Tilda Swinton is a British actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She is known for her collaborations with filmmakers such as Joanna Hogg, Derek Jarman, Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, the Coen Brothers, David Fincher, and Luca Guadagnino. She made her feature film debut in the historical drama Caravaggio (1986). She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Michael Clayton (2007).
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Swinton earned acclaim for her early portrayals of Isabella of France in Derek Jarman's Edward II (1991), and an androgynous nobleman in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992). During this time she also took notable roles in the films such as the drama Friendship's Death (1987), experimental film Wittgenstein (1993), the erotic drama Female Perversions (1996), the British drama The War Zone (1999), the psychological drama Vanilla Sky (2001), the thriller The Deep End (2001), the adventure drama The Beach (2000), and the comedy-drama Adaptation (2002).
She also starred as the White Witch in the film adaptations of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (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 Avengers: Endgame (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).
She has collaborated with English filmmaker Joanna Hogg starting with the short film Caprice (1986) followed by roles in The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir Part II (2021), and The Eternal Daughter (2022). She also acted in four films with Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino starting with The Protagonists (1999) followed by I Am Love (2007), A Bigger Splash (2015), and Suspirira (2018). She also acted in four films with American director Jim Jarmusch starting with Broken Flowers (2005) followed by The Limits of Control (2009), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and The Dead Don't Die (2019).