Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton

1960-11-05 London, England, UK 168 Credits

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...

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Instant Coffee

Instant Coffee

2025

as Self

Acting
The End

The End

2024

as Mother

5.1
Acting

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

The End

The End

2024

Producer

5.1
Producing

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

Impulse: Playing with reality

2024

as Narrator

Acting
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

2024

as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice)

7.5
Acting

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

The Room Next Door

2024

as Martha / Michelle

6.8
Acting

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)

January Stories (version Harinezumi)

2024

Acting

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

Chroma

2024

Acting

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

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze

2024

as Self

Acting

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

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze

2024

Director

Directing

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

8.0
Acting

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

Problemista

2024

as Elizabeth

6.8
Acting

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

The Killer

2023

as The Expert

6.6
Acting

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

All Kinds of Love

All Kinds of Love

2023

as Self

Acting

Tilda Swinton recites a poem by Claes Oldenburg.

Some Thoughts On The Common Toad

Some Thoughts On The Common Toad

2023

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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

Cannes Uncut

2023

as Self

5.8
Acting

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

Asteroid City

2023

as Dr. Hickenlooper

6.5
Acting

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

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

2022

as Self

7.5
Acting

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

The Eternal Daughter

2022

as Julie / Rosalind

6.0
Acting

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

Durmiente

2022

Acting

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

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

2022

as Wood Sprite / Death (voice)

8.1
Acting

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

Ott torony volt

2022

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing
Three Thousand Years of Longing

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

as Alithea

6.9
Acting

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

Acting

"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

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

2021

as Self

5.5
Acting

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

Goliath: Playing with Reality

2021

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

After a decade of isolation in psychiatric institutions, Jon, a paranoid schizophrenic, finds his salvation in online video games.

The French Dispatch

The French Dispatch

2021

as J.K.L. Berensen

7.0
Acting

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

The Souvenir: Part II

2021

as Rosalind

6.6
Acting

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

Memoria

2021

as Jessica Holland

6.1
Acting

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

Memoria

2021

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

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

The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode

2020

as Self

Acting

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

The Human Voice

2020

as Woman

6.8
Acting

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

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

2020

as Self (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

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

Last and First Men

2020

as Narrator (voice)

6.4
Acting

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

The Personal History of David Copperfield

2019

as Betsey Trotwood

6.4
Acting

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

Uncut Gems

Uncut Gems

2019

as Anne - Adley's Auction Manager (voice)

7.2
Acting

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

The Souvenir

2019

as Rosalind

6.1
Acting

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

The Dead Don't Die

2019

as Zelda Winston

5.4
Acting

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

Avengers: Endgame

2019

as The Ancient One

8.2
Acting

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

Suspiria

2018

as Madame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos

6.9
Acting

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

Isle of Dogs

2018

as Oracle (voice)

7.9
Acting

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

Call Me by Your Name

2017

Thanks

8.1

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

Letters from Generation Rx

2017

as Narrator (voice)

5.0
Acting

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

Okja

2017

as Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando

7.4
Acting

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

Okja

2017

Co-Producer

7.4
Producing

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

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

2017

as Self

5.7
Acting

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

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

2017

Director, Writer

5.7
Directing Writing

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

War Machine

2017

as German Politician

5.6
Acting

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

Letters from Baghdad

2017

as Gertrude Bell (voice)

6.7
Acting

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

Letters from Baghdad

2017

Executive Producer

6.7
Producing

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

async - first light

2017

6.0
Acting

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)

Acting

In 2015 reknown Cuban artist Tania Bruguera was imprisoned in Havana after advocating for freedom of expression. Shortly after her release she returne...

Paterson

Paterson

2016

Thanks

7.1

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

Doctor Strange

2016

as The Ancient One

7.4
Acting

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

Phantom of the Universe

2016

as Narrator

Acting

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!

Hail, Caesar!

2016

as Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker

5.9
Acting

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash

2015

as Marianne Lane

6.2
Acting

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'

Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

2015

as Self / Social Services

6.1
Acting

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

Trainwreck

2015

as Dianna

5.8
Acting

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

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

2015

as Self

7.8
Acting

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

Dreams Rewired

2015

as Narrator (voice)

4.8
Acting

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

The Gospel According to St Derek

2014

as Self

Acting

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

Antarctica: On the Edge

2014

as Narrator (voice)

6.4
Acting

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

Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch

2014

as Self

6.0
Acting

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

Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen

2014

as Self

5.0
Acting

Documentary on the making of the film.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

as Madame D.

8.0
Acting

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

Only Lovers Left Alive

2013

as Eve

7.2
Acting

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

The Zero Theorem

2013

as Dr. Shrink-Rom

6.1
Acting

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

Snowpiercer

2013

as Mason

6.9
Acting

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

Death for a Unicorn

2013

as Narrator (voice)

4.0
Acting

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

When Björk Met Attenborough

2013

as Narrator (voice)

7.8
Acting

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

David Bowie: Five Years

2013

as Self (archive footage)

7.5
Acting

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

One Water

2013

Acting

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)

The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

2013

7.2
Acting

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

Love Flesh

2013

as Self

6.5
Acting

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

Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

2013

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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

Radioman

2012

as Self

5.7
Acting

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

Ashes

2012

as Self

5.3
Acting

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

Moonrise Kingdom

2012

as Social Services

7.7
Acting

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

Song 1

2012

as Self

1.0
Acting

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

Here

Here

2012

Idea

2.5

A young woman's journey across the world following a set of cryptic clues.

Cinema Is Everywhere

2011

as Self

9.0
Acting

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

We Need to Talk About Kevin

2011

as Eva Khatchadourian

7.5
Acting

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

We Need to Talk About Kevin

2011

Executive Producer

7.5
Producing

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

14 Actors Acting

2010

as Self

7.0
Acting

This year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2010

as White Witch

6.4
Acting

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

Acting

"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

Climate of Change

2010

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

"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

I Am Love

2010

as Emma Recchi

6.8
Acting

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

I Am Love

2010

Producer

6.8
Producing

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

The Invisible Frame

2009

as The Cyclist

6.9
Acting

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

The Limits of Control

2009

as Blonde

6.0
Acting

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

Moments on the Set of I Am Love

2009

as Self

Acting

A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

as Elizabeth Abbott

7.6
Acting

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

Burn After Reading

2008

as Katie Cox

6.7
Acting

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

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

2008

as White Witch

6.6
Acting

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

Julia

2008

as Julia

6.7
Acting

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

Derek

Derek

2008

as Narrator (voice)

5.7
Acting

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

Derek

2008

Writer, Executive Producer

5.7
Writing Producing

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

The New Ten Commandments

2008

as Self

8.7
Acting

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

The New Ten Commandments

2008

Director

8.7
Directing

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

Cannes: All Access

2007

as Self

3.7
Acting

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

Michael Clayton

2007

as Karen Crowder

6.8
Acting

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

The Man from London

2007

as Camélia

7.2
Acting

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

Stephanie Daley

2007

as Lydie Crane

5.9
Acting

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

Stephanie Daley

2007

Executive Producer

5.9
Producing

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

Faceless

2007

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

2007

as Self

5.8
Acting

Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.

Strange Culture

Strange Culture

2007

as Hope Kurtz

4.7
Acting

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

Sleepwalkers

2007

as Violinist working as a Copy Clerk

6.7
Acting

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

Hitler's Favourite Royal

2007

as Narrator

Acting

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

Deep Water

2006

as Narrator (voice)

7.3
Acting

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

Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes

2006

as Self

Acting
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2005

as White Witch

7.1
Acting

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

The Somme

2005

as Narrator (voice)

5.7
Acting

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

Thumbsucker

2005

as Audrey Cobb

6.2
Acting

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

Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker

2005

Co-Executive Producer

6.2
Producing

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

Broken Flowers

2005

as Penny

6.9
Acting

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

Constantine

2005

as Gabriel

7.1
Acting

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

The Statement

2003

as Annemarie Livi

5.6
Acting

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

Young Adam

2003

as Ella Gault

5.8
Acting

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.

Adaptation.

2002

as Valerie Thomas

7.4
Acting

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

Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory

2002

as Self

Acting

At the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, Tilda Swinton talks to director Luca Guadagnino about cinema, loneliness and love.

Teknolust

Teknolust

2002

as Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive

4.3
Acting

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

Vanilla Sky

2001

as Rebecca Dearborn

6.8
Acting

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

The Deep End

2001

as Margaret Hall

6.2
Acting

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

The Dilapidated Dwelling

2000

as Narrator (voice)

4.0
Acting

Documentary with fictional elements exploring issues around housing in the United Kingdom.

Possible Worlds

Possible Worlds

2000

as Joyce

6.4
Acting

The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.

The Beach

The Beach

2000

as Sal

6.5
Acting

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

The Protagonists

1999

as Actress

5.4
Acting

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

The War Zone

1999

as Mum

6.8
Acting

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

Conceiving Ada

Conceiving Ada

1999

as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace

4.5
Acting

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

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

1998

as Muriel Belcher

6.0
Acting

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

Female Perversions

1997

as Evelyn Stephens

5.0
Acting

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

Orbital: The Box

1996

as Traveller

7.7
Acting

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

Death of a World Star

1994

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

10.0
Acting

A mockumentary directed by Christoph Schlingensief.

Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

1994

1.0
Acting

Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda ...

Glitterbug

Glitterbug

1994

as Self

6.2
Acting

A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.

Visions of Heaven and Hell

Visions of Heaven and Hell

1994

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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

The Open Universe

1993

as Carla

Acting

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

Blue

1993

as (voice)

7.0
Acting

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

Wittgenstein

1993

as Lady Ottoline Morrell

6.4
Acting

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

Orlando

Orlando

1992

as Orlando

6.9
Acting

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

Acting

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

Man to Man

1992

as Ella / Max Gerike

Acting

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

Edward II

1991

as Isabella

6.2
Acting

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

The Party: Nature Morte

1991

as Queenie

Acting

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.

Derek Jarman: A Portrait

Derek Jarman: A Portrait

1991

as Self

Acting

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

Your Cheatin' Heart

1990

6.0
Acting

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

The Garden

1990

as Madonna/Voice Overs

5.6
Acting

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

Play Me Something

1989

as Hairdresser

5.0
Acting

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

War Requiem

1989

as The Nurse

6.4
Acting

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

Volcano Saga

1989

as Gudrun

Acting

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

A Call to Arms

1989

Acting

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

Cycling the Frame

1988

as The Cyclist

6.9
Acting

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

Degrees of Blindness

1988

Acting

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

The Last of England

The Last of England

1987

as The Maid

6.0
Acting

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

Friendship's Death

1987

as Friendship

6.8
Acting

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

Aria

1987

as Young Girl

5.6
Acting

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

Depuis le Jour

1987

Acting

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

Egomania: Island Without Hope

1987

as Sally

5.2
Acting

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

Caravaggio

1986

as Lena

6.1
Acting

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

Caprice

Caprice

1986

as Lucky

6.1
Acting

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

The Sluggard

1986

as The Sluggard

Acting

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

Acting

Described as being based on Weerasethakul's dreams.

The Ballad of a Small Player

The Ballad of a Small Player

N/A

Acting

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

Death in Her Hands

N/A

as Vesta Gul

Acting

An elderly widow's life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods.

Hamlet

Hamlet

N/A

as Ophelia

Acting

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