Biography
Tilda Swinton (born Katherine Matilda Swinton; 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), fol...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Instant Coffee
2025
as Self

The End
2024
as Mother
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they ...

The End
2024
Producer
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they ...

Impulse: Playing with reality
2024
as Narrator

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024
as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice)
One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a highly inspirational figure, whose work was deeply im...

The Room Next Door
2024
as Martha / Michelle
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist ...

January Stories (version Harinezumi)
2024
This film featuring Tilda Swinton was shot early 2024, in a abandoned camp of the Kew Thab Yang Forest Preserve in Chiang Rai. The artist made two ver...

Chroma
2024
On the afternoon of September 22nd, 2023, sunny, in the Summer Palace, in the glowing, colorful Kunming Lake Tilda Swinton and I were on a boat talkin...

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
2024
as Self
A collection of thoughts and journeys. A dialogue between different forms of knowledge. A film about dancing, working, and life itself. The Hexagonal ...

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
2024
Director
A collection of thoughts and journeys. A dialogue between different forms of knowledge. A film about dancing, working, and life itself. The Hexagonal ...
Transparent
2024
Marking the 30th anniversary of Derek Jarman's passing, close friend and collaborator Tilda Swinton leads a poetic tribute to the late artist and film...

Problemista
2024
as Elizabeth
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs ...

The Killer
2023
as The Expert
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

All Kinds of Love
2023
as Self
Tilda Swinton recites a poem by Claes Oldenburg.

Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
2023
as Narrator (voice)
A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation. Based on the essay by George Orwell and narrated...

Cannes Uncut
2023
as Self
Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that have been part of the Cannes Film Festival over ei...

Asteroid City
2023
as Dr. Hickenlooper
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
as Self
With mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special captures the artistry of a unique tale years in the maki...

The Eternal Daughter
2022
as Julie / Rosalind
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.

Durmiente
2022
Durmiente shows Tilda Swinton, the lead actress of Memoria, sleeping in a bedroom as the shadows grow longer.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
as Wood Sprite / Death (voice)
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

Ott torony volt
2022
Executive Producer

Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022
as Alithea
A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, ...
Sleep Song
2022
"A ghost band only plays at night and in dreams. Tilda and Sam are carried away by their song as they practice birth and death in the realm of no time...

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021
as Self
Joining Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas on his annual pilgrimage to the Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Mark Cousins gives an intimate glimpse in...

Goliath: Playing with Reality
2021
as Narrator (voice)
After a decade of isolation in psychiatric institutions, Jon, a paranoid schizophrenic, finds his salvation in online video games.

The French Dispatch
2021
as J.K.L. Berensen
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student ri...

The Souvenir: Part II
2021
as Rosalind
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in ma...

Memoria
2021
as Jessica Holland
One morning, Jessica Holland, a Scottish orchid farmer visiting her sister in Bogotá, is woken by a loud ‘bang’. This haunting sound dispels her sleep...

Memoria
2021
Executive Producer
One morning, Jessica Holland, a Scottish orchid farmer visiting her sister in Bogotá, is woken by a loud ‘bang’. This haunting sound dispels her sleep...

The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
2020
as Self
A recorded Q&A hosted by Mark Kermode, where Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swintondiscuss the inspirations they drew on for the film, how THE HUMAN VOICE ...

The Human Voice
2020
as Woman
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't...

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work ...

Last and First Men
2020
as Narrator (voice)
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is bot...

The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019
as Betsey Trotwood
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chron...

Uncut Gems
2019
as Anne - Adley's Auction Manager (voice)
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of...

The Souvenir
2019
as Rosalind
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

The Dead Don't Die
2019
as Zelda Winston
In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert mus...

Avengers: Endgame
2019
as The Ancient One
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaini...

Suspiria
2018
as Madame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grievi...

Isle of Dogs
2018
as Oracle (voice)
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must ...

Call Me by Your Name
2017
Thanks
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's...

Letters from Generation Rx
2017
as Narrator (voice)
As a result of the 2008 documentary"Generation Rx," thousands of people wrote director Kevin P. Miller to share their experiences on psychiatric drugs...

Okja
2017
as Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

Okja
2017
Co-Producer
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
2017
as Self
The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox four-part documentary that visits him at his Alpine ...

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
2017
Director, Writer
The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox four-part documentary that visits him at his Alpine ...

War Machine
2017
as German Politician
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true stor...

Letters from Baghdad
2017
as Gertrude Bell (voice)
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

Letters from Baghdad
2017
Executive Producer
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

async - first light
2017
A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film are all his ...
Tania Libre
2017
as Narrator (voice)
In 2015 reknown Cuban artist Tania Bruguera was imprisoned in Havana after advocating for freedom of expression. Shortly after her release she returne...

Paterson
2016
Thanks
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famo...

Doctor Strange
2016
as The Ancient One
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to de...

Phantom of the Universe
2016
as Narrator
From the journey of protons racing through the world’s largest particle collider in Europe to up-close views of the Big Bang and emergent cosmos, Phan...

Hail, Caesar!
2016
as Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

A Bigger Splash
2015
as Marianne Lane
An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daugh...

Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
2015
as Self / Social Services
Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of "Mo...

Trainwreck
2015
as Dianna
Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
as Self
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and...

Dreams Rewired
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Tracing anxieties about technology back to the 1880s, DREAMS REWIRED combines clips from nearly 200 films and newsreels with an insightful commentary ...

The Gospel According to St Derek
2014
as Self
Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bears witness to Derek Jarman’s unique approach to lo...

Antarctica: On the Edge
2014
as Narrator (voice)
Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, the most forbidding continent on Planet Earth. It is a huge land covered with ice as thick as three...

Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2014
as Self
A portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive.

Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014
as Self
Documentary on the making of the film.

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Madame D.
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becom...

Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
as Eve
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by t...

The Zero Theorem
2013
as Dr. Shrink-Rom
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they s...

Snowpiercer
2013
as Mason
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that tr...

Death for a Unicorn
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Little Billy’s life is tormented by his scheming aunt who drags him daily to the cemetery and forces him to clean his uncle’s headstone. There Billy m...

When Björk Met Attenborough
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Award-winning musician Björk and legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough have admired each other's work for years but this is the ...

David Bowie: Five Years
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved: from Ziggy Stardust to the Soul Star of Young Ameri...

One Water
2013
Tilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film festival in the Maldives where she invited the artist...

The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
2013
The official music video for "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" by David Bowie, it premiered on 25 February 2013. It stars Bowie and English actress Tilda...

Love Flesh
2013
as Self
During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a hote...

Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Narrated by Tilda Swinton and produced by the National Gallery of Art, this documentary film explores Serge Diaghilev's Russian roots, his genius for ...

Radioman
2012
as Self
The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film i...

Ashes
2012
as Self
In collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website, Weerasethakul was invited to make a work to launch the new Lo...

Moonrise Kingdom
2012
as Social Services
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a...

Song 1
2012
as Self
An installation commissioned to be projected on the outer ring of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

Here
2012
Idea
A young woman's journey across the world following a set of cryptic clues.
Cinema Is Everywhere
2011
as Self
A documentary feature film that ties four narratives - from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia - together with countless insights from venerable film...

We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011
as Eva Khatchadourian
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a todd...

We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011
Executive Producer
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a todd...

14 Actors Acting
2010
as Self
This year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010
as White Witch
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantasti...
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010
as Self
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the set of his movie "The Limits of Control" (starrin...

Climate of Change
2010
as Narrator (voice)
"We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old member of a youth environmental defense group in India...

I Am Love
2010
as Emma Recchi
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels ...

I Am Love
2010
Producer
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels ...

The Invisible Frame
2009
as The Cyclist
In 1988 Cynthia Beatt and the young Tilda Swinton embarked on a filmic journey along the Berlin Wall into little-known territory. The film CYCLING THE...

The Limits of Control
2009
as Blonde
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...

Moments on the Set of I Am Love
2009
as Self
A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
as Elizabeth Abbott
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years...

Burn After Reading
2008
as Katie Cox
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money f...

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008
as White Witch
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a y...

Julia
2008
as Julia
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.

Derek
2008
as Narrator (voice)
Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The filmmaker...

Derek
2008
Writer, Executive Producer
Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The filmmaker...

The New Ten Commandments
2008
as Self
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter d...

The New Ten Commandments
2008
Director
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter d...

Cannes: All Access
2007
as Self
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red ...

Michael Clayton
2007
as Karen Crowder
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty ...

The Man from London
2007
as Camélia
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.

Stephanie Daley
2007
as Lydie Crane
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon aft...

Stephanie Daley
2007
Executive Producer
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon aft...

Faceless
2007
as Narrator (voice)
In an eerily familiar city, a calendar reform has dispensed with the past and the future, leaving citizens faceless, without memory or anticipation. U...

Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
as Self
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.

Strange Culture
2007
as Hope Kurtz
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members d...

Sleepwalkers
2007
as Violinist working as a Copy Clerk
A bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make their way through an evening in New York City. A collectio...

Hitler's Favourite Royal
2007
as Narrator
Prince Charles Edward was Queen Victoria's youngest grandchild. Brought up at Claremont House and educated at Eton until he was 14, Charles Edward was...

Deep Water
2006
as Narrator (voice)
DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ev...

Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes
2006
as Self

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
as White Witch
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kin...

The Somme
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. Told through...

Thumbsucker
2005
as Audrey Cobb
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using...

Thumbsucker
2005
Co-Executive Producer
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using...

Broken Flowers
2005
as Penny
As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may b...

Constantine
2005
as Gabriel
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their in...

The Statement
2003
as Annemarie Livi
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effective...

Young Adam
2003
as Ella Gault
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river ...

Adaptation.
2002
as Valerie Thomas
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting amb...

Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
2002
as Self
At the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, Tilda Swinton talks to director Luca Guadagnino about cinema, loneliness and love.

Teknolust
2002
as Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to bre...

Vanilla Sky
2001
as Rebecca Dearborn
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribl...

The Deep End
2001
as Margaret Hall
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult ...

The Dilapidated Dwelling
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary with fictional elements exploring issues around housing in the United Kingdom.

Possible Worlds
2000
as Joyce
The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.

The Beach
2000
as Sal
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradis...

The Protagonists
1999
as Actress
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.

The War Zone
1999
as Mum
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

Conceiving Ada
1999
as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the worl...

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
as Muriel Belcher
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, ...

Female Perversions
1997
as Evelyn Stephens
Eve Stephens, a beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney, is up for appointment as a judge. But below her veneer of self-confidence lies a darker side...

Orbital: The Box
1996
as Traveller
An otherworldly traveller phases into existence and experiences the madness of modern urban life in this music video for Orbital’s The Box. The travel...

Death of a World Star
1994
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A mockumentary directed by Christoph Schlingensief.

Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1994
Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda ...

Glitterbug
1994
as Self
A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.

Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994
as Narrator (voice)
Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning three-part documentary series which examined soci...

The Open Universe
1993
as Carla
The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he is abducted into the South Pacific. There he kills ...

Blue
1993
as (voice)
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarm...

Wittgenstein
1993
as Lady Ottoline Morrell
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose p...

Orlando
1992
as Orlando
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to sat...
Hamlet
1992
as Ophelia
Animated short adaptation of Hamlet featuring painted cels on glass. Originally broadcast as part of the Shakespeare: The Animated Tales series on BBC...

Man to Man
1992
as Ella / Max Gerike
Shortly before the WW II, Ella Gericke takes on the identity of her husband Max after his death to work instead of him in the factory. She continues t...

Edward II
1991
as Isabella
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobil...

The Party: Nature Morte
1991
as Queenie
The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.

Derek Jarman: A Portrait
1991
as Self
A BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden, featuring interviews with Jarman, his collaborators and frie...

Your Cheatin' Heart
1990
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian...

The Garden
1990
as Madonna/Voice Overs
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a cro...

Play Me Something
1989
as Hairdresser
A group of individuals are stranded at a small island airport when the flight from the mainland is delayed. At that moment, a stranger appears and beg...

War Requiem
1989
as The Nurse
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying images...

Volcano Saga
1989
as Gudrun
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman ...

A Call to Arms
1989
A woman dressed in armour sleeps on the floor of a dark, sunlit room. As she sleeps dreams and memoires unravel in her head. In the final light of day...

Cycling the Frame
1988
as The Cyclist
In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate - accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beat...

Degrees of Blindness
1988
Inspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision.

The Last of England
1987
as The Maid
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Friendship's Death
1987
as Friendship
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan dur...

Aria
1987
as Young Girl
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each s...

Depuis le Jour
1987
Derek Jarman's interpretation of the aria 'Depuis le jour' from the final act of Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise (1900) features Aimée Delamain as ...

Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
as Sally
Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the distan...

Caravaggio
1986
as Lena
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous pai...

Caprice
1986
as Lucky
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Til...

The Sluggard
1986
as The Sluggard
A young woman lazes about while those around her try to maintain order. Produced in 1986 and released on the 1988 VHS Fat of the Land Selected British...
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
N/A
Described as being based on Weerasethakul's dreams.

The Ballad of a Small Player
N/A
A high-stakes gambler decides to lay low in Macau after his past and debts catch up with him. Along the way he encounters a kindred spirit who might j...

Death in Her Hands
N/A
as Vesta Gul
An elderly widow's life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods.

Hamlet
N/A
as Ophelia
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.