Tilda Swinton

ActorProducerDirectorCrewProduction Nov 5 (age 65) London, England, UK 1986–2026 (40 year career)

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Biography

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 La…

Known For

Film

Avengers: Endgame

The Ancient One

Film

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Madame D.

Film

Call Me by Your Name

Thanks

Film

Doctor Strange

The Ancient One

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Elizabeth Abbott

Film

Moonrise Kingdom

Social Services

Film

Isle of Dogs

Oracle (voice)

Film

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

White Witch

Filmography

Acting (186)

Movies (167)

Broken English

2026

as The Overseer

7.0

Heart of Light: Eleven Songs for Fiji

2026

Ballad of a Small Player

2025

as Cynthia Blithe

5.8

The Coen Brothers - An American Story

2025

as Self

Phantoms

2025

Karl

2025

as Self

Camaraderie

2025

Timeslip

2025

Instant Coffee

2025

as Self

The Tree

Flat 19

Problemista

as Elizabeth

January Stories

The Room Next Door

as Martha / Michelle

The End

as Mother

Impulse: Playing with Reality

2024

as Narrator

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

2024

as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice)

Chroma

Transparent

Obertura

as The Gardenerette

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze

2024

as Self

The Killer

as The Expert

Asteroid City

as Dr. Hickenlooper

Some Thoughts On The Common Toad

2023

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

All Kinds of Love

2023

as Self

Cannes Uncut

as Self

The Eternal Daughter

as Julie / Rosalind

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

2022

as Wood Sprite / Death (voice)

8.0

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

as Alithea

6.9

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

as Self

Durmiente

Sleep Song

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

2021

as J.K.L. Berensen

7.0

The Souvenir: Part II

as Rosalind

Memoria

as Jessica Holland

Goliath: Playing with Reality

2021

as Narrator (voice)

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

as Self

Last and First Men

as Narrator (voice)

The Human Voice

as Woman

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

2020

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode

2020

as Self

Avengers: Endgame

2019

as The Ancient One

8.2

Uncut Gems

2019

as Anne - Adley's Auction Manager (voice)

The Souvenir

as Rosalind

The Dead Don't Die

as Zelda Winston

The Personal History of David Copperfield

as Betsey Trotwood

Isle of Dogs

as Oracle (voice)

Suspiria

as Madame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos

War Machine

as German Politician

Okja

as Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando

async - first light

Letters from Baghdad

as Gertrude Bell (voice)

6.7

Letters from Generation Rx

2017

as Narrator (voice)

5.0

Tania Libre

2017

as Narrator (voice)

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

as Self

Doctor Strange

as The Ancient One

Hail, Caesar!

as Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker

5.9

Phantom of the Universe

2016

as Narrator

Trainwreck

as Dianna

A Bigger Splash

as Marianne Lane

Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

2015

as Self / Social Services

6.1

Dreams Rewired

2015

as Narrator (voice)

4.8

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

2015

as Self

7.7

Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton.

2015

as Self

10.0

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

as Madame D.

8.0

Antarctica: On the Edge

2014

as Narrator (voice)

6.4

Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch

2014

as Self

6.0

Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen

2014

as Self

5.0

The Gospel According to St Derek

2014

as Self

Hot Dollar

2014

Snowpiercer

2013

as Mason

6.9

The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

The Zero Theorem

as Dr. Shrink-Rom

David Bowie: Five Years

2013

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

When Björk Met Attenborough

2013

as Narrator (voice)

7.8

Only Lovers Left Alive

2013

as Eve

7.2

One Water

2013

Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

2013

as Narrator (voice)

Death for a Unicorn

as Narrator (voice)

Love Flesh

as Self

Moonrise Kingdom

as Social Services

Radioman

as Self

Ashes

as Self

Song 1

as Self

We Need to Talk About Kevin

2011

as Eva Khatchadourian

7.5

Cinema Is Everywhere

2011

as Self

9.0

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2010

as White Witch

6.4

Behind Jim Jarmusch

2010

as Self

I Am Love

2010

as Emma Recchi

6.8

Climate of Change

2010

as Narrator (voice)

Orlando In Uzbekistan

2010

as Self

The Limits of Control

2009

as Blonde

6.0

Moments on the Set of I Am Love

2009

as Self

The Invisible Frame

2009

as The Cyclist

6.8

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

as Elizabeth Abbott

7.6

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

as White Witch

Burn After Reading

as Katie Cox

Julia

as Julia

The Man from London

as Camélia

Derek

as Narrator (voice)

Finding the Burn

as Self / Katie Cox (archive footage)

The New Ten Commandments

2008

as Self

8.7

DC Insiders Run Amuck

2008

as Self

Michael Clayton

as Karen Crowder

Stephanie Daley

as Lydie Crane

Sleepwalkers

as Violinist Working As a Copy Clerk

6.7

Cannes: All Access

2007

as Self

3.8

Hitler's Favourite Royal

2007

as Narrator

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

2007

as Self

4.8

Faceless

2007

as Narrator (voice)

Strange Culture

as Hope Kurtz

Deep Water

as Narrator (voice)

Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes

2006

as Self

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

as White Witch

Constantine

as Gabriel

Broken Flowers

as Penny

Thumbsucker

as Audrey Cobb

The Somme

as Narrator (voice)

Absent Presence

The Statement

as Annemarie Livi

Young Adam

as Ella Gault

Adaptation.

as Valerie Thomas

Teknolust

as Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive

4.3

Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory

2002

as Self

Vanilla Sky

as Rebecca Dearborn

The Deep End

as Margaret Hall

The Beach

as Sal

The Dilapidated Dwelling

as Narrator (voice)

Possible Worlds

as Joyce

The War Zone

as Mum

Conceiving Ada

as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace

4.3

The Protagonists

1999

as Actress

5.3

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

as Muriel Belcher

Female Perversions

as Evelyn Stephens

Visions of Heaven and Hell

1994

as Narrator (voice)

Glitterbug

1994

as Self

5.9

Death of a World Star

1994

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

10.0

Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

1994

2.0

Wittgenstein

1993

as Lady Ottoline Morrell

Blue

as (voice)

The Open Universe

as Carla

Orlando

1992

as Orlando

6.9

Man to Man

1992

as Ella / Max Gerike

Hamlet

1992

as Ophelia

The Party: Nature Morte

1991

as Queenie

Edward II

1991

as Isabella

6.1

Derek Jarman: A Portrait

1991

as Self

The Garden

1990

as Madonna/Voice Overs

Your Cheatin' Heart

War Requiem

as The Nurse

Volcano Saga

as Gudrun

Play Me Something

as Hairdresser

A Call to Arms

Cycling the Frame

as The Cyclist

Degrees of Blindness

Friendship's Death

as Friendship

Aria

as Young Girl

The Last of England

as The Maid

Egomania: Island Without Hope

as Sally

Depuis le Jour

Caravaggio

as Lena

Caprice

as Lucky

The Sluggard

as The Sluggard

Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project

Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream

Death in Her Hands

as Vesta Gul

WOLF

Television (19)

Fantasmas

2024

as Water (voice)

6.3

What If...?

2021

as The Ancient One (voice)

8.1

Marvel Studios Legends

2021

as The Ancient One (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.4

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

as Narrator (voice)

The Boys

as Ambrosius (voice)

What We Do in the Shadows

2019

as Tilda

8.0

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self

6.2

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self - Guest

5.2

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

as Self

Women, War & Peace

as Narrator (voice)

Getting On

as Elke

Galapagos

as Self - Presenter

Made in Hollywood

as Self

The Daily Show

as Self

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Ophelia (voice)

Your Cheatin' Heart

as Cissie Crouch

Zastrozzi: A Romance

as Julia

The Oscars

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (22)

Movies (21)

The End

2024

Producer

5.3

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze

2024

Director

Ott torony volt

Executive Producer

Memoria

Executive Producer

Call Me by Your Name

Thanks

Okja

Co-Producer

Letters from Baghdad

Executive Producer

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

2017

Director

5.7

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

Writer

Paterson

Thanks

Here

Idea

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Executive Producer

I Am Love

Producer

Derek

Executive Producer

Derek

Writer

The New Ten Commandments

Director

Stephanie Daley

Executive Producer

Thumbsucker

Co-Executive Producer

6.2

Paradise

Director

WOLF

Executive Producer

We Will Wake

Director

Television (1)

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

2020

Executive Producer

7.0