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.
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Movies (179)
Heart of Light: Eleven Songs for Fiji
2026
Queer Edward II
2026 · Self (archive footage), Executive Producer
WOLF
2026 · Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
A Flower of Forgetfulness
2026
Broken English
2026 · The Overseer
The Coen Brothers Story
2025 · Self
The Tree
2025
Flat 19
2025
Maldita suerte
2025 · Cynthia Blithe
Camaraderie
2025
Phantoms
2025
Timeslip
2025
Karl
2025 · Self
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
2025 · Self (archive)
Instant Coffee
2025 · Self
The End
2024 · Mother, Producer
Impulse: Playing with Reality
2024 · Narrator
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024 · Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice)
The Room Next Door
2024 · Martha / Michelle
January Stories
2024
Obertura
2024 · The Gardenerette
Chroma
2024
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
2024 · Self, Director
Transparent
2024
Problemista
2024 · Elizabeth
El asesino
2023 · The Expert
Personal History
2023
Pasolini On Pasolini
2023 · Narrator
All Kinds of Love
2023 · Self
Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Cannes Uncut
2023 · Self
Asteroid City
2023 · Dr. Hickenlooper
Pinocho de Guillermo del Toro: Cine tallado a mano
2022 · Self
La hija Eterna
2022 · Julie / Rosalind
Durmiente
2022
Pinocho de Guillermo del Toro
2022 · Wood Sprite / Death (voice)
There Was a Tower: A Portrait of Mihály Víg
2022 · Executive Producer
Érase una vez un genio
2022 · Alithea
Sleep Song
2022
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021 · Self
Goliath: Playing with Reality
2021 · Narrator (voice)
La Crónica Francesa
2021 · J.K.L. Berensen
The Souvenir: Part II
2021 · Rosalind
Memoria
2021 · Jessica Holland, Executive Producer
Embodying Pasolini
2021 · Multiple, Action Director
The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
2020 · Self
The Human Voice
2020 · Woman
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Last and First Men
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Diamantes en bruto
2019 · Anne - Adley's Auction Manager (voice)
La historia de David Copperfield
2019 · Betsey Trotwood
El souvenir
2019 · Rosalind
Los muertos no mueren
2019 · Zelda Winston
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · The Ancient One
Suspiria: El maligno
2018 · Madame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos
Isla de perros
2018 · Oracle (voice)
Llámame por tu nombre
2017 · Thanks
Letters from Generation Rx
2017 · Narrator (voice)
Okja
2017 · Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando, Co-Producer
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
2017 · Self, Director, Writer
Máquina de Guerra
2017 · German Politician
Letters from Baghdad
2017 · Gertrude Bell (voice), Executive Producer
async - first light
2017
Tania Libre
2017 · Narrator (voice)
Paterson
2016 · Thanks
Doctor Strange: Hechicero supremo
2016 · The Ancient One
Phantom of the Universe
2016 · Narrator
¡Salve, César!
2016 · Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker
A Bigger Splash
2015 · Marianne Lane
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
2015 · Self / Social Services
Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton.
2015 · Self
Esta Chica es un Desastre
2015 · Dianna
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015 · Self
Mobilisierung der Träume
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Tilda in de Menil Land
2014
The Gospel According to St Derek
2014 · Self
Antarctica: On the Edge
2014 · Narrator (voice)
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2014 · Self
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014 · Self
El Gran Hotel Budapest
2014 · Madame D.
Hot Dollar
2014
Sólo los amantes sobreviven
2013 · Eve
The Zero Theorem
2013 · Dr. Shrink-Rom
Snowpiercer
2013 · Mason
Death for a Unicorn
2013 · Narrator (voice)
When Björk Met Attenborough
2013 · Narrator (voice)
David Bowie: Five Years
2013 · Self (archive footage)
One Water
2013
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
2013
Love Flesh
2013 · Self
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
2013 · Narrator (voice)
Radioman
2012 · Self
Ashes
2012 · Self
Moonrise Kingdom: Amor Infantil
2012 · Social Services
Song 1
2012 · Self
Planet Tilda
2011
Cinema Is Everywhere
2011 · Self
Tenemos que hablar de Kevin
2011 · Eva Khatchadourian, Executive Producer
Las Crónicas de Narnia 3: La Travesía del Viajero del Alba
2010 · White Witch
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010 · Self
Orlando In Uzbekistan
2010 · Self
Climate of Change
2010 · Narrator (voice)
I Am Love
2010 · Emma Recchi, Producer
The Invisible Frame
2009 · The Cyclist
The Limits of Control
2009 · Blonde
Moments on the Set of I Am Love
2009 · Self
El curioso caso de Benjamin Button
2008 · Elizabeth Abbott
Finding the Burn
2008 · Self / Katie Cox (archive footage)
DC Insiders Run Amuck
2008 · Self
The Man from London
2008 · Camélia
Quémese después de leerse
2008 · Katie Cox
Las crónicas de Narnia: El príncipe Caspian
2008 · White Witch
Julia
2008 · Julia
Derek
2008 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Executive Producer
The New Ten Commandments
2008 · Self, Director
Cannes: All Access
2007 · Self (archive footage)
Michael Clayton
2007 · Karen Crowder
Stephanie Daley
2007 · Lydie Crane, Executive Producer
Faceless
2007 · Narrator (voice)
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007 · Self
Strange Culture
2007 · Hope Kurtz
Sleepwalkers
2007 · Violinist Working As a Copy Clerk
Deep Water
2006 · Narrator (voice)
Las crónicas de Narnia: El león, la bruja y el ropero
2005 · White Witch
The Somme
2005 · Narrator (voice)
Thumbsucker
2005 · Audrey Cobb, Co-Executive Producer
Flores rotas
2005 · Penny
Absent Presence
2005
Constantine
2005 · Gabriel
The Statement
2003 · Annemarie Livi
Young Adam
2003 · Ella Gault
El ladrón de orquídeas
2002 · Valerie Thomas
Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
2002 · Self
Teknolust
2002 · Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive
Vanilla Sky
2001 · Rebecca Dearborn
The Deep End
2001 · Margaret Hall
The Dilapidated Dwelling
2000 · Narrator (voice)
Possible Worlds
2000 · Joyce
La Playa
2000 · Sal
The Protagonists
1999 · Actress
The War Zone
1999 · Mum
Conceiving Ada
1999 · Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 · Muriel Belcher
Female Perversions
1996 · Evelyn Stephens
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1994
Glitterbug
1994 · Self
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994 · Narrator (voice)
Blue
1993 · (voice)
Wittgenstein
1993 · Lady Ottoline Morrell
Orlando
1992 · Orlando
Hamlet
1992 · Ophelia
Man to Man
1992 · Ella / Max Gerike
Edward II
1991 · Isabella
The Party: Nature Morte
1991 · Queenie
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
1991 · Self
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990
The Garden
1990 · Madonna/Voice Overs
The Open Universe
1990 · Carla
Play Me Something
1989 · Hairdresser
War Requiem
1989 · The Nurse
Volcano Saga
1989 · Gudrun
A Call to Arms
1989
Cycling the Frame
1988 · The Cyclist
Degrees of Blindness
1988
L'ispirazione
1988
The Last of England
1987 · The Maid
Friendship's Death
1987 · Friendship
Aria
1987 · Young Girl
Depuis le Jour
1987
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987 · Sally
Caravaggio
1986 · Lena
Caprice
1986 · Lucky
The Sluggard
1986 · The Sluggard
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
Hitler's Favourite Royal
· Narrator (voice)
Death in Her Hands
· Vesta Gul
Jenjira's Magnificent Dream
Paradise
· Director
We Will Wake
· Director
TV shows (23)
Moon: Nature's Secret Force
2025 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Fantasmas
2024 · Water (voice)
What If...?
2021 · The Ancient One (voice)
Leyendas de Marvel Studios
2021 · The Ancient One (archive footage) (uncredited)
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
2020 · Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
The Boys
2019 · Ambrosius (voice)
Lo que hacemos en las sombras
2019 · Tilda
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
Rick and Morty
2013 · The Collective (voice)
Women, War & Peace
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Getting On
2009 · Elke
Galapagos
2006 · Self - Presenter
Made in Hollywood
2005 · Self
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Ophelia (voice)
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990 · Cissie Crouch
ScreenPlay
1986 · Ella / Max Gerike
Zastrozzi: A Romance
1986 · Julia
Screen Two
1985 · Isabella
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee