Tilda Swinton is a British actress known for her performances on film and television. She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Michael Clayton (2007).
Her early films include Sally Potter's Orlando (1992), Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001), and Spike Jonze's Adaptation (2002). She also starred as the White Witch in the film adaptations of C. S. Lewis' (2005), (2008) and (2010). She also starred in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), and Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). She also appeared in the Marvel films Doctor Strange (2016), and (2019). She is also known for her appearances in the Wes Anderson films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023).
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| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Caravaggio | Lena | Derek Jarman | ||
| Egomania: Island Without Hope | Sally | Christoph Schlingensief | |||
| Caprice | Lucky | Joanna Hogg | Short film | ||
| 1987 | Aria | Young Girl | Derek Jarman | Segment: "Depuis le jour" | |
| Friendship's Death | Friendship | Peter Wollen | |||
| data-sort-value="Last of England, The" | The Last of England | The Maid | Derek Jarman | ||
| 1988 | data-sort-value="Andere Ende der Welt, Das" | Das andere Ende der Welt | Imogen Kimmel | ||
| Cycling the Frame | data-sort-value="Cyclist, The" | The Cyclist | Cynthia Beatt | Short film | |
| Degrees of Blindness | Cerith Wyn Evans | Short film | |||
| data-sort-value="Isirazione, L" | LIspirazione | Derek Jarman | Short film | ||
| 1989 | Play Me Something | Hairdresser | Timothy Neat | ||
| War Requiem | Nurse | Derek Jarman | |||
| 1990 | data-sort-value="Garden, The" | The Garden | Madonna | Derek Jarman | |
| 1991 | Edward II | Isabella | Derek Jarman | ||
| data-sort-value="Party, The" | The Party – Nature Morte | Queenie | Cynthia Beatt | ||
| 1992 | Man To Man | Ella/Max Gericke | John Maybury | ||
| Orlando | Orlando | Sally Potter | |||
| 1993 | Blue | Narrator (voice) | Derek Jarman | ||
| Wittgenstein | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Derek Jarman | |||
| 1994 | Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies | John Maybury | |||
| 1996 | Female Perversions | Eve Stephens | Susan Streitfeld | ||
| 1997 | Conceiving Ada | Ada Byron King | Lynn Hershman Leeson | ||
| Herlizeares | Diera (voice) | ||||
| 1998 | Muriel Belcher | John Maybury | |||
| 1999 | data-sort-value="Protagonists, The" | The Protagonists | Actress | Luca Guadagnino | |
| data-sort-value="War Zone, The" | The War Zone | Mum | Tim Roth | ||
| 2000 | data-sort-value="Beach, The" | The Beach | Sal | Danny Boyle | |
| Possible Worlds | Joyce | Robert Lepage | |||
| 2001 | data-sort-value="Deep End, The" | The Deep End | Margaret Hall | Scott McGehee David Siegel | |
| Vanilla Sky | Rebecca Dearborn | Cameron Crowe | |||
| 2002 | Adaptation | Valerie Thomas | Spike Jonze | ||
| Teknolust | Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive | Lynn Hershman Leeson | |||
| 2003 | data-sort-value="Statement, The" | The Statement | Annemarie Livi | Norman Jewison | |
| Young Adam | Ella Gault | David Mackenzie | |||
| 2005 | Absent Presence | Operator | Martin R. Davison Hussein Chalayan | Short film | |
| Broken Flowers | Penny | Jim Jarmusch | |||
| Constantine | Gabriel | Francis Lawrence | |||
| Thumbsucker | Audrey Cobb | Mike Mills | Also co-executive producer | ||
| data-sort-value="Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The" | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | White Witch | Andrew Adamson | ||
| 2006 | Stephanie Daley | Lydie Crane | Hilary Brougher | ||
| 2007 | Faceless[1] | Narrator (voice) | Manu Luksch | ||
| data-sort-value="Man from London, The" | The Man from London | Camélia | Béla Tarr Ágnes Hranitzky | ||
| Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | Tony Gilroy | |||
| Sleepwalkers | Violinist | Doug Aitken | Short film | ||
| Strange Culture | Hope Kurtz | Lynn Hershman Leeson | Documentary | ||
| 2008 | Burn After Reading | Katie Cox | Joel Coen Ethan Coen | ||
| data-sort-value="Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The" | White Witch | Andrew Adamson | Cameo[2] | ||
| data-sort-value="Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The" | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Elizabeth Abbott | David Fincher | ||
| Derek[3] [4] [5] [6] | Narrator (voice) | Isaac Julien | Documentary; also writer and executive producer | ||
| Julia | Julia | Erick Zonca | |||
| 2009 | I Am Love | Emma Recchi | Luca Guadagnino | Also producer | |
| data-sort-value="Limits of Control, The" | The Limits of Control | Blonde | Jim Jarmusch | ||
| The Invisible Frame | data-sort-value="Cyclist, The" | The Cyclist | Cynthia Beatt | Short film | |
| 2010 | data-sort-value="Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The" | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | White Witch | Michael Apted | |
| 2011 | Genevieve Goes Boating | Narrator (voice) | Lucy Gray | Short film | |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian | Lynne Ramsay | Also executive producer | ||
| 2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | Social Services | Wes Anderson | ||
| 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Eve | Jim Jarmusch | ||
| Snowpiercer | Minister Mason | Bong Joon-ho | |||
| data-sort-value="Zero Theorem, The" | The Zero Theorem | Dr Shrink-Rom | Terry Gilliam | ||
| 2014 | data-sort-value="Grand Budapest Hote, The" | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Madame D. | Wes Anderson | |
| 2015 | data-sort-value="Bigger Splash, A" | A Bigger Splash[7] | Marianne | Luca Guadagnino | |
| Trainwreck | Dianna | Judd Apatow | |||
| 2016 | Doctor Strange | Ancient One | Scott Derrickson | ||
| Hail, Caesar! | Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker | Joel Coen Ethan Coen | |||
| data-sort-value="Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger, The" | The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger | Herself | Bartek Dziadosz Colin MacCabe Christopher Roth Tilda Swinton | Documentary;[8] [9] [10] [11] also co-director, writer and executive producer | |
| 2017 | Letters from Baghdad | Gertrude Bell (voice) | Sabine Krayenbühl Zeva Oelbaum | Documentary; also executive producer | |
| Okja | Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando | Bong Joon-ho | Also co-producer | ||
| War Machine | German Politician | David Michôd | |||
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Oracle (voice) | Wes Anderson | ||
| Suspiria | Madame Blanc / Dr. Josef Klemperer / Mother Helena Markos | Luca Guadagnino | Credited as Lutz Ebersdorf for second role[12] | ||
| 2019 | Ancient One | Anthony Russo Joe Russo | |||
| data-sort-value="Dead Don't Die, The" | The Dead Don't Die | Zelda Winston | Jim Jarmusch | ||
| data-sort-value="Personal History of David Copperfield, The" | The Personal History of David Copperfield | Betsey Trotwood | Armando Iannucci | ||
| data-sort-value="Souvenir 1, The" | The Souvenir | Rosalind | Joanna Hogg | ||
| Uncut Gems | Anne "Adley's Auction Manager" (voice) | Safdie brothers | Cameo | ||
| 2020 | Last and First Men | Narrator (voice) | Jóhann Jóhannsson | ||
| data-sort-value="Human Voice, The" | The Human Voice | Woman | Pedro Almodóvar | Short film | |
| 2021 | data-sort-value="Souvenir 2, The" | The Souvenir Part II | Rosalind | Joanna Hogg | |
| data-sort-value="French Dispatch, The" | The French Dispatch | J.K.L. Berensen | Wes Anderson | ||
| data-sort-value="Memoria" | Memoria | Jessica Holland | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | ||
| 2022 | Three Thousand Years of Longing | Dr. Alithea Binnie | George Miller | ||
| data-sort-value="Eternal Daughter, The" | The Eternal Daughter | Julie / Rosalind | Joanna Hogg | ||
| Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Wood Sprite / Death (voices) | Guillermo del Toro Mark Gustafson | |||
| 2023 | Problemista | Elizabeth | Julio Torres | ||
| Asteroid City | Dr. Hickenlooper | Wes Anderson | |||
| The Killer | The Expert | David Fincher | |||
| 2024 | data-sort-value="Sudden" | A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things | Narrator | Mark Cousins | Documentary |
| The End | Mother | Joshua Oppenheimer | Also producer | ||
| The Room Next Door | Martha | Pedro Almodóvar | |||
| TBA | The Ballad of a Small Player | TBA | Edward Berger | Filming[13] | |
| Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul film | TBA | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Post-production[14] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Zastrozzi, A Romance | Julia | 4 episodes | |
| 1990 | Your Cheatin' Heart | Cissie Crouch | 6 episodes | |
| 1992 | Screenplay | Ella / Max Gericke | Episode: "Man to Man" | |
| Ophelia (voice) | Episode: "Hamlet" | |||
| 1994 | Visions of Heaven and Hell | Narrator (voice) | Television documentary | |
| 2005 | data-sort-value="Somme, The" | The Somme | Narrator (voice) | Television documentary |
| 2006 | Galápagos | Narrator (voice) | 3 episodes | |
| 2012 | Getting On | Elke | Episode 6 (season 3) | |
| 2013 | When Björk Met Attenborough | Narrator (voice) | Television documentary | |
| 2019 | What We Do in the Shadows | Tilda | Episode: "The Trial" | |
| 2021 | What If...? | Ancient One (voice) | Episode: "What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?" | |
| 2024 | The Boys | Ambrosius (voice) | 3 episodes |
| Year | Title | Artist | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | data-sort-value="The Box" | The Box | Orbital | Jes Benstock and Luke Losey |
| 2013 | data-sort-value="Stars (Are Out Tonight), The" | "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" | David Bowie | Floria Sigismondi |