Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton was the red-headed Scottish actress who plays the role of the Queen of Narnia, or more commenly known as the White Witch.



Biography
Katherine Matilda “Tilda” Swinton was born on the 5th of November 1960 in London to her Australian mother, Judith Balfour and Scottish father, Major-General Sir John Swinton; she has three brothers. Swinton attended West Health Girls’ School and later Fettes College for a short time. She graduated from Murray Edwards College at Cambridge University in 1983 with a degree in Social and Politicalal Sciences. Swinton recieved an Honorary Doctorates from the Royal Scotish Academy of Music and Drama in July 2006. Before entering a career in film in the 1980’s, Swinton worked with the Traverse Theatre and the Royal Shakespere Company. Swinton lives with painter John Byrne, father of her twins Xavier and Honor in Nairn Scotland; and travels with her platonic partner Sandro Kopp. Swinton founded the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, a film festival, that took place in July 2008 in Nairn.

Filmography
2009

2008
 * The limits of Contol
 * Io sono l'amore .... Emma Recchi

2007
 * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button .... Elizabeth Abbott
 * Burn After Reading .... Katie Cox
 * The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian .... The White Witch
 * Julia .... Julia

2006
 * Michael Clayton .... Karen Crowder
 * A Londoni férfi .... Camélia ... aka The Man from London
 * Faceless
 * Strange Culture .... Hope Kurtz
 * Sleepwalkers .... Violinist working as a Copy Clerk

2005
 * Stephanie Daley .... Lydie Crane

2003
 * The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe .... White Witch
 * The Somme .... Narrator
 * Absent Presence .... Operator
 * Broken Flowers .... Penny
 * Constantine .... voice of Gabriel
 * Thumbsucker .... Audrey Cobb

2002
 * The Statement .... Annemarie Livi
 * Young Adam .... Ella Gault

2001
 * Adaptation. .... Valerie Thomas
 * Teknolust .... Rosetta/Ruby/Marinne/Olive

2000
 * Vanilla Sky .... Rebecca Dearborn
 * The Deep End .... Margaret Hall

1999
 * Possible Worlds .... Joyce
 * The Beach .... Sal

1997
 * The War Zone .... Mum
 * Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon .... Muriel Belcher

1996
 * Conceiving Ada .... Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace

1994
 * Female Perversions .... Eve Stephens

1993
 * Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

1992
 * Das Offene Universum .... Carla Blue
 * Wittgenstein .... Lady Ottoline Morrell
 * "Shakespeare: The Animated Tales"-Hamlet .... Ophelia

1991
 * Orlando .... Orlando
 * Man to Man .... Ella/Max Gericke

1990
 * The Party: Nature Morte .... Queenie
 * Edward II .... Isabella

1989
 * "Your Cheatin' Heart" Cissie Crouch
 * The Garden .... Madonna

1988
 * Play Me Something .... Hairdresser
 * War Requiem .... Nurse

1987
 * The Last of England
 * Das Andere Ende der Welt
 * Degrees of Blindness
 * L' Ispirazione,

1986
 * Aria .... Young Girl
 * Friendship's Death .... Friendship


 * Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung .... Sally
 * "Zastrozzi: A Romance" .... Julia
 * Caravaggio .... Lena

Trivia

 * An entire collection of clothing was inspired by Swinton and was designed by two Dutch fashion designers.
 * Spent two years in South Africa and Kenya as a voluntary worker in children's schools, before studying at Cambridge.
 * On her days off from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, she could be seen on-set, offering encouragement to her young co-stars.
 * Reached great artistic acclaim through her art installation/performance piece "The Maybe", for which she lay sleeping in a glass case on public display for a week.
 * Was declared one of the ten best dressed women in the world by Vanity Fair in 2007