
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 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.
Movie | Hamlet | Ophelia | 2026 |
Movie | Death in Her Hands | Vesta Gul | 2026 |
Movie | The Ballad of a Small Player | Unknown | 2026 |
Movie | Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project | Unknown | 2026 |
Movie | Instant Coffee | Self | 2025-01-24 |
Movie | Transparent | Unknown | 2024-06-12 |
Movie | Witches | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2024-06-09 |
Series | Fantasmas | Water (voice) | 2024-06-07 |
Movie | Problemista | Elizabeth | 2024-03-01 |
Movie | The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze | Self | 2024-06-13 |
Movie | The Room Next Door | Martha / Michelle | 2024-10-07 |
Movie | Impulse: Playing with reality | Narrator | 2024-11-15 |
Movie | The End | Mother | 2024-12-06 |
Movie | Chroma | Unknown | 2024-07-21 |
Movie | A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice) | 2024-10-18 |
Movie | January Stories (version Harinezumi) | Unknown | 2024-10-02 |
Movie | Cannes Uncut | Self | 2023-06-12 |
Movie | Some Thoughts On The Common Toad | Narrator (voice) | 2023-06-17 |
Movie | Asteroid City | Dr. Hickenlooper | 2023-06-08 |
Movie | All Kinds of Love | Self | 2023-06-20 |
Movie | The Killer | The Expert | 2023-10-25 |
Movie | Sleep Song | Unknown | 2022-01-01 |
Movie | Three Thousand Years of Longing | Alithea | 2022-08-24 |
Movie | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Wood Sprite / Death (voice) | 2022-11-09 |
Movie | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema | Self | 2022-12-09 |
Movie | The Eternal Daughter | Julie / Rosalind | 2022-12-02 |
Movie | Durmiente | Unknown | 2022-11-10 |
Series | What If...? | The Ancient One (voice) | 2021-08-11 |
Series | Marvel Studios Legends | The Ancient One (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-01-08 |
Movie | Memoria | Jessica Holland | 2021-09-30 |
Movie | The French Dispatch | J.K.L. Berensen | 2021-10-21 |
Movie | The Souvenir: Part II | Rosalind | 2021-10-11 |
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 | async - first light | Unknown | 2017-04-01 |
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 | War Machine | German Politician | 2017-05-26 |
Movie | Letters from Generation Rx | Narrator (voice) | 2017-07-18 |
Movie | Okja | Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando | 2017-06-28 |
Movie | The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger | Self | 2017-06-23 |
Movie | Hail, Caesar! | Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker | 2016-02-05 |
Movie | Doctor Strange | The Ancient One | 2016-10-25 |
Movie | Phantom of the Universe | Narrator | 2016-10-18 |
Movie | B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 | Self | 2015-02-05 |
Movie | Trainwreck | Dianna | 2015-07-17 |
Movie | Dreams Rewired | Narrator (voice) | 2015-02-01 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
Movie | A Bigger Splash | Marianne Lane | 2015-11-26 |
Movie | Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom' | Self / Social Services | 2015-09-22 |
Movie | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Madame D. | 2014-02-26 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Movie | Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch | Self | 2014-04-22 |
Movie | Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen | Self | 2014-04-02 |
Series | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014-12-21 |
Movie | The Gospel According to St Derek | Self | 2014-10-20 |
Movie | Antarctica: On the Edge | Narrator (voice) | 2014-10-19 |
Movie | The Stars (Are Out Tonight) | Unknown | 2013-02-25 |
Movie | One Water | Unknown | 2013-04-05 |
Movie | Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes | Narrator (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
Movie | David Bowie: Five Years | Self (archive footage) | 2013-05-25 |
Movie | Love Flesh | Self | 2013-02-06 |
Movie | Snowpiercer | Mason | 2013-08-01 |
Movie | When Björk Met Attenborough | Narrator (voice) | 2013-07-26 |
Movie | Only Lovers Left Alive | Eve | 2013-12-12 |
Movie | The Zero Theorem | Dr. Shrink-Rom | 2013-09-20 |
Movie | Death for a Unicorn | Narrator (voice) | 2013-08-01 |
Movie | Song 1 | Self | 2012-03-22 |
Movie | Moonrise Kingdom | Social Services | 2012-05-16 |
Movie | Radioman | Self | 2012-12-07 |
Movie | Ashes | Self | 2012-05-19 |
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 | Derek | Narrator (voice) | 2008-02-19 |
Movie | The New Ten Commandments | Self | 2008-01-02 |
Movie | Julia | Julia | 2008-03-12 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | White Witch | 2008-05-15 |
Movie | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Elizabeth Abbott | 2008-12-25 |
Movie | Burn After Reading | Katie Cox | 2008-09-05 |
Movie | Strange Culture | Hope Kurtz | 2007-02-09 |
Movie | Sleepwalkers | Violinist working as a Copy Clerk | 2007-01-16 |
Movie | Faceless | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-20 |
Movie | Hitler's Favourite Royal | Narrator | 2007-01-01 |
Movie | Here’s Looking at You, Boy | Self | 2007-02-16 |
Movie | Cannes: All Access | Self | 2007-10-27 |
Movie | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | 2007-09-28 |
Movie | The Man from London | Camélia | 2007-05-23 |
Movie | Stephanie Daley | Lydie Crane | 2007-04-20 |
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 |
Series | Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005-09-30 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | White Witch | 2005-12-07 |
Movie | The Somme | Narrator (voice) | 2005-11-14 |
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 | The Dilapidated Dwelling | Narrator (voice) | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | Possible Worlds | Joyce | 2000-09-04 |
Movie | Conceiving Ada | Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace | 1999-02-19 |
Movie | The Protagonists | Actress | 1999-09-10 |
Movie | The War Zone | Mum | 1999-06-11 |
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 |
Movie | Orbital: The Box | Traveller | 1996-04-15 |
Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
Movie | Glitterbug | Self | 1994-03-05 |
Movie | Visions of Heaven and Hell | Narrator (voice) | 1994-01-31 |
Movie | Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies | Unknown | 1994-05-01 |
Movie | Death of a World Star | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1994-06-01 |
Movie | Wittgenstein | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 1993-03-26 |
Movie | Blue | (voice) | 1993-08-19 |
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 | Hamlet | Ophelia | 1992-12-07 |
Movie | Derek Jarman: A Portrait | Self | 1991-01-25 |
Movie | The Party: Nature Morte | Queenie | 1991-09-06 |
Movie | Edward II | Isabella | 1991-09-11 |
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 | Depuis le Jour | Unknown | 1987-05-27 |
Movie | Aria | Young Girl | 1987-05-27 |
Movie | Egomania: Island Without Hope | Sally | 1987-05-20 |
Movie | Friendship's Death | Friendship | 1987-08-17 |
Movie | The Last of England | The Maid | 1987-08-23 |
Series | Zastrozzi: A Romance | Julia | 1986-04-13 |
Movie | The Sluggard | The Sluggard | 1986-01-01 |
Movie | Caprice | Lucky | 1986-06-15 |
Movie | Caravaggio | Lena | 1986-08-29 |
Series | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | 1944-01-20 |
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