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20TH edition NOVEMBER 24 TO DECEMBER 2, 2023

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TILDA SWINTON

Actor

Scotland

October 28, 2022

Biography

Tilda Swinton started making films with the director Derek Jarman in 1985 with
Caravaggio.
Her second film was Peter Wollen’s Friendship’s Death. She and Jarman made seven
more films together, including The Last of England, The Garden, War Requiem,
Edward II (for which she won the Best Actress award at the 1991 Venice
International Film Festival) and Wittgenstein, before Jarman’s death in 1994. She
gained wider international recognition in 1992 with her portrayal of Orlando, based
on the novel by Virginia Woolf under the direction of Sally Potter.
She has established rewarding ongoing filmmaking relationships with Jim Jarmusch –
including Only Lovers Left Alive and The Dead Don’t Die, Joel and Ethan Coen, Lynne
Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger
Splash, Suspiria), Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir Parts 1 and 2,) and Bong Joon Ho
(Snowpiercer and Okja).
Tilda also worked with the Hungarian master Béla Tarr (The Man from London), and
has featured in the critically acclaimed comedy Trainwreck by Amy Schumer directed
by Judd Apatow. In 2020 she made The Human Voice with Pedro Almodóvar.
She received both the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of
2008 for Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton. In 2020, she was the recipient of both a BFI
Fellowship and a Leon d’Oro at the Venice film festival for her lifetime’s work. In
2022, she received the AMPAS Visionary award along with Julia Roberts, Sir Steve
McQueen and Miky Lee.
In 2021, Tilda shot George Miller's Three Thousand Years Of Longing in Australia
opposite Idris Elba, reunited with Wes Anderson for the fifth time for Asteroid City
and Joanna Hogg for a third time on The Eternal Daughter. She recently shot with
Julio Torres on his Untitled Feature Comedy with A24 and David Fincher on The Killer
for Netflix.

Tilda Swinton started making films with the director Derek Jarman in 1985 with
Caravaggio.
Her second film was Peter Wollen’s Friendship’s Death. She and Jarman made seven
more films together, including The Last of England, The Garden, War Requiem,
Edward II (for which she won the Best Actress award at the 1991 Venice
International Film Festival) and Wittgenstein, before Jarman’s death in 1994. She
gained wider international recognition in 1992 with her portrayal of Orlando, based
on the novel by Virginia Woolf under the direction of Sally Potter.
She has established rewarding ongoing filmmaking relationships with Jim Jarmusch –
including Only Lovers Left Alive and The Dead Don’t Die, Joel and Ethan Coen, Lynne
Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger
Splash, Suspiria), Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir Parts 1 and 2,) and Bong Joon Ho
(Snowpiercer and Okja).
Tilda also worked with the Hungarian master Béla Tarr (The Man from London), and
has featured in the critically acclaimed comedy Trainwreck by Amy Schumer directed
by Judd Apatow. In 2020 she made The Human Voice with Pedro Almodóvar.
She received both the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of
2008 for Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton. In 2020, she was the recipient of both a BFI
Fellowship and a Leon d’Oro at the Venice film festival for her lifetime’s work. In
2022, she received the AMPAS Visionary award along with Julia Roberts, Sir Steve
McQueen and Miky Lee.
In 2021, Tilda shot George Miller's Three Thousand Years Of Longing in Australia
opposite Idris Elba, reunited with Wes Anderson for the fifth time for Asteroid City
and Joanna Hogg for a third time on The Eternal Daughter. She recently shot with
Julio Torres on his Untitled Feature Comedy with A24 and David Fincher on The Killer
for Netflix.

The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg, 2022)

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, 2022)

Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller, 2022)

The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson, 2021)

Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)

The Souvenir: Part II (Joanna Hogg, 2021)

Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, 2019)

The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch, 2019)

The Personal History of David Copperfield (Armando Iannucci, 2019)

The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)

Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)

Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson, 2018)

Okja (Bong Joon-ho, 2017) **

War Machine (David Michôd, 2017)

Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson, 2016)

Hail, Caesar! (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2016)

A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, 2015)

Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, 2015)

The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam, 2013)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)

Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013)

Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)

Getting On (TV, 2012)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Michael Apted, 2010)

The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009) **

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008)

Burn After Reading (Ethan Cohen, Joel Cohen, 2008)

Julia (Erick Zonca, 2008)

Derek (Isaac Julien, doc, 2008) *

The Man From London (Bela Tarr, 2007)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian : Chapitre 2 – (Andrew Adamson, 2008)

Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) – 2008 Best
Supporting Actress Academy Award

Stephanie Daley (Hilary Brougher, 2006)

Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson, 2005)

Constantine (Francis Lawrence, 2005)

Thumbsucker (Mike Mills, 2005)

he Statement T(Norman Jewison, 2003)

Young Adam (David Mackenzie, 2003)

Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, 2002)

Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001)

Teknolust (Lynn Hershman, 2002)

The Deep End (Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2001)

Possible Worlds (Robert Lepage, 2000)

The Beach (Danny Boyle, 2000)

The War Zone (Tim Roth, 1999)

Love Is the Devil (John Maybury, 1998)

Conceiving Ada (Lynn Hershman, 1997)

Female Perversions (Susan Streitfeld, 1996)

Blue (Derek Jarman, 1993)

Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman, 1993)

The Open Universe (Klaus Wyborny, 1993)

Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992)

Screenplay: Man to Man (TV, 1992)

The Party: Nature Morte (Cynthia Beatt, 1991)

Edward II (Derek Jarman, 1991)

The Garden (Derek Jarman, 1990)

Your Cheatin’ Heart (TV, 1990)

War Requiem (Derek Jarman, 1989)

Play Me Something (John Berger, Tim Neat, 1989)

L’Ispirazione (Derek Jarman, short métrage, 1988)

The Last of England (Derek Jarman, 1987)

Friendship’s Death (Peter Wollen, 1987)

Aria ( – Derek Jarman, 1987)

Egomania, Island Without Hope (Christoph Schlingensief, 1986)

Caprice (short; Joanna Hogg, 1986)

Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, 1985)

* also screenwriter and co-director

** also producer

Selected Films

The Eternal Daughter

Only Lovers Left Alive

Orlando