Tilda Swinton
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Tilda Swinton is the red-headed Scottish actress who plays the role of the Queen of Narnia, or more commenly known as the White Witch.
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[edit] Biography
Katherine Matilda “Tilda” Swinton was born on the 5th of November 1960 in London to her Australian mother, Judith Balfour and Scottish father, Major-General Sir John Swinton; she has three brothers. Swinton attended West Health Girls’ School and later Fettes College for a short time. She graduated from Murray Edwards College at Cambridge University in 1983 with a degree in Social and Politicalal Sciences. Swinton recieved an Honorary Doctorates from the Royal Scotish Academy of Music and Drama in July 2006. Before entering a career in film in the 1980’s, Swinton worked with the Traverse Theatre and the Royal Shakespere Company. Swinton lives with painter John Byrne, father of her twins Xavier and Honor in Nairn Scotland; and travels with her platonic partner Sandro Kopp. Swinton founded the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, a film festival, that took place in July 2008 in Nairn.
[edit] Filmography
2009
- The limits of Contol
- Io sono l'amore .... Emma Recchi
2008
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button .... Elizabeth Abbott
- Burn After Reading .... Katie Cox
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian .... The White Witch
- Julia .... Julia
2007
- Michael Clayton .... Karen Crowder
- A Londoni férfi .... Camélia ... aka The Man from London
- Faceless
- Strange Culture .... Hope Kurtz
- Sleepwalkers .... Violinist working as a Copy Clerk
2006
- Stephanie Daley .... Lydie Crane
2005
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe .... White Witch
- The Somme .... Narrator
- Absent Presence .... Operator
- Broken Flowers .... Penny
- Constantine .... voice of Gabriel
- Thumbsucker .... Audrey Cobb
2003
- The Statement .... Annemarie Livi
- Young Adam .... Ella Gault
2002
- Adaptation. .... Valerie Thomas
- Teknolust .... Rosetta/Ruby/Marinne/Olive
2001
- Vanilla Sky .... Rebecca Dearborn
- The Deep End .... Margaret Hall
2000
- Possible Worlds .... Joyce
- The Beach .... Sal
1999
- The War Zone .... Mum
- Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon .... Muriel Belcher
1997
- Conceiving Ada .... Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
1996
- Female Perversions .... Eve Stephens
1994
- Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1993
- Das Offene Universum .... Carla Blue
- Wittgenstein .... Lady Ottoline Morrell
- "Shakespeare: The Animated Tales"-Hamlet .... Ophelia
1992
- Orlando .... Orlando
- Man to Man .... Ella/Max Gericke
1991
- The Party: Nature Morte .... Queenie
- Edward II .... Isabella
1990
- "Your Cheatin' Heart" Cissie Crouch
- The Garden .... Madonna
1989
- Play Me Something .... Hairdresser
- War Requiem .... Nurse
1988
- The Last of England
- Das Andere Ende der Welt
- Degrees of Blindness
- L' Ispirazione,
1987
- Aria .... Young Girl
- Friendship's Death .... Friendship
1986
- Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung .... Sally
- "Zastrozzi: A Romance" .... Julia
- Caravaggio .... Lena
[edit] Trivia
- An entire collection of clothing was inspired by Swinton and was designed by two Dutch fasion designers.
- Spent two years in South Africa and Kenya as a voluntary worker in children's schools, before studying at Cambridge.
- On her days off from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, she could be seen on-set, offering encouragement to her young co-stars.
- Reached great artistic acclaim through her art installation/performance piece "The Maybe", for which she lay sleeping in a glass case on public display for a week.
- Was declared one of the ten best dressed women in the world by Vanity Fair in 2007
[edit] External Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilda_Swinton
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842770/
