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Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton is a Scottish actress. Known for her performances on both stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Volpi Cup, in addition to nominations for five Actor Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
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Born 5 November 1960 · Q200534
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“That was very much my experience. That was the atmosphere of my late 20s and early 30s. What was so tragic was the breakdown of the blood family support. Lots of people couldn’t go home so they stayed with us and we looked after everyone as best we could.”
“You’ve got mathematics, geometry, physics of buoyancy, the chemistry of epoxy resins, the art and aesthetic of colour and shape, the process of collaboration and the physical, outdoor experience of it all.”
“s funny that she plays all these emotionally disturbed or battered women, because she”
The Guardian: Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman return to stage for Royal Court’s 70th anniversary
The Guardian: ‘It’s like fencing with a close friend. Terrifying in a lovely way’: Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton on taking a gamble with their new drama
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The Guardian: The End review – post-apocalyptic musical with Tilda Swinton is catastrophically self-indulgent
The Guardian: The End review – Tilda Swinton end-of-the-world singalong drama commands attention
The Guardian: ‘Musicals can be quite sinister’: Tilda Swinton and Joshua Oppenheimer on bonkers bunker singalong The End
The Guardian: Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival
Calling on the UK government to end its complicity in the violence, and has routinely joined A-list actors, filmmakers and industry figures pledging to boycott Israeli film institutes complicit in genocide
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Together with Olivier Saillard, she co-created a spectacle Embodying Passolini, in which she used costumes from Pier Paolo Pasolini films
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Swinton had a cameo in the Amazon Prime series The Boys, in which she voiced Ambrosius, the Deep's octopus lover
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Swinton starred opposite Julianne Moore in Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language drama ‘’The Room Next Door’’
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Starred in George Miller's fantasy film Three Thousand Years of Longing and voiced Wood Sprite and Death in the animated film Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
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Was presented with the FIAF Award "for her work on the preservation and promotion of archive film, film history and women's role in it"
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In a 2021 interview with Vogue, Swinton mentioned that she identifies herself as queer.
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Swinton starred as newspaper writer J
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The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century
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Was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship for her "daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and filmmaker and recognizes her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and ph
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Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2018).
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Swinton stated her support for Scottish independence
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In 2018, Swinton stated her support for Scottish independence.
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Awarded Saturn Award for Best Actress for Doctor Strange (2017).
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Played Dianne, Amy Schumer's character's editor on S'Nuff Magazine, in Trainwreck
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Starred in Luca Guadagnino's thriller A Bigger Splash, alongside Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Ralph Fiennes
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Played secondary antagonist Minister Mason in Bong Joon Ho's post-apocalyptic action thriller film Snowpiercer
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The British Film Institute Fellowship and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2020, and the Honorary Golden Bear in 2025
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Was named as one of the 50 best-dressed over 50 by The Guardian
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Swinton appeared in Doug Aitken's SONG 1, an outdoor video installation created for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D
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Was cast in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Actress for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011).
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“puddles [excess fabric] on the top of your shoes, that’s a horror”
And Mark Cousins embarked on a project where they mounted a 33
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Michael Clayton (2008).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton (2008).
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Swinton played ruthless corporate attorney Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton
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Awarded Saturn Award for Best Actress for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2006).
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Swinton was given an honorary degree by the Edinburgh Napier University for her services to performing arts
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Swinton performed as the White Witch Jadis, in the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and as Audrey Cobb in the Mike Mills film adaptation of the novel Thumbsucker
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“A practical observation that I’ve made over the years with ancient beloved people in my life—real spiritual youth is gained latterly.”
Swinton gave birth to twins, Honor and Xavier Swinton Byrne, with John Byrne, a Scottish artist and playwright
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And as of 2023 she lives in Nairn, overlooking the Moray Firth in the Highland region of Scotland, with her children and partner Sandro Kopp, a German painter, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2004
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Appeared in the music video for Orbital's "The Box"
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At the Museo Barracco in Rome and in 2013 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
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With producer Joanna Scanlan, Swinton developed a performance/installation live art piece in the Serpentine Gallery, London, where she was on display to the public for a week, asleep or apparently so, in a glass case, as
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Was a member of the jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Edward II (1992).
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Swinton was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival
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Swinton starred along Bill Paterson in Peter Wollen's Friendship's Death, she played a female extraterrestrial robot on a peace mission to Earth
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And Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge in 1987
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Swinton graduated from New Hall at the University of Cambridge with a degree in social and political sciences
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Born 1960-11-05.
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