Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton was awarded The Richard Harris Award at the 2005 British Independent Film Awards. She also won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for her performance in Tony Gilroy’s MICHAEL CLAYTON along side George Clooney. Ms. Swinton had earlier been a Golden Globe Award nominee for David Siegel and Scott McGehee’s THE DEEP END, which also brought her an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
A native of Scotland, Ms. Swinton started making films with the English director Derek Jarman in 1985, with CARAVAGGIO. They made several more films together, including THE LAST OF ENGLAND, THE GARDEN, WAR REQUIEM, EDWARD (for which she was named Best Actress at the 1991 Venice International Film Festival), and WITTGENSTEIN, before Mr. Jarman’s death in 1994.
She gained wider international recognition in 1992 with her portrayal of ORLANDO, under the direction of Sally Potter. Since then, her films have included Lynn Hershman-Leeson, CONCEIVING ADA AND TEKNOLUST (in four roles); Susan Streitfeld’s FEMALE PERVERSIONS; John Maybury’s LOVE IS THE DEVIL; Robert Lepage’s POSSIBLE WORLDS; Danny Boyle’s THE BEACH; Cameron Crowe’s VANILLA SKY; Spike Jonze’s Academy Award-winning ADAPTATION; David Mackenzie’s YOUNG ADAM (for which she was awarded Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film in 2003); Mike Mills’ THUMBSUCKER and Francis Lawrence’s CONSTANTINE; Béla Tarr’s THE MAN FROM LONDON; Andrew Adamson’s two blockbuster THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA tales; Erick Zonca’s JULIA; the Cohen Brothers’ BURN AFTER READING; David Fincher’s THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON; Jim Jarmusch’s THE LIMITS OF CONTROL and BROKEN FLOWERS and Luca Guadagnino’s IO SON AMORE, a love story shot entirely in Italian and Russian.
In 2008 Ms. Swinton launched the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams film festival in her hometown of Nairn, Scotland, and is taking it to Beixing in March 2009.