History Creator / TildaSwinton

* ''Film/AsteroidCity'' (2023)

* ''Aria'' (1987) as Young Girl

* ActorInspiredElement:[[invoked]] For the film ''A Bigger Splash'', she suggested the character not being able to speak - drawing inspiration from the recent death of her mother.

* AwesomeDearBoy:[[invoked]] She loved playing Jadis in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' and came back for the films on ''Film/PrinceCaspian'' and ''Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' (when Jadis didn't appear in the books) because she enjoys playing her that much. She's greatly looking forward to an adaptation of ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew''.

* DoingItForTheArt: [[invoked]] She learned Russian and Italian for ''I Am Love.'' No, seriously, she ''learned two languages''.
* DyeingForYourArt:[[invoked]] For ''Film/MichaelClayton'' she gained about twenty pounds.

* HideYourPregnancy:[[invoked]] For ''Love is the Devil'', she was filmed from the chest up in a lot of scenes.

* MadArtist: The Museum of Modern Art: Come for the ambiance, stay for Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass box.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She has a slightly ageless look that has benefited her in roles where she plays characters who is much older than they look, such as in ''Orlando'', ''Constantine'' and ''Only Lovers Left Alive''.
* PlayingAgainstType: [[invoked]] In ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' she plays a ShrinkingViolet. In ''Film/{{Trainwreck}}'', she plays an AlphaBitch magazine editor who looks traditionally feminine; thanks to make-up and a wig, [[https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/tilda-swinton-800.jpg?w=800&h=600&crop=1 Swinton is nearly unrecognizable in the film.]] In ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', she's [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/madamed.jpg barely recognizable]] in a small but striking comedic role as a makeup-slathered elderly UpperClassTwit.

* StarMakingRole:[[invoked]] While ''{{Film/Orlando}}'' brought her to attention, she started appearing in a lot of critically acclaimed films after ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''.

* ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'' (2022) as the Turquoise Fairy

She studied social and political science at Cambridge, and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and later the Scottish Socialist Party. After graduating in 1983, she briefly worked in theater before acting in films. Her initial projects were very [[LeFilmArtistique experimental and artistic]], but the last two decades have seen her move to more mainstream films. She lives in Scotland with her partner Sandro Kopp, and her two children (Xavier and Honor) with ex-partner John Byrne ([[NamesTheSame not]] Creator/JohnByrne the comic book artist).

* ''The Souvenir'' (2019) as Julie's Mother, with Julie being played by [[RealLifeRelative her daughter]] Honor Swinton Byrne.

* ActingForTwo: In ''Teknolust'', ''Hail, Caesar!'', ''Okja'' and ''Suspiria'', [[spoiler:which is an example of Acting For ''Three'']].

* AmbiguousGender: Has many roles like this, such as the archangel Gabriel. She was also up for the role of Pennywise in ''Film/{{It 2017}}''

* ''Film/ThreeThousandYearsOfLonging'' as Alithea Binnie

** Taken UpToEleven in ''Suspiria'' where she not only plays Dr. Jozef Klemperer, but going as far as to play the role under the pseudonym of "Lutz Ebersdorf".

She studied social and political science at Cambridge, and joined the Communist Party. After graduating in 1983, she briefly worked in theater before acting in films. Her initial projects were very [[LeFilmArtistique experimental and artistic]], but the last two decades have seen her move to more mainstream films. She lives in Scotland with her partner Sandro Kopp, and her two children (Xavier and Honor) with ex-partner John Byrne ([[NamesTheSame not]] Creator/JohnByrne the comic book artist).

Creator/ConanOBrien would like her to play him one day. She's up for it whenever that happens. And a highly popular choice for any biopic of Music/DavidBowie that might happen.

* ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' (2005) as the ArchangelGabriel

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* ''[[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare: The Animated Tales]]'' (1992) as [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]]

* ''Film/SnowPiercer'' (2013) as Mason

* ''[[Music/TheNextDay "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)"]]'' (2013), music video with Music/DavidBowie

* ''[[Literature/DavidCopperfield The Personal History of David Copperfield]]'' (2020) as Aunty Betsey

Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton of Kimmerghame (born November 5, 1960 in London, England) is a British actress of English and [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] descent. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Swinton Her family]] is one of only three in the entire United Kingdom that is able to trace their land ownership in an unbroken line to before [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy the Norman Conquest of 1066]].