History Creator / TildaSwinton

* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: [[invoked]] Has done many nasty characters. Averted with the title role of ''Orlando'', her first big starring role and probably the nicest character she has ever played.

* ''Film/{{Suspiria|2018}}'' (2018) as Madame Blanc [[ActingForTwo &]] Dr. Jozef Klemperer, with Swinton being credited as "Lutz Ebersdorf".

* ''Film/{{Suspiria|2018}}'' (2018) as Madame Blanc

* ''Film/TheDeepEnd'' (2001) as Margaret Hall

* ''Film/HailCaesar'' (2016) Thora Thacker [[ActingForTwo and]] Thessaly Thacker
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as The Ancient One
** ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' (2016)

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' as The Ancient One

* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' (2016) as the Ancient One

* PlayingAgainstType: [[invoked]] In ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' she plays a ShrinkingViolet. In ''{{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.]]

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 ten years have seen her move to more mainstream films. She lives in Scotland with her partner Sandro Kopp, and her two children with ex-partner John Byrne ([[NamesTheSame not]] Creator/JohnByrne the comic book artist).

Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton of Kimmerghame (born November 5, 1960) is a British actress of English and [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] descent; 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]]. 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 ten years have seen her move to more mainstream films. She lives in Scotland with her partner Sandro Kopp, and her two children with ex-partner John Byrne ([[NamesTheSame not]] Creator/JohnByrne the comic book artist).

* ''Film/{{Okja}}'' (2017) as Lucy Mirando

Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton of Kimmerghame (born November 5, 1960) is a British actress of English and [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] descent; 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 [[TheHouseOfNormandy the Norman Conquest of 1066]]. 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 ten years have seen her move to more mainstream films. She lives in Scotland with her partner Sandro Kopp, and her two children with ex-partner John Byrne ([[NamesTheSame not]] Creator/JohnByrne the comic book artist).

* AmbiguousGender: Has many roles like this, such as the archangel Gabriel.

Creator/ConanOBrien would like her to play him one day. She's up for it whenever that happens.

* ''Okja'' (2017) as Lucy Mirando

'''Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton of Kimmerghame''' (born November 5, 1960) is a British actress of English and [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] descent; 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 [[TheHouseOfNormandy the Norman Conquest of 1066]]. 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 ten years have seen her move to more mainstream films. She lives in Scotland with her partner Sandro Kopp, and her two children with ex-partner John Byrne ([[NamesTheSame not]] Creator/JohnByrne the comic book artist).

* DoingItForTheArt: She learned Russian and Italian for ''I Am Love.'' No, seriously, she ''learned two languages''.

* PlayingAgainstType: In ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' she plays a ShrinkingViolet. In ''{{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.]]
* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: Has done many nasty characters. Averted with the title role of ''Orlando'', her first big starring role and probably the nicest character she has ever played.

* ''Film/HailCaesar'' (2016)

* ''The War Zone'' (1999) as Mum

* ''Film/SnowPiercer'' (2013)

* IceQueen: Many of her roles. She's ''literally'' an ice queen in ''{{Narnia}}''.

* ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' (2010) as [[IceQueen Jadis the White Witch]]

* ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Film/PrinceCaspian'' (2007) as [[IceQueen Jadis the White Witch]]

* PlayingAgainstType: In ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' she plays a ShrinkingViolet.

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

* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: Has done many nasty characters.

* ''Literature/OrlandoABiography'' (1992) as [[GenderBender Orlando]]