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Katherine Matilda Swinton was born on 5 November 1960 in London, the daughter of Judith Balfour (née Killen; 1929–2012) and Sir John Swinton (1925–2018), the Laird of Kimmerghame House. She has three brothers. [5]
Mar 26, 2021 · Learn how Tilda Swinton, one of the world's best-respected and most sought-after actresses, rebelled against her privileged upbringing and found her passion for film. See how she evolved from a young girl who felt out of place to a versatile and androgynous star.
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She was born Katherine Mathilda Swinton into a patrician Scottish military family on November 5, 1960, in London, England. Her mother, Judith Balfour, Lady Swinton (née Killen), was Australian, and her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, an army officer, was English-born.
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- “Caravaggio” (1986) Tilda Swinton’s first film was the experimental drama “Caravaggio,” kicking off a long, working relationship with director Derek Jarman.
- “Orlando” (1992) Swinton landed the lead role in Sally Potter’s Elizabethan-era drama “Orlando,” an adaptation of the Virginia Woolf book. It was the first example of Swinton exploring androgynous characters on screen, for which she’s come to be known.
- “The Beach” (2000) Swinton kicked off a string of bigger budget studio projects at the turn of the century, starting with a small part opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Danny Boyle’s adventure “The Beach,” as well as Cameron Crowe’s “Vanilla Sky” in 2001.
- “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” (2005) For the adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s iconic “Chronicles of Narnia” novels, Swinton played the villainous White Witch, bringing her icy glare, exotic fashion sense and intensity to the otherwise campy children’s fantasy.
Apr 2, 2014 · Tilda Swinton was born on November 5, 1960, in London, England. A childhood classmate and friend to Lady Diana, she graduated from Cambridge University in 1983.
Nov 15, 2021 · Credited as Matilda Swinton, the actor moves, dreamlike, through the magazine’s different spreads, swallowed in cartoonish sets and yanked into peppy, choreographed routines.
Nov 5, 2015 · Bertrand Rindoff Petroff—Getty Images Tilda Swinton and Ewan McGregor during the Young Adam premiere in New York City on Oct. 8, 2003.