Welcome to The Tilda Swinton Picture Sites! This site truly contains only high quality scans, so you can stop searching for Tilda Swinton pictures from now on! For those new to the site, my philosophy on exactly what constitutes 'high quality' is found here. Be sure to check out all three picture galleries to your left.

The iconoclastic gifts of the visually striking and enigmatic actress Tilda Swinton, who was born on November 5th, 1960, in London, have been appreciated by a more international audience of late. Born into a patrician Scottish military family, she was educated in an English boarding school that also housed then-known Lady Diana Spencer. Tilda subsequently studied at Cambridge University, and graduated in 1983 with a degree in Social and Political Science/English Literature. She switched to theatre, however, and became a student of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A decided rebel when it came to the arts, she left abruptly after a year as her approach shifted dramatically. With a taste for the unique and bizarre, she found some genuinely interesting gender-bending roles come her way, such as the composer Mozart in Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri," and as a working class woman impersonating her dead husband during World War II, in Karges' "Man to Man." Tilda would commit the latter role to film in 1991. In 1985 the pale-skinned, carrot-topped actress began a professional association with director/mentor Derek Jarman. This quirky alliance would produce such stark turns in Caravaggio (1986), Aria (1987), The Last of England (1988), The Garden (1990/I) Edward II (1991), and Wittgenstein (1993), while feeding this voracity for playing the unique and unusual. Tilda provided a voice in his final film, an inventive documentary entitled Blue (1993/I), which used only a blue screen and interweaving vocal soundtrack to drive home its themes of dying and death. Jarman succumbed to complications from AIDS shortly after its completion. His untimely demise left a devastating void in Tilda's life for quite some time. Ironically, her most notable film role may come from a non-Jarman film. For the title role in the Sally Potter-directed stunner Orlando (1992), her nobleman character actually lives for 400 years while changing sex from man to woman. Over the years she has preferred to sacrifice celebrity for art, opening herself to experimental projects with new and untried directors and mediums. Consistently off-centered roles in Female Perversions (1996), Conceiving Ada (1997), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998), and Possible Worlds (2000) have only added to her mystique. Hollywood too has picked up on this notoriety, but not nearly as well. With the exception of the thriller The Deep End (2001), which earned her a number of critic's awards, such mainstream U.S. pictures as The Beach (2000) with Leonardo DiCaprio, Vanilla Sky (2001) starring Tom Cruise and the Keanu Reeves horror epic Constantine (2005) have tended to undermine her seemingly boundless abilities.

Filmography:
Nico (2006) (announced) .... Nico
Michael Clayton (2006) (pre-production)
The Man from London (2005) (filming)
... aka A Londoni férfi (Hungary)
... aka Homme de Londres, L' (France)

Stephanie Daley (2006) .... Lydie Crane
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) .... White Witch
The Somme (2005) (TV) .... Narrator
Broken Flowers (2005) .... Penny
... aka Broken Flowers (USA)
Constantine (2005/II) (VG) (voice) .... Gabriel
Constantine (2005) .... Gabriel
Thumbsucker (2005) .... Audrey Cobb
The Statement (2003) .... Annemarie Livi
Young Adam (2003) .... Ella Gault
Adaptation. (2002) .... Valerie Thomas
Teknolust (2002) .... Rosetta/Ruby/Marinne/Olive
Vanilla Sky (2001) .... Rebecca Dearborn
The Deep End (2001) .... Margaret Hall
Possible Worlds (2000) .... Joyce
... aka Mondes possibles (Canada: French title)
The Beach (2000) .... Sal

The War Zone (1999) .... Mum
... aka Tim Roth's The War Zone (USA: poster title)
... aka Zona di guerra (Italy)
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) .... Muriel Belcher
... aka Love Is the Devil (France) (UK: short title)
... aka Ai no akuma (Japan)
... aka Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (USA)
Conceiving Ada (1997) .... Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
... aka Leidenschaftliche Berechnung (Germany)
Female Perversions (1996) .... Eve Stephens
... aka Phantasien einer Frau (Germany)
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (1994)
Visions of Heaven and Hell (1994) (TV) .... Narrator
Blue (1993/I) (voice)
Offene Universum, Das (1993) (TV) .... Carla
Wittgenstein (1993) .... Lady Ottoline Morrell
"Shakespeare: The Animated Tales" (1992) (mini) TV Series (voice) .... Ophelia
Orlando (1992) .... Orlando
Man to Man (1992) .... Ella/Max Gericke
Edward II (1991) .... Isabella
The Party: Nature Morte (1991) .... Queenie
... aka Party
"Your Cheatin' Heart" (1990) TV Series .... Cissie Crouch
The Garden (1990/I) .... Madonna

Play Me Something (1989) (TV) .... Hairdresser
War Requiem (1989) .... Nurse
The Last of England (1988)
Andere Ende der Welt, Das (1988)
Degrees of Blindness (1988)
Ispirazione, L' (1988)
Aria (1987) .... Young Girl (segment "Depuis le jour")
Friendship's Death (1987) .... Friendship
Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung (1986) .... Sally
"Zastrozzi: A Romance" (1986) (mini) TV Series .... Julia
Caravaggio (1986) .... Lena

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Tilda at Yahoo movies

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