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Katherine Matilda Swinton (born November 5, 1960) is an award-winning British actress of Scottish descent, known for her versatile roles in independent films and blockbusters. She is a recipient various accolades throughout her long career, including an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards, in addition to being nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. Swinton began her career by appearing in experimental films starting with Caravaggio (1986), followed by The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), and The Garden (1990). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Isabella of France in Edward II (1991). She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992), for which she received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End (2001), and followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky (2001), Adaptation (2002), Constantine (2005), Julia (2008), and I Am Love (2009). For the film Young Adam (2003), she won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actress. Her performance in Michael Clayton (2007) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Additionally, 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 (2011). Swinton has also played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series (2005–2010) and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. Swinton was awarded the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry. In 2013, she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, Swinton was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship, the highest honour presented by the institution, for her "daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and film-maker and recognizes her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy." That same year, The New York Times ranked her thirteenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century up to that point.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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October 15th, 2025 | Ballad of a Small Player | Cynthia Blithe | 5.8 | |
December 6th, 2024 | The End | Mother | 5.3 | |
October 7th, 2024 | The Room Next Door | Martha / Michelle | 6.7 | |
October 25th, 2023 | The Killer | The Expert | 6.6 | |
June 20th, 2023 | All Kinds of Love | Self | 4 | |
June 17th, 2023 | Some Thoughts On The Common Toad | Narrator (voice) | 6 | |
June 12th, 2023 | Cannes Uncut | Self | 6.2 | |
December 9th, 2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema | Self | 7.5 | |
November 10th, 2022 | Durmiente | TBD | TBD | |
November 1st, 2021 | Goliath: Playing with Reality | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
November 6th, 2020 | The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode | Self | TBD | |
August 30th, 2019 | Uncut Gems | Anne - Adley's Auction Manager (voice) | 7.2 | |
February 5th, 2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker | 5.9 | |
November 26th, 2015 | A Bigger Splash | Marianne Lane | 6.2 | |
September 22nd, 2015 | Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom' | Self / Social Services | 6.1 | |
July 17th, 2015 | Trainwreck | Dianna | 5.8 | |
February 5th, 2015 | B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 | Self | 7.7 | |
February 1st, 2015 | Dreams Rewired | Narrator (voice) | 4.8 | |
October 20th, 2014 | The Gospel According to St Derek | Self | TBD | |
April 22nd, 2014 | Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch | Self | 6 | |
February 26th, 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Madame D. | 8 | |
December 12th, 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Eve | 7.2 | |
September 20th, 2013 | The Zero Theorem | Dr. Shrink-Rom | 6.1 | |
August 1st, 2013 | Snowpiercer | Mason | 6.9 | |
August 1st, 2013 | Death for a Unicorn | Narrator (voice) | 4 | |
May 25th, 2013 | David Bowie: Five Years | Self (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
February 6th, 2013 | Love Flesh | Self | 6.5 | |
January 1st, 2013 | Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
December 7th, 2012 | Radioman | Self | 6.3 | |
May 16th, 2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | Social Services | 7.7 | |
October 22nd, 2011 | Cinema Is Everywhere | Self | 9 | |
September 28th, 2011 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian | 7.5 | |
December 2nd, 2010 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | White Witch | 6.4 | |
September 1st, 2010 | Behind Jim Jarmusch | Self | TBD | |
May 12th, 2010 | Climate of Change | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
March 19th, 2010 | I Am Love | Emma Recchi | 6.7 | |
November 12th, 2009 | The Invisible Frame | The Cyclist | 6.8 | |
May 1st, 2009 | The Limits of Control | Blonde | 6 | |
December 25th, 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Elizabeth Abbott | 7.6 | |
September 24th, 2008 | The Man from London | Camélia | 7.1 | |
September 5th, 2008 | Burn After Reading | Katie Cox | 6.7 | |
May 15th, 2008 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | White Witch | 6.6 | |
March 12th, 2008 | Julia | Julia | 6.7 | |
September 28th, 2007 | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | 6.8 | |
April 20th, 2007 | Stephanie Daley | Lydie Crane | 5.8 | |
February 16th, 2007 | Here’s Looking at You, Boy | Self | 4.8 | |
February 9th, 2007 | Strange Culture | Hope Kurtz | 4.7 | |
January 16th, 2007 | Sleepwalkers | Violinist Working As a Copy Clerk | 6.7 | |
December 15th, 2006 | Deep Water | Narrator (voice) | 7.2 | |
January 24th, 2006 | Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes | Self | TBD | |
December 7th, 2005 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | White Witch | 7.1 | |
September 16th, 2005 | Thumbsucker | Audrey Cobb | 6.2 | |
July 31st, 2005 | Broken Flowers | Penny | 6.9 | |
February 8th, 2005 | Constantine | Gabriel | 7.1 | |
December 12th, 2003 | The Statement | Annemarie Livi | 5.6 | |
September 26th, 2003 | Young Adam | Ella Gault | 5.8 | |
December 6th, 2002 | Adaptation. | Valerie Thomas | 7.3 | |
January 10th, 2002 | Teknolust | Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive | 4.4 | |
December 14th, 2001 | Vanilla Sky | Rebecca Dearborn | 6.8 | |
January 21st, 2001 | The Deep End | Margaret Hall | 6.2 | |
October 6th, 2000 | The Dilapidated Dwelling | Narrator (voice) | 6.7 | |
September 4th, 2000 | Possible Worlds | Joyce | 6.4 | |
February 3rd, 2000 | The Beach | Sal | 6.5 | |
September 10th, 1999 | The Protagonists | Actress | 5.4 | |
June 11th, 1999 | The War Zone | Mum | 6.8 | |
February 19th, 1999 | Conceiving Ada | Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace | 4.7 | |
September 16th, 1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Muriel Belcher | 6 | |
November 21st, 1996 | Female Perversions | Evelyn Stephens | 5.1 | |
May 1st, 1994 | Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies | TBD | 4 | |
March 5th, 1994 | Glitterbug | Self | 6 | |
August 19th, 1993 | Blue | (voice) | 7.1 | |
March 26th, 1993 | Wittgenstein | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 6.4 | |
December 11th, 1992 | Orlando | Orlando | 6.9 | |
September 11th, 1991 | Edward II | Isabella | 6.2 | |
September 6th, 1991 | The Party: Nature Morte | Queenie | 10 | |
September 6th, 1990 | The Garden | Madonna/Voice Overs | 5.6 | |
January 6th, 1989 | War Requiem | The Nurse | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 1989 | Volcano Saga | Gudrun | TBD | |
August 30th, 1988 | Cycling the Frame | The Cyclist | 6.8 | |
January 1st, 1988 | Degrees of Blindness | TBD | 7 | |
August 17th, 1987 | Friendship's Death | Friendship | 6.9 | |
May 27th, 1987 | Aria | Young Girl | 5.4 | |
May 20th, 1987 | Egomania: Island Without Hope | Sally | 5.2 | |
August 29th, 1986 | Caravaggio | Lena | 6.1 | |
January 1st, 1986 | The Sluggard | The Sluggard | TBD | |
TBD | Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project | TBD | TBD | |
September 10th, 2026 | Heart of Light: Eleven Songs for Fiji | TBD | TBD | |
June 11th, 2026 | WOLF | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
May 8th, 2026 | A Flower of Forgetfulness | TBD | TBD | |
January 22nd, 2026 | Broken English | The Overseer | 7 | |
December 8th, 2025 | The Coen Brothers - An American Story | Self | TBD | |
December 6th, 2025 | The Tree | TBD | TBD | |
November 11th, 2025 | Flat 19 | TBD | TBD | |
September 28th, 2025 | Camaraderie | TBD | TBD | |
September 28th, 2025 | Phantoms | TBD | TBD | |
September 25th, 2025 | Timeslip | TBD | TBD | |
August 29th, 2025 | Karl | Self | TBD | |
January 24th, 2025 | Instant Coffee | Self | TBD | |
November 15th, 2024 | Impulse: Playing with Reality | Narrator | TBD | |
October 18th, 2024 | A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice) | 7.5 | |
October 2nd, 2024 | January Stories | TBD | TBD | |
September 11th, 2024 | Obertura | The Gardenerette | TBD | |
July 21st, 2024 | Chroma | TBD | TBD | |
June 13th, 2024 | The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze | Self | TBD | |
June 12th, 2024 | Transparent | TBD | 8 | |
March 1st, 2024 | Problemista | Elizabeth | 6.8 | |
October 4th, 2023 | Personal History | TBD | TBD | |
June 8th, 2023 | Asteroid City | Dr. Hickenlooper | 6.5 | |
December 2nd, 2022 | The Eternal Daughter | Julie / Rosalind | 5.9 | |
November 9th, 2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Wood Sprite / Death (voice) | 8 | |
August 24th, 2022 | Three Thousand Years of Longing | Alithea | 6.9 | |
January 1st, 2022 | Sleep Song | TBD | TBD | |
December 10th, 2021 | The Storms of Jeremy Thomas | Self | 5.5 | |
October 21st, 2021 | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun | J.K.L. Berensen | 7 | |
October 11th, 2021 | The Souvenir: Part II | Rosalind | 6.5 | |
September 30th, 2021 | Memoria | Jessica Holland | 6 | |
September 3rd, 2020 | The Human Voice | Woman | 6.7 | |
August 20th, 2020 | Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
February 25th, 2020 | Last and First Men | Narrator (voice) | 6.3 | |
November 7th, 2019 | The Personal History of David Copperfield | Betsey Trotwood | 6.4 | |
May 17th, 2019 | The Souvenir | Rosalind | 6.1 | |
May 15th, 2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Zelda Winston | 5.4 | |
April 24th, 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | The Ancient One | 8.2 | |
October 26th, 2018 | Suspiria | Madame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos | 6.9 | |
March 23rd, 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Oracle (voice) | 7.8 | |
July 18th, 2017 | Letters from Generation Rx | Narrator (voice) | 5 | |
June 28th, 2017 | Okja | Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando | 7.3 | |
June 23rd, 2017 | The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger | Self | 5.7 | |
May 26th, 2017 | War Machine | German Politician | 5.6 | |
April 21st, 2017 | Letters from Baghdad | Gertrude Bell (voice) | 6.7 | |
April 1st, 2017 | async - first light | TBD | 6 | |
February 14th, 2017 | Tania Libre | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
October 25th, 2016 | Doctor Strange | The Ancient One | 7.4 | |
October 18th, 2016 | Phantom of the Universe | Narrator | TBD | |
September 22nd, 2015 | Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton. | Self | 10 | |
November 24th, 2014 | Tilda in de Menil Land | TBD | TBD | |
October 19th, 2014 | Antarctica: On the Edge | Narrator (voice) | 6.4 | |
April 2nd, 2014 | Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen | Self | 5 | |
January 23rd, 2014 | Hot Dollar | TBD | TBD | |
July 26th, 2013 | When Björk Met Attenborough | Narrator (voice) | 7.8 | |
April 5th, 2013 | One Water | TBD | TBD | |
February 25th, 2013 | The Stars (Are Out Tonight) | TBD | 7.2 | |
May 19th, 2012 | Ashes | Self | 5.3 | |
March 22nd, 2012 | Song 1 | Self | 1 | |
November 17th, 2011 | Planet Tilda | TBD | TBD | |
August 17th, 2010 | Orlando In Uzbekistan | Self | TBD | |
January 1st, 2009 | Moments on the Set of I Am Love | Self | TBD | |
December 21st, 2008 | Finding the Burn | Self / Katie Cox (archive footage) | TBD | |
December 21st, 2008 | DC Insiders Run Amuck | Self | TBD | |
February 19th, 2008 | Derek | Narrator (voice) | 5.3 | |
January 2nd, 2008 | The New Ten Commandments | Self | 8.7 | |
October 27th, 2007 | Cannes: All Access | Self | 3.8 | |
March 20th, 2007 | Faceless | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
January 1st, 2007 | Hitler's Favourite Royal | Narrator | TBD | |
November 14th, 2005 | The Somme | Narrator (voice) | 5.9 | |
June 9th, 2005 | Absent Presence | TBD | TBD | |
October 10th, 2002 | Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory | Self | 7 | |
June 1st, 1994 | Death of a World Star | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 9 | |
January 31st, 1994 | Visions of Heaven and Hell | Narrator (voice) | 9 | |
October 16th, 1993 | The Open Universe | Carla | 7 | |
December 7th, 1992 | Hamlet | Ophelia | TBD | |
August 26th, 1992 | Man to Man | Ella / Max Gerike | TBD | |
January 25th, 1991 | Derek Jarman: A Portrait | Self | TBD | |
October 11th, 1990 | Your Cheatin' Heart | TBD | 8 | |
February 18th, 1989 | Play Me Something | Hairdresser | 5.8 | |
January 1st, 1989 | A Call to Arms | TBD | TBD | |
August 23rd, 1987 | The Last of England | The Maid | 6 | |
May 27th, 1987 | Depuis le Jour | TBD | TBD | |
June 15th, 1986 | Caprice | Lucky | 6.1 | |
TBD | Death in Her Hands | Vesta Gul | TBD | |
TBD | Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream | TBD | TBD |