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.
192 acting credits · 5 directing credits
Acting · 192
The Boys
2019
Rick and Morty
2013
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
What If...?
2021
What We Do in the Shadows
2019
The Oscars
1953
Constantine
2005
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
Doctor Strange
2016
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Snowpiercer
2013
Made in Hollywood
2005
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008
The Killer
2023
ScreenPlay
1986
Isle of Dogs
2018
Uncut Gems
2019
Asteroid City
2023
Fantasmas
2024
Suspiria
2018
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
Okja
2017
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011
Trainwreck
2015
Burn After Reading
2008
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
Vanilla Sky
2001
Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022
Moonrise Kingdom
2012
Hail, Caesar!
2016
The Room Next Door
2024
War Machine
2017
The Beach
2000
The Dead Don't Die
2019
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
2020
Young Adam
2003
Michael Clayton
2007
A Bigger Splash
2015
Adaptation.
2002
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
Getting On
2009
The End
2024
Problemista
2024
Broken Flowers
2005
Orlando
1992
The Zero Theorem
2013
Ballad of a Small Player
2025
The War Zone
1999
Women, War & Peace
2011
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014
Aria
1987
The Souvenir
2019
Radioman
2012
Caravaggio
1986
Female Perversions
1996
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990
Last and First Men
2020
Memoria
2021
I Am Love
2010
Thumbsucker
2005
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
The Coen Brothers - An American Story
2025
The Limits of Control
2009
Zastrozzi: A Romance
1986
Galapagos
2006
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
2015
The Souvenir: Part II
2021
Broken English
2026
Blue
1993
The Eternal Daughter
2022
Edward II
1991
The Deep End
2001
Julia
2008
The Statement
2003
Teknolust
2002
Cannes Uncut
2023
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
Cannes: All Access
2007
Stephanie Daley
2007
The Protagonists
1999
Deep Water
2006
Wittgenstein
1993
The Human Voice
2020
The Man from London
2008
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1994
The Garden
1990
The Tree
2025
Heart of Light: Eleven Songs for Fiji
2026
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes
2006
Caprice
1986
Conceiving Ada
1999
The Somme
2005
War Requiem
1989
The New Ten Commandments
2008
Sleepwalkers
2007
Friendship's Death
1987
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
Cinema Is Everywhere
2011
async - first light
2017
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
2017
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994
The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
2020
The Party: Nature Morte
1991
Possible Worlds
2000
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
The Invisible Frame
2009
Song 1
2012
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
DC Insiders Run Amuck
2008
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
2013
The Open Universe
1993
When Björk Met Attenborough
2013
The Last of England
1987
Antarctica: On the Edge
2014
Finding the Burn
2008
The Gospel According to St Derek
2014
Hot Dollar
2014
January Stories
2024
Ashes
2012
Transparent
2024
Volcano Saga
1989
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
—
Death for a Unicorn
2013
Hitler's Favourite Royal
2007
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2014
Play Me Something
1989
Letters from Generation Rx
2017
Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton.
2015
Karl
2025
Camaraderie
2025
Strange Culture
2007
Hamlet
1992
Letters from Baghdad
2017
Depuis le Jour
1987
Degrees of Blindness
1988
Dreams Rewired
2015
Orlando In Uzbekistan
2010
Sleep Song
2022
Tania Libre
2017
Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
2023
Derek
2008
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
1991
Death of a World Star
1994
Cycling the Frame
1988
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
2013
Moments on the Set of I Am Love
2009
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
2024
The Dilapidated Dwelling
2000
All Kinds of Love
2023
Phantoms
2025
Climate of Change
2010
Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
2002
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024
Faceless
2007
WOLF
2026
Phantom of the Universe
2016
Love Flesh
2013
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010
The Sluggard
1986
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
—
Man to Man
1992
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021
Chroma
2024
Durmiente
2022
Death in Her Hands
—
Flat 19
2025
A Call to Arms
1989
Timeslip
2025
One Water
2013
Obertura
2024
Glitterbug
1994
Impulse: Playing with Reality
2024
Absent Presence
2005
A Flower of Forgetfulness
2026
Personal History
2023
Planet Tilda
2011
Tilda in de Menil Land
2014
Instant Coffee
2025
Goliath: Playing with Reality
2021