PHOTO GALLERY


Date of Birth : Nov 5th 1960

Tilda Swinton won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for her role as a jittery and ambitious corporate attorney in the 2007 film Michael Clayton. Redheaded and sinewy, even gaunt, Swinton had already made her reputation with two decades’ worth of dynamic and eccentric performances in offbeat films, gaining special notice in the androgynous title role of Orlando (1992, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf). The daugher of a Scottish nobleman, Swinton earned a degree in English literature from Cambridge University (1983) and spent a year with the Royal Shakespeare Company before turning to film acting. Her other films include Friendship’s Death (1987), Female Perversions (1996), Love Is the Devil (1998), Vanilla Sky (2001, with Tom Cruise) and Thumbsucker (2005). She was one of three actors nominated for Oscars in Michael Clayton, along with George Clooney and Tom Wilkinson.

Swinton has twin children (Honor and Xavier, born 1997) with her longtime companion, the painter and writer John Byrne… She was a classmate of Princess Diana at West Heath Girls’ School in England… According to a 2003 story in The Guardian, “Her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton — Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, former head of the Queen’s Household Division, Order of the British Empire and all that — can trace his lineage back 35 generations, to the 9th century.”


CAREER

Asteroid City ( 2023 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

The Human Voice ( 2020 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Snowpiercer ( 2020 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

The Souvenir ( 2019 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Suspiria ( 2018 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Isle of Dogs ( 2018 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Okja ( 2017 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Doctor Strange ( 2016 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Hail, Caesar! ( 2016 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

A Bigger Splash ( 2016 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Trainwreck ( 2015 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

The Zero Theorem ( 2014 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Moonrise Kingdom ( 2012 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

I Am Love ( 2010 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Julia ( 2008 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Michael Clayton ( 2007 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Thumbsucker ( 2005 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Broken Flowers ( 2005 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Constantine ( 2005 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Young Adam ( 2003 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Adaptation ( 2003 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Vanilla Sky ( 2002 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

The Deep End ( 2001 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

The Beach ( 2000 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

The War Zone ( 1999 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Orlando ( 1993 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

Edward II ( 1991 )

star rating star rating star rating star rating star rating

WEB LINKS

SUBMIT A LINKS

submit a link