Tilda Swinton Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Tilda Swinton
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Tilda Swinton’s career and private life facts, read the latest news, find all the awards she has won and view photos and videos.

PERSONAL DATA OF TILDA SWINTON

Age: 60 years
Height: 179 cm
Born in: London, Great Britain
Born on: 05/11/1960

Sons: Xavier Byrne, Honor Byrne

BIOGRAPHY OF TILDA SWINTON

May she be the muse of Derek Jarman, or the protagonist of a cinecomic, Tilda Swinton she remains one of the most talented and charismatic actresses of contemporary cinema.
Born on November 5, 1960 in London, from a high bourgeois family that has a long military tradition behind her, Tilda immediately demonstrates a nonconformist and art-inclined character: she attends exclusive schools (she was Lady Diana) and the university of Cambridge, but at the same time sympathizes with the English Communist Party and the Scottish Socialist Party, is passionate about the theater, and ends up making his way to the cinema thanks to Jarman, who elects her as his muse and has her act in all the films he directs from 1985 until his death.
Tilda Swinton so he made his debut on the big screen with Caravaggio, followed by the segment of Depuis de jour “Air”, The Last of England, Friendship’s Death, War Requiem, The Garden and theEdward II for which Tilda gets the Coppa Volpi in Venice.
In 1992 becomes a symbol of sexual ambiguity and duplicity as the protagonist of Orlando of Sally Potter: a bit like the friend David Bowie (It is no coincidence that a series of shots portraying them together is famous, she dressed as a man and he as a woman). For Orlando is nominated ai European Film Awards and wins a David by Donatello for best foreign actress: and that shortly thereafter comes the role of a female lesbian lawyer in Female perversions no coincidence appears.
After turning, in the 1993, the last two films of Jarman, Wittgenstein is Blue (for which he will obviously record only the voice), Tilda in 1995 she appears in the role of an alien in a video clip of Orbital and is the protagonist of an artistic performance at the Serpentine Gallery in London conceived by Cornelia Parker, for which she apparently remains asleep, for eight hours a day, inside a glass case.
In 1998 meets another director with whom he will collaborate on a permanent basis, Luca Guadagnino, who wants it for his The Protagonists and that he will call you again for the following ones too I am the love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015) and who will also have her in the cast of the announced remake of Suspiria.
In 2000 comes the first real opening of Tilda Swinton at the maistream cinema, agreeing to play the ambiguous and fascinating Sal nel The Beach of Danny Boyle. Then there are other Hollywood productions like the Vanilla Sky by Cameron Crowe, The secrets of the lake (for which she is nominated for a Golden Globe), Constantine (in which is the archangel Gabriel), The Chronicles of Narnia (in which it is the White Witch); but also still independent films such as The orchid thief by Spike Jonze o Thumbsucker by Mike Mills.
In 2005 works for the first time with Jim Jarmusch in Broken Flowers: for the American director he will then also be in the cast of The Limits of Control in 2009 and above all of the beautiful Only lovers survive in 2014, in which she is the vampire Eve alongside Tom Hiddleston.
For the role of the ruthless corporate-woman Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton, in 2008 Tilda Swinton wins a Oscar Prize it’s a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, and gets a nomination for Golden Globe. For the next Julia, is appointed al César. Also in 2008 he works with i Coen brothers in Burn After Reading (will return to work with them in Hail, Caesar!)and with David Fincher in Curious case of Benjamin Button.
In 2011 gets a AND MAKES and a new award at the Globes for the role of the protagonist of … and now let’s talk about Kevin, a film that sees her play the mother of a teenager who committed a massacre in her school.
Then comes the meeting with Wes Anderson, who wants it in Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and who will also call it for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Among his other recent films we mention Snowpiercer of Bong Joon-Ho, adaptation of an oriental comic, and the cinecomic Marvel Doctor Strange, in which he plays the character who has to train the protagonist Benedict Cumberbatch. But it should also be remembered the video clip shot for and with David Bowie, “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)”, directed by Floria Sigismondi.
Style icon, testimonial of Pomellato and of Chanel, collaborator of the stylists Viktor & Rolf, sworn in the most important international festivals, engaged in the struggle for rights LGBT, Tilda Swinton he keeps his private life out of the spotlight. We know that she lives isolated a Nairn, in Scotland, together with his partner, the artist Sandro Kopp, together with the two twins from the previous relationship with the painter and playwright John Byrne.