

The Human Voice

20206.7

The Eternal Daughter

20225.9

Problemista

20246.8

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

20227.5

Thumbsucker

20056.2

Teknolust

20024.4

Edward II

19916.3

The Souvenir: Part II

20216.4

Aria

19875.3

The Tree

2025

Julia

20086.7

Last and First Men

20206.3

The Deep End

20016.2

Cannes Uncut

20235.3

Caravaggio

19866.1

The Statement

20035.7

Broken English

20267.5

Cycling the Frame

19886.8

The Limits of Control

20096.0

Caprice

19866.2

Planet Tilda

2011

WOLF

2026

Love Flesh

20136.5

Personal History

2023

Heart of Light: Eleven Songs for Fiji

2026

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

20215.5

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

19986.0

Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch

20146.0

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

20157.7

Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream

2026

Blue

19937.2

Deep Water

20067.2

Hot Dollar

2014

The Man from London

20087.0

Death for a Unicorn

20134.0

David Bowie: Five Years

20137.5

Letters from Generation Rx

20175.0

Cannes: All Access

20073.2

Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes

2006

The Open Universe

19937.0

async - first light

20176.0

Wittgenstein

19936.4

Finding the Burn

2008

Song 1

20121.0

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

20075.2

War Requiem

19896.3

When Björk Met Attenborough

20137.8

Tania Libre

2017

Man to Man

1992

Derek

20085.3

Ashes

20125.3

The Last of England

19876.0

The Garden

19905.7

The New Ten Commandments

20088.7

Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory

20027.0

Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards

2025

Derek Jarman: A Portrait

1991

Possible Worlds

20006.4

The Somme

20055.9

Behind Jim Jarmusch

2010

DC Insiders Run Amuck

2008

January Stories

2024

The Sluggard

1986

Play Me Something

19895.8

Antarctica: On the Edge

20146.4

Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

20156.1

Pasolini On Pasolini

2023

The Gospel According to St Derek

2014

Stephanie Daley

20075.8

Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

2013

Obertura

2024

Moments on the Set of I Am Love

2009

The Protagonists

19995.4

Instant Coffee

2025

Egomania: Island Without Hope

19875.3

Sleepwalkers

20076.7

Hitler's Favourite Royal

2007

Letters from Baghdad

20176.8

Transparent

20248.0

Hamlet

1992

Degrees of Blindness

19887.0

Dreams Rewired

20154.8

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

20145.0

Friendship's Death

19876.9

Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

19944.0

A Flower of Forgetfulness

2026

Conceiving Ada

19994.7

Visions of Heaven and Hell

19949.0

Some Thoughts On The Common Toad

20236.0

All Kinds of Love

20234.0

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

20206.0

Karl

2025

Your Cheatin' Heart

19908.0

The Dilapidated Dwelling

20006.7

The Party: Nature Morte

199110.0

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

20247.5

The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

20137.4

Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton.

201510.0

Death in Her Hands

2026

Chroma

2024

Impulse: Playing with Reality

2024

Camaraderie

2025

Faceless

2007

Strange Culture

20074.7

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

2020

Phantom of the Universe

2016

The Invisible Frame

20096.9

Phantoms

2025

Flat 19

2025

Climate of Change

2010

Tilda in de Menil Land

2014

Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project

2026

Glitterbug

19946.0

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

20175.7

Cinema Is Everywhere

20119.0

Sleep Song

2022

Absent Presence

2005

Depuis le Jour

1987

A Call to Arms

1989

Timeslip

2025

Volcano Saga

19897.0

Orlando In Uzbekistan

2010

One Water

2013

Goliath: Playing with Reality

2021

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze

2024

Durmiente

2022