Name: Tilda Swinton
Date of Birth: 5 November 1960 Lives 16 miles east of Inverness in Nairn, Scotland, with John Byrne and their 2 children, Xavier and Honor. Mother is Australian. Has three brothers. Daughter of Major-General Sir John Swinton, whose ancestral home has been within the family since the 9th century. Functioned as the muse and mascot of Dutch fashion designers Viktor and Rolf, who made an entire collection inspired by her (2003). Her family is one of the oldest in Scotland. Does not always play women; she has played Mozart on stage, an Elizabethan nobleman in Orlando (1992) and an androgynous angel, Gabriel, in Constantine (2005). ... The father of her children, John Byrne, is a Scottish artist and writer. While at Cambridge University, she appeared in student productions of plays such as "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Duchess of Malfi" and "The Comedy of Errors". Won the Venice Film Festival award for Edward II (1991). Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1988. Attended West Heath Girls' School, with Princess Diana as one of her classmates, and later Fettes College. Since 2004, she has been in a relationship with Sandro Kopp, a painter from New Zealand. She continues to live, platonically, with John Byrne, with whom she brings up their two children. Lived in Germany when she was a child because her father was posted there. Spent two years in South Africa and Kenya as a voluntary worker in children's schools, before studying at Cambridge. On her days off from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), she could be seen on-set, offering encouragement to her young co-stars. Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1998. Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Reached great artistic acclaim through her art installation/performance piece "The Maybe", for which she lay sleeping in a glass case on public display for a week, once at the Sepentine Gallery in London and once at the Museo Barracco in Rome. The piece is often erroneously credited to artist Cornelia Parker, whom Swinton invited to collaborate for the installation in London (1995). Gave birth to twins, a daughter named Honor Byrne and a son named Xavier Byrne, in 1997. Was declared one of the ten best dressed women in the world by Vanity Fair in 2007. Delivered the seminal State of Cinema Address in 2006 at the San Francisco International Film Festival, discussing the relationship of dreams, inarticulacy and film. Can trace her paternal ancestry back 35 generations, to the ninth century. Her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, is the former head of The Queen's Household Division and Lord-Lieutenant of Berwickshire. In her acceptance speech, she said she would give the Oscar she won for Michael Clayton (2007) to her agent Brian Swardstrom. In the top ten of the 2008 International Best-Dressed List. Funded and held her own very successful Film Festival in her small Scottish highland home-town: The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams. A purely cinephile, glamour-free community event. For eight and a half days in August 2008, she personally introduced and showed an eclectic mix of classics and rare films from around the world. The admission price was 3 pounds for adults, 2 pounds for children or a plate of home-baked cakes. Received a 90 minute tribute at the 2008 AFI (American Film Institute) Festival. Contributed vocals on four tracks of the album Battle by glam-goth-folk singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf. Performed live with Patti Smith on four nights of the 2005 London Meltdown Festival reading texts by Susan Sontag, Bertolt Brecht, William Blake and William S. Burroughs. Head of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009. Read more Tilda Swinton movies (actor)
The Man from London [No links available]
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Der Mann aus London
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