Tilda Swinton
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 Swinton at the 2007 Edinburgh International Film Festival |
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| Born | Katherine Matilda Swinton November 5, 1960 London, England |
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| Occupation | Actress | ||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1986 - present | ||||||||||||||
| Domestic partner(s) | John Byrne Sandro Kopp (2004-) |
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Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton (born November 5, 1960) is an English actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has won the Academy Award, the BAFTA, the BAFTA Scotland, and the Coppa Volpi awards.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Swinton was born in London. Her mother, Judith Balfour (née Killen), was Australian, and her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton of Kimmerghame, Berwickshire, KCVO, is Scottish.[1][2][3][4] The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the ninth century.[4] Swinton attended West Heath Girls' School (the same class as Diana, Princess of Wales), and also Fettes College for a brief period. In 1983, she graduated from New Hall at Cambridge University with a degree in Social and Political Sciences. She has two Honorary Doctorates: one from Napier University in Edinburgh, received in August 2006 and one from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow, received July 2006. She was a contributing editor to the literary magazine Zembla.
[edit] Career
Swinton worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and the Royal Shakespeare Company before embarking on a career in film in the mid-1980s. Her early film work included several film roles for director Derek Jarman, notably War Requiem (1989) playing a nurse opposite Sir Laurence Olivier as an old soldier. In 1991, Swinton won the Volpi Cup Best Actress award for her role in the postmodern film Edward II. Swinton also played the title role in Orlando, Sally Potter's film version of the novel by Virginia Woolf.
Swinton gained great artistic acclaim for a period in 1995 when she developed a performance/installation art piece in which as a live exhibit in the Serpentine Gallery, London, she was on display to the public for a week, asleep or apparently so, in a glass case, as a piece of performance art. The piece is often erroneously credited to Cornelia Parker, whom Swinton invited to collaborate for the installation in London. The following year, the performance, entitled The Maybe, was repeated at the Museo Barracco in Rome. She also appeared in the music video for Orbital's "The Box".
Recent years have seen Swinton move towards more mainstream projects, including the leading role in the well-reviewed American film The Deep End (2001), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She appeared as the scheming archangel Gabriel in Constantine with Keanu Reeves, as a supporting character in films such as Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise, and The Beach, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio. Swinton has also appeared in the British films The Statement (2003) and Young Adam (2003), and sat on the jury of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2005, Swinton's performance as the sinister, seductive villainess, the White Witch Jadis, in the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe garnered critical praise as did her portrayal of Audrey Cobb in the Mike Mills film adaptation of the novel Thumbsucker.
Swinton's performance as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton also drew favorable reviews, for which she earned her second Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. After winning a BAFTA award in the same category at the 61st British Academy Film Awards, Swinton won an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role at the 80th Academy Awards, the film's sole win.[5][6][7]
[edit] Personal life
Swinton lives in Nairn, in the Highland area of Scotland, with Scottish painter John Byrne, the father of her twins, Xavier and Honor. She has recently been in the news for her polyamorous relationship with Sandro Kopp, a German/New Zealand painter,[8] while continuing her live-in relationship with Byrne. She has been with Kopp since 2004 and the relationship has Byrne's blessing.[9]
In August 2006 she opened the new Screen Academy Scotland production centre in Edinburgh.[10]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1986 | Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung | Sally | |
| Zastrozzi: A Romance | Julia | Mini TV series | |
| Caravaggio | Lena | ||
| 1987 | Aria | Young Girl (segment "Depuis le jour") | |
| Friendship's Death | Friendship | ||
| 1988 | The Last of England | ||
| Das Andere Ende der Welt | |||
| Degrees of Blindness | |||
| L' Ispirazione | |||
| 1989 | Play Me Something | Hairdresser | TV |
| War Requiem | Nurse | ||
| 1990 | "Your Cheatin' Heart" | Cissie Crouch | TV series |
| The Garden | Madonna | ||
| 1991 | Edward II | Isabella | |
| The Party: Nature Morte | Queenie | ||
| 1992 | "Shakespeare: The Animated Tales" | Ophelia | Mini TV series; voice |
| Orlando | Orlando | ||
| Man to Man | Ella/Max Gericke | ||
| 1993 | Blue | Voice | |
| Das Offene Universum | Carla | TV | |
| Wittgenstein | Lady Ottoline Morrell | ||
| 1994 | Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies | ||
| Visions of Heaven and Hell | Narrator | TV | |
| 1996 | Female Perversions | Eve Stephens | |
| 1997 | Conceiving Ada | Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace | |
| 1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Muriel Belcher | |
| The Protagonists | |||
| 1999 | The War Zone | Mum | |
| 2000 | Possible Worlds | Joyce | |
| The Beach | Sal | ||
| 2001 | Vanilla Sky | Rebecca Dearborn | |
| The Deep End | Margaret Hall | Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama | |
| 2002 | Adaptation | Valerie Thomas | |
| Teknolust | Rosetta/Ruby/Marinne/Olive | ||
| 2003 | The Statement | Annemarie Livi | |
| Young Adam | Ella Gault | ||
| 2005 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Jadis, the White Witch | |
| Broken Flowers | Penny | ||
| Constantine | Angel Gabriel | ||
| Thumbsucker | Audrey Cobb | ||
| 2006 | Stephanie Daley | Lydie Crane | |
| Galapagos | Narrator | BBC Documentary | |
| 2007 | Sleepwalkers | Violinist working as a Copy Clerk | |
| Strange Culture | Hope Kurtz | ||
| The Man from London | Camélia | ||
| Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture |
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| 2008 | Julia | Julia | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | The White Witch | Cameo | |
| Burn After Reading | Katie Cox | awaiting release | |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Elizabeth Abbott | post-production | |
| Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll | Lewis Carroll's dream wife | pre-production | |
| Come Like Shadows | Lady Macbeth | pre-production | |
| 2009 | The Limits of Control | TBA | filming |
[edit] References
- ^ Dewar, Peter Beauclerk, Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain - The Kingdom in Scotland, 19th edition, vol.1, Wilmington, Delaware, 2001, p.1317. ISBN 0-9711966-0-5
- ^ Tilda Swinton Biography
- ^ http://www.swintonfamilysociety.org/web%20charts%20Jan%202005/Swint%20Ch.01-3/SWINTON_Ch02B_Sh2.pdf
- ^ a b Tilda Swinton, one of our most unique actors, talks to Gaby Wood | Magazine | The Observer
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "Michael Clayton", Chicago Sun-Times, 2007-10-05. Retrieved on 2007-12-15.
- ^ "HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION 2008 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2007", Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 2007-12-13. Retrieved on 2007-12-15.
- ^ BAFTA (2008-02-10). "Winners Announced". Press release. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
- ^ http://www.sandrokopp.com/17.html
- ^ Boshhoff, Alison (2008-02-14). Tilda Swinton: Her toyboy, elderly lover and an intriguing ménage a trois. dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
- ^ Sir Sean Connery Named Patron of Screen Academy Scotland (2006-11-02). Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
[edit] External links
- Tilda Swinton at the Internet Movie Database
- Tilda Swinton Fansite and postingboards
- BFI: Tilda Swinton
- Tilda Swinton: A Life in Pictures, BAFTA webcast, 27 November 2007
- From The Guardian
- From BBC (2004)
- From NarniaWeb (2005)
- From Dark Horizons (2005)
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls |
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role 2007 for Michael Clayton |
Succeeded by TBD |
| Preceded by Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls |
BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress 2008 for Michael Clayton |
Succeeded by TBD |
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| NAME | Swinton, Tilda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swinton, Katherine Matilda |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London, England |
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