Profile
Tilda Swinton
Actress
Female
Born
Nov 5, 1960
Age
52
Hometown
London, England
Alma Mater
Cambridge University
Other Names
Swinton, Katherin...
Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is a Scottish actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, The Chronicles of Narnia, and was… Read More
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Sandro KoppMarried 2004
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Tilda Swinton
Age 52
parents
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Judith BalfourMother
children
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XavierSon
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HonorDaughter
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What Would Shakespeare Look Like In 2013?Huffington Post - May 03, 2013
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Watch Tilda Swinton's Barry White Dance Party Honoring Roger Ebert Cinema BlendGoogle News - Apr 26, 2013
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Top Videos: Kimmel Asks About Fake Bands At Coachella, Kate Mc Kinnon And Ellen DanceSeattle Pi - Apr 25, 2013
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Watch: Tilda Swinton Leads Ebertfest Conga LineHuffington Post - Apr 24, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1960
Birth
Born on November 5, 1960.
TWENTIES
1983
22 Years Old
Swinton attended three independent schools, Queen's Gate School in London, the West Heath Girls' School, and also Fettes College for a brief period. In 1983, she graduated from New Hall (now known as Murray Edwards College) at Cambridge University with a degree in Social and Political Sciences.
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1986
25 Years Old
She appeared as Julia in the 1986 television mini-series Zastrozzi: A Romance based on the Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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THIRTIES
1991
30 Years Old
In 1991, Swinton won the Volpi Cup Best Actress award for her role in the postmodern film Edward II.
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1995
34 Years Old
In 1995, with producer and friend 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 a piece of performance art.
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FORTIES
2003
42 Years Old
She was the focus of their 'One Woman Show' 2003, in which they made all the models look like copies of Swinton, and she read a poem (of her own) that included the line, "There is only one you.
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2004
43 Years Old
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.
2005
44 Years Old
In 2005, 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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2007
46 Years Old
In 2007, Swinton's performance as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton earned her both a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2008 80th Academy Awards, the film's sole win.
Swinton next appeared in the 2008 Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading.
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Swinton has collaborated with artist Patrick Wolf on his 2009 album The Bachelor, contributing four spoken word pieces.
FIFTIES
2011
50 Years Old
She stars in the new film adaptation of the novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, released in October 2011.
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2012
51 Years Old
She has joined the cast of Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, a vampire film which will start filming in June 2012.
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