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Read the latest news and updates on your favorite movies, tv shows & stars. Moviefone is your source for entertainment, movie, DVD, online streaming & TV news. Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress, model, and artist. She is known for her roles in both arthouse and independent films to large.

Tilda Swinton - Wikipedia. Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1. British actress, model, and artist. She is known for her roles in both arthouse and independent films to large- scale Hollywood productions. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Karen Crowder in the 2.

Michael Clayton. She also won the BAFTA Scotland Award as Best Actress for the 2. Young Adam, and has received three nominations for a Golden Globe Award.[1][2]Swinton began her career in films directed by Derek Jarman, starting with Caravaggio (1.

The Last of England (1. War Requiem (1. 98. The Garden (1. 99. Swinton won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance as Isabella of France in Edward II (1. She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando (1. Watch Movie 43 Online. European Film Award for Best Actress. Swinton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End (2.

She followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky (2. Adaptation (2. 00. Constantine (2. 00. Julia (2. 00. 8) and I Am Love (2. 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 (2. She is also known for her performances as the White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia series (2. Her other film appearances include Female Perversions (1.

The War Zone (1. 99. The Beach (2. 00. Thumbsucker (2. 00. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2. Burn After Reading (2. Moonrise Kingdom (2. Only Lovers Left Alive (2.

Snowpiercer (2. 01. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2. Trainwreck (2. 01. A Bigger Splash (2. Doctor Strange (2. Okja (2. 01. 7). Swinton was given the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry. In 2. 01. 3 she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art.[3]Early life[edit]Katherine Matilda Swinton was born on 5 November 1.

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London, the daughter of Judith Balfour (née Killen; 1. Sir John Swinton. She has three brothers.[4] Her father is a retired major general in the British Army, and was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1. Her mother was Australian.[5][6][7] Her paternal great- grandfather was a Scottish politician and herald, George Swinton, and her maternal great- great- grandfather was the Scottish botanist. John Hutton Balfour.[8] The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo- Scots family that can trace its lineage to the Middle Ages.[9] The family is one of only three British families (along with the Ardens and the Berkeleys) that can trace their unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest.[1. Swinton attended three independent schools: Queen's Gate School in London, the West Heath Girls' School, and also Fettes College for a brief period.[1.

West Heath was an expensive boarding school where she was a classmate and friend of Princess Diana.[6] As an adult, Swinton has spoken out against boarding schools, stating that West Heath was "a very lonely and isolating environment" and that she thinks boarding schools "are a very cruel setting in which to grow up and I don’t feel children benefit from that type of education. Children need their parents and the love parents can provide."[1. Swinton went to volunteer in Kenya during a break from college with an educational charity called Project Trust.[1. In 1. 98. 3, Swinton graduated from New Hall (now known as Murray Edwards College) at the University of Cambridge with a degree in Social and Political Sciences. While at Cambridge, she joined the Communist Party; [1.

Scottish Socialist Party. It was in college that Swinton began performing on stage.[1. Swinton joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1. Measure for Measure.[1.

She also worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, starring in Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge in 1. On television, she appeared as Julia in the 1. Zastrozzi: A Romance based on the Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her first film was Caravaggio in 1.

Derek Jarman. She went on to star in several Jarman films, including The Last of England (1. War Requiem (1. 98. Laurence Olivier, and Edward II (1.

Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1. Venice Film Festival. Swinton performed in a performance art piece, Volcano Saga, by Joan Jonas in 1. The 2. 8 minute video art piece is based on a thirteenth- century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, and it tells a mythological myth of a young woman whose dreams tell of the future. Swinton also played the title role in Orlando, Sally Potter's film version of the novel by Virginia Woolf. The part allowed Swinton to explore matters of gender presentation onscreen which reflected her lifelong interest in androgynous style. Swinton later reflected on the role in an interview accompanied by a striking photoshoot.

People talk about androgyny in all sorts of dull ways," said Swinton, noting that the recent rerelease of Orlando had her thinking again about its pliancy. She referred to 1. French artist and playful gender- bender Claude Cahun: "Cahun looked at the limitlessness of an androgynous gesture, which I’ve always been interested in."[1. Recent years have seen Swinton move towards more mainstream projects, including the leading role in the American film The Deep End (2.

For this performance she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She appeared as a supporting character in the films The Beach (2. Leonardo Di. Caprio, Vanilla Sky (2. Tom Cruise and, as the archangel Gabriel in Constantine (2.

Keanu Reeves. Swinton has also appeared in the British films The Statement (2. Young Adam (2. 00.

In 2. 00. 5, Swinton performed as the White Witch Jadis, in the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and as Audrey Cobb in the Mike Mills film adaptation of the novel Thumbsucker. Swinton later had cameos in Narnia's sequels, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In 2. 00. 7, Swinton's performance as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton earned her both a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2. Academy Awards, the film's sole win.[2. Swinton next appeared in the 2.

Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading. Swinton said of the film, in which she plays opposite George Clooney, "I don’t know if it will make anybody else laugh, but it really made us laugh while making it."[2.