An accomplished actress of art house and mainstream fare known for her androgynous looks, Tilda Swinton was born in London on Nov. 5, 1960.Due in part to her father's job as head of Queen Elizabeth II's household division, Swinton was educated at the prestigious West Heath Girls School in Kent, where she befriended a young Lady Diana Spencer, the future Princess of Wales. Swinton took up acting at Cambridge University and spent the early part of her career on stage, making her film debut in Caravaggio (1986).
Over the course of a long and varied career, she went on to play a gender-shifting courtier in Orlando (1992); a protective mother in The Deep End (2001), for which she received a Golden Globe nod; the powerful White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series; and a conflicted corporate lawyer in Michael Clayton (2007), for which she earned her first Oscar win for Best Supporting Actress.
I Am LoveOscar winner Tilda Swinton shows off her multilingual skills in director Luca Guadagnino's atmospheric melodrama in which family dissension, unbidden desire and other tensions bubble to the surface during the patriarch's birthday party. When the seemingly picture-perfect Recchi clan gathers at the... Read More
ThumbsuckerTeenager Justin Cobb (Lou Taylor Pucci) has an embarrassing secret: He still sucks his thumb. Berated by his father (Vincent D'Onofrio) for the childish habit and unable to confide in anyone, Justin lets his loopy orthodontist (Keanu Reeves) try hypnosis. Trouble is, it works almost too well, and... Read More
The Man from LondonAfter railway worker Maloin (Miroslav Krobot) witnesses a murder, he retrieves the victim's briefcase full of money from the harbor. A London police inspector (István Lénárt) comes looking for the cash, but for Maloin it's not about wealth; it's about escaping the monotony of... Read More
The StatementDuring World War II, Frenchman Pierre Brossard's Nazi sympathizing led to the deaths of 14 Jews. Years later, it's his turn to be the prey when a Nazi hunter, the police and hired killers pick up his trail. Read More
OrlandoDirector Sally Potter adapts Virginia Woolf's 1928 allegorical novel about a woman who lives for 400 years -- the first half as a man -- in this surrealist study of sex and gender roles throughout the ages. The transition from man to woman and from the 16th to the 20th century is realized by Tilda... Read More
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | PG-13 | |
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) | R | |
Climate of Change (2010) | NR | |
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R | ||
The Limits of Control (2009) | R | |
Julia (2008) | R | |
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R | ||
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Derek (2008) | NR | |
The Man from London (2007) | NR | |
R | ||
Galápagos (2007) | NR | |
Deep Water (2006) | PG | |
Strange Culture (2006) | NR | |
Stephanie Daley (2006) | R | |
Broken Flowers (2005) | R | |
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R | ||
Thumbsucker (2005) | R | |
NR | ||
Young Adam (2004) | R | |
The Statement (2003) | R | |
Teknolust (2002) | R | |
Adaptation (2002) | R | |
Vanilla Sky (2001) | R | |
The Deep End (2001) | R | |
The Beach (2000) | R | |
The War Zone (1999) | NR | |
NR | ||
Conceiving Ada (1997) | NR | |
Female Perversions (1996) | R | |
Wittgenstein (1993) | NR | |
Blue (1993) | NR | |
Orlando (1992) | PG-13 | |
Edward II (1992) | R | |
War Requiem (1989) | NR | |
The Last of England (1988) | NR | |
Aria (1987) | R | |
Caravaggio (1986) | NR | |
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