Tilda Swinton (born Katherine Matilda Swinton; 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 filmmaker 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.
Movie | Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | The Ballad of a Small Player | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze | Self | 2024-06-13 |
Movie | Transparent | Unknown | 2024-06-12 |
Movie | Problemista | Elizabeth | 2024-03-01 |
Movie | Orbital: Glastonbury 2024 | Self | 2024-06-29 |
Series | Fantasmas | Water | 2024-06-07 |
Movie | Witches | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2024-06-09 |
Movie | Chroma | Unknown | 2024-07-21 |
Movie | A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice) | 2024-10-18 |
Movie | The Room Next Door | Martha / Michelle | 2024-10-07 |
Movie | January Stories (version Harinezumi) | Unknown | 2024-10-02 |
Movie | The End | Mother | 2024-12-06 |
Movie | Cannes Uncut | Self | 2023-06-12 |
Movie | Asteroid City | Dr. Hickenlooper | 2023-06-08 |
Movie | All Kinds of Love | Self | 2023-06-20 |
Movie | Some Thoughts On The Common Toad | Narrator (voice) | 2023-06-17 |
Movie | The Killer | The Expert | 2023-10-25 |
Movie | Three Thousand Years of Longing | Alithea | 2022-08-24 |
Movie | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Wood Sprite / Death (voice) | 2022-11-09 |
Movie | Sleep Song | Unknown | 2022-01-01 |
Movie | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema | Self | 2022-12-09 |
Movie | Durmiente | Unknown | 2022-11-10 |
Movie | The Eternal Daughter | Julie / Rosalind | 2022-12-02 |
Movie | Memoria | Jessica Holland | 2021-09-30 |
Series | Marvel Studios Legends | The Ancient One (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-01-08 |
Movie | The Souvenir: Part II | Rosalind | 2021-10-11 |
Series | What If...? | The Ancient One (voice) | 2021-08-11 |
Movie | The French Dispatch | J.K.L. Berensen | 2021-10-21 |
Movie | The Storms of Jeremy Thomas | Self | 2021-12-10 |
Movie | Goliath: Playing with Reality | Narrator (voice) | 2021-11-01 |
Movie | Last and First Men | Narrator (voice) | 2020-02-25 |
Movie | Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence | Self (archive footage) | 2020-08-20 |
Movie | The Human Voice | Woman | 2020-09-03 |
Movie | The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode | Self | 2020-11-06 |
Movie | The Dead Don't Die | Zelda Winston | 2019-05-15 |
Movie | The Souvenir | Rosalind | 2019-05-17 |
Series | What We Do in the Shadows | Tilda | 2019-03-27 |
Movie | Avengers: Endgame | The Ancient One | 2019-04-24 |
Series | The Boys | Ambrosius (voice) | 2019-07-25 |
Movie | Uncut Gems | Anne - Adley's Auction Manager (voice) | 2019-08-30 |
Movie | The Personal History of David Copperfield | Betsey Trotwood | 2019-11-07 |
Movie | Isle of Dogs | Oracle (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
Series | Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema | Narrator (voice) | 2018-09-01 |
Movie | Suspiria | Madame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos | 2018-10-26 |
Movie | Doctor Strange: Strange Company | Herself | 2017-02-28 |
Movie | Tania Libre | Narrator (voice) | 2017-02-14 |
Movie | Letters from Baghdad | Gertrude Bell (voice) | 2017-04-21 |
Movie | async - first light | Unknown | 2017-04-01 |
Movie | War Machine | German Politician | 2017-05-26 |
Movie | The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger | Self | 2017-06-23 |
Movie | Okja | Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando | 2017-06-28 |
Movie | Letters from Generation Rx | Narrator (voice) | 2017-07-18 |
Movie | Hail, Caesar! | Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker | 2016-02-05 |
Movie | Doctor Strange | The Ancient One | 2016-10-25 |
Movie | Dreams Rewired | Narrator (voice) | 2015-02-01 |
Movie | B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 | Self | 2015-02-05 |
Movie | A Bigger Splash | Marianne Lane | 2015-11-26 |
Movie | Trainwreck | Dianna | 2015-07-17 |
Movie | Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom' | Self / Social Services | 2015-09-22 |
Movie | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Madame D. | 2014-02-26 |
Movie | Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen | Self | 2014-04-02 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Series | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014-12-21 |
Movie | Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch | Self | 2014-04-22 |
Movie | The Gospel According to St Derek | Self | 2014-10-20 |
Movie | Antarctica: On the Edge | Narrator (voice) | 2014-10-19 |
Movie | One Water | Unknown | 2013-04-05 |
Movie | The Stars (Are Out Tonight) | Unknown | 2013-02-25 |
Movie | Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes | Narrator (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
Movie | Love Flesh | Self | 2013-02-06 |
Movie | David Bowie: Five Years | Self (archive footage) | 2013-05-25 |
Movie | When Björk Met Attenborough | Narrator (voice) | 2013-07-26 |
Movie | The Zero Theorem | Dr. Shrink-Rom | 2013-09-20 |
Movie | Only Lovers Left Alive | Eve | 2013-12-12 |
Movie | Snowpiercer | Minister Mason | 2013-08-01 |
Movie | Death for a Unicorn | Narrator (voice) | 2013-08-01 |
Movie | Moonrise Kingdom | Social Services | 2012-05-16 |
Movie | Song 1 | Self | 2012-03-22 |
Movie | Ashes | Self | 2012-05-19 |
Movie | Radioman | Self | 2012-12-07 |
Movie | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian | 2011-09-28 |
Movie | Cinema Is Everywhere | Self | 2011-10-22 |
Series | Women, War & Peace | Narrator (voice) | 2011-10-11 |
Movie | I Am Love | Emma Recchi | 2010-03-19 |
Movie | Climate of Change | Narrator (voice) | 2010-05-12 |
Movie | Behind Jim Jarmusch | Self | 2010-09-01 |
Movie | 14 Actors Acting | Self | 2010-12-08 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | White Witch | 2010-12-02 |
Movie | The Limits of Control | Blonde | 2009-05-01 |
Movie | Moments on the Set of I Am Love | Self | 2009-01-01 |
Series | Getting On | Elke | 2009-07-08 |
Movie | The Invisible Frame | The Cyclist | 2009-11-12 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | White Witch | 2008-05-15 |
Movie | Derek | Narrator (voice) | 2008-02-19 |
Movie | Julia | Julia | 2008-03-12 |
Movie | Burn After Reading | Katie Cox | 2008-09-05 |
Movie | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Elizabeth Abbott | 2008-12-25 |
Movie | Faceless | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-20 |
Movie | Here’s Looking at You, Boy | Self | 2007-02-16 |
Movie | Sleepwalkers | Violinist working as a Copy Clerk | 2007-01-16 |
Movie | Strange Culture | Hope Kurtz | 2007-02-09 |
Movie | Stephanie Daley | Lydie Crane | 2007-04-20 |
Movie | The Man from London | Camélia | 2007-05-23 |
Movie | Cannes: All Access | Self | 2007-10-27 |
Movie | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | 2007-09-28 |
Movie | Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes | Self | 2006-01-24 |
Movie | Galápagos | Narrator | 2006-09-26 |
Series | Galapagos | Self - Presenter | 2006-09-29 |
Movie | Deep Water | Narrator (voice) | 2006-12-15 |
Movie | Broken Flowers | Penny | 2005-07-31 |
Movie | Constantine | Gabriel | 2005-02-08 |
Movie | Thumbsucker | Audrey Cobb | 2005-09-16 |
Movie | The Somme | Narrator (voice) | 2005-11-14 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | White Witch | 2005-12-07 |
Series | Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005-09-30 |
Movie | Young Adam | Ella Gault | 2003-09-26 |
Movie | The Statement | Annemarie Livi | 2003-12-12 |
Movie | Teknolust | Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive | 2002-01-10 |
Movie | Adaptation. | Valerie Thomas | 2002-12-06 |
Movie | Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory | Self | 2002-10-10 |
Movie | The Deep End | Margaret Hall | 2001-01-21 |
Movie | Vanilla Sky | Rebecca Dearborn | 2001-12-14 |
Movie | The Beach | Sal | 2000-02-03 |
Movie | Possible Worlds | Joyce | 2000-09-04 |
Movie | The Dilapidated Dwelling | Narrator (voice) | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | Conceiving Ada | Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace | 1999-02-19 |
Movie | The War Zone | Mum | 1999-06-11 |
Movie | The Protagonists | Actress | 1999-09-10 |
Movie | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Muriel Belcher | 1998-09-16 |
Movie | Female Perversions | Evelyn Stephens | 1997-04-25 |
Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
Movie | Visions of Heaven and Hell | Narrator (voice) | 1994-01-31 |
Movie | Glitterbug | Self | 1994-03-05 |
Movie | Death of a World Star | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1994-06-01 |
Movie | Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies | Unknown | 1994-05-01 |
Movie | Blue | (voice) | 1993-08-19 |
Movie | Wittgenstein | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 1993-03-26 |
Movie | The Open Universe | Carla | 1993-10-16 |
Movie | Man to Man | Ella / Max Gerike | 1992-08-26 |
Series | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Ophelia (voice) | 1992-11-09 |
Movie | Orlando | Orlando | 1992-12-11 |
Movie | Derek Jarman: A Portrait | Self | 1991-01-25 |
Movie | Edward II | Isabella | 1991-10-18 |
Movie | The Party: Nature Morte | Queenie | 1991-09-06 |
Movie | Your Cheatin' Heart | Unknown | 1990-10-11 |
Movie | The Garden | Madonna/Voice Overs | 1990-09-06 |
Series | Your Cheatin' Heart | Cissie Crouch | 1990-10-11 |
Movie | A Call to Arms | Unknown | 1989-01-01 |
Movie | Volcano Saga | Gudrun | 1989-01-01 |
Movie | War Requiem | The Nurse | 1989-01-06 |
Movie | Play Me Something | Hairdresser | 1989-02-18 |
Movie | Degrees of Blindness | Unknown | 1988-01-01 |
Movie | Cycling the Frame | The Cyclist | 1988-08-30 |
Movie | Egomania: Island Without Hope | Sally | 1987-05-20 |
Movie | Friendship's Death | Friendship | 1987-08-17 |
Movie | Depuis le Jour | Unknown | 1987-05-27 |
Movie | The Last of England | The Maid | 1987-08-23 |
Movie | Aria | Young Girl | 1987-09-15 |
Movie | The Sluggard | The Sluggard | 1986-01-01 |
Movie | Caprice | Lucky | 1986-01-01 |
Movie | Caravaggio | Lena | 1986-08-29 |
Series | Zastrozzi: A Romance | Julia | 1986-04-13 |
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