Katherine Matilda Swinton (born November 5, 1960) is an award-winning British actress of Scottish descent, known for her versatile roles in independent films and blockbusters. She is a recipient various accolades throughout her long career, including an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards, in addition to being nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. Swinton began her career by appearing in experimental films starting with Caravaggio (1986), followed by The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), and The Garden (1990). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Isabella of France in Edward II (1991). She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992), for which she received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End (2001), and followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky (2001), Adaptation (2002), Constantine (2005), Julia (2008), and I Am Love (2009). For the film Young Adam (2003), she won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actress. Her performance in Michael Clayton (2007) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Additionally, she won the European Film Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). Swinton has also played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series (2005–2010) and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. Swinton was awarded the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry. In 2013, she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, Swinton was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship, the highest honour presented by the institution, for her "daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and film-maker and recognizes her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy." That same year, The New York Times ranked her thirteenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century up to that point.
168 movies · 22 shows
WOLF
2026·0.0
A Flower of Forgetfulness
2026·0.0
Broken English
2026·7.5
The Coen Brothers - An American Story
2025·6.5
The Tree
2025·0.0
Flat 19
2025·0.0
Ballad of a Small Player
2025·5.8
Camaraderie
2025·0.0
Phantoms
2025·0.0
Timeslip
2025·0.0
Karl
2025·0.0
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
2025·0.0
Instant Coffee
2025·0.0
The End
2024·5.2
Impulse: Playing with Reality
2024·0.0
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024·7.5
The Room Next Door
2024·6.7
January Stories
2024·0.0
Obertura
2024·0.0
Chroma
2024·0.0
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
2024·0.0
Transparent
2024·8.0
Problemista
2024·6.7
The Killer
2023·6.6
Personal History
2023·0.0
Pasolini On Pasolini
2023·0.0
All Kinds of Love
2023·4.0
Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
2023·6.0
Cannes Uncut
2023·5.3
Asteroid City
2023·6.5
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022·7.5
The Eternal Daughter
2022·6.0
Durmiente
2022·0.0
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022·8.0
Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022·6.9
Sleep Song
2022·0.0
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021·5.5
Goliath: Playing with Reality
2021·0.0
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021·7.0
The Souvenir: Part II
2021·6.4
Memoria
2021·6.0
The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
2020·0.0
The Human Voice
2020·6.7
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020·6.0
Last and First Men
2020·6.3
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019·6.4
Uncut Gems
2019·7.2
The Souvenir
2019·6.1
The Dead Don't Die
2019·5.4
Avengers: Endgame
2019·8.2
Suspiria
2018·6.9
Isle of Dogs
2018·7.8
Letters from Generation Rx
2017·5.0
Okja
2017·7.3
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
2017·5.7
War Machine
2017·5.6
Letters from Baghdad
2017·6.8
async - first light
2017·6.0
Tania Libre
2017·0.0
Doctor Strange
2016·7.4
Phantom of the Universe
2016·0.0
Hail, Caesar!
2016·5.9
A Bigger Splash
2015·6.1
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
2015·6.1
Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton.
2015·10.0
Trainwreck
2015·5.8
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015·7.7
Dreams Rewired
2015·4.8
Tilda in de Menil Land
2014·0.0
The Gospel According to St Derek
2014·0.0
Antarctica: On the Edge
2014·6.4
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2014·6.0
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014·5.0
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014·8.0
Hot Dollar
2014·0.0
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013·7.2
The Zero Theorem
2013·6.1
Snowpiercer
2013·6.9
Death for a Unicorn
2013·4.0
When Björk Met Attenborough
2013·7.8
David Bowie: Five Years
2013·7.5
One Water
2013·0.0
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
2013·7.4
Love Flesh
2013·6.5
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
2013·0.0
Radioman
2012·6.3
Ashes
2012·5.3
Moonrise Kingdom
2012·7.7
Song 1
2012·1.0
Planet Tilda
2011·0.0
Cinema Is Everywhere
2011·9.0
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011·7.5
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010·6.4
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010·0.0
Orlando In Uzbekistan
2010·0.0
Climate of Change
2010·0.0
I Am Love
2010·6.7
The Invisible Frame
2009·6.9
The Limits of Control
2009·6.0
Moments on the Set of I Am Love
2009·0.0
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008·7.6
Finding the Burn
2008·0.0
DC Insiders Run Amuck
2008·0.0
The Man from London
2008·7.0
Burn After Reading
2008·6.7
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008·6.6
Julia
2008·6.7
Derek
2008·5.3
The New Ten Commandments
2008·8.7
Cannes: All Access
2007·3.2
Michael Clayton
2007·6.8
Stephanie Daley
2007·5.8
Faceless
2007·0.0
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007·4.8
Strange Culture
2007·4.7
Sleepwalkers
2007·6.7
Hitler's Favourite Royal
2007·0.0
Deep Water
2006·7.2
Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes
2006·0.0
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005·7.1
The Somme
2005·5.9
Thumbsucker
2005·6.2
Broken Flowers
2005·6.9
Absent Presence
2005·0.0
Constantine
2005·7.2
The Statement
2003·5.7
Young Adam
2003·5.9
Adaptation.
2002·7.3
Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
2002·7.0
Teknolust
2002·4.4
Vanilla Sky
2001·6.8
The Deep End
2001·6.2
The Dilapidated Dwelling
2000·6.7
Possible Worlds
2000·6.4
The Beach
2000·6.5
The Protagonists
1999·5.4
The War Zone
1999·6.8
Conceiving Ada
1999·4.7
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998·6.0
Female Perversions
1996·5.1
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1994·4.0
Glitterbug
1994·6.0
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994·9.0
The Open Universe
1993·7.0
Blue
1993·7.2
Wittgenstein
1993·6.4
Orlando
1992·6.9
Hamlet
1992·0.0
Man to Man
1992·0.0
Edward II
1991·6.3
The Party: Nature Morte
1991·10.0
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
1991·0.0
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990·8.0
The Garden
1990·5.7
Play Me Something
1989·5.8
War Requiem
1989·6.3
Volcano Saga
1989·7.0
A Call to Arms
1989·0.0
Cycling the Frame
1988·6.8
Degrees of Blindness
1988·7.0
The Last of England
1987·6.0
Friendship's Death
1987·6.9
Aria
1987·5.3
Depuis le Jour
1987·0.0
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987·5.3
Caravaggio
1986·6.1
Caprice
1986·6.2
The Sluggard
1986·0.0