November 5, 1960 In London in the family of sir John Swinton, 7th Lord Kimmerey, and lady Judith Balfour Killen, originally from Australia, daughter.
Childhood Tilde took place in Germany, where the rank of major-General of the British armed forces served her father.
1970 The girl was sent to a private boarding school in Kent. Class mates Tilde were daughters of the British aristocracy, including - lady Diana Spencer, the future Princess of Wales.
Tilda was doing very well, getting high scores in core subjects and regularly becoming the winner of the school competition for the run. However, when she was going to send it to the championship of the entire County, she pretended to be stretched ligaments, and thus avoided the trip, as preferred, so that its impetus was the feeling of victory, not the prizes. While still at school, Tilde beginning to show interest in the theater, taking part in student productions. In addition she sang in the school Madrigal choir.
Next Swinton continued his education in another prestigious academic institution, College Fetts in Scotland's capital city Edinburgh, among the graduates of which are, among others, Prime Minister Tony Blair, the theorist of advertising David Ogilvy and the ancestor of the actress Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, whose research formed the basis for the invention of television. After College Swinton volunteer went to Africa and stayed there for two years, working in schools in Kenya and South Africa. In the same period, from a young age feeling left ideas, she joined the Communist party of great Britain.
1980 Swinton enrolled at new Hall women's College at Cambridge University, where her subjects were science, sociology and English literature. There she played on the stage of the famous student of the theater "Cambridge actors in productions of "the Duchess of Malfi" on the play by John Webster, "the Comedy of errors" and "a Midsummer night's Dream" by Shakespeare.
1983 After studying in new-Lobby 3 years, Swinton joined the troupe of the Royal society of Shakespeare, the famous theatre in Stratford, whose members were coming celebrity Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh, Daniel day-Lewis, Juliet Stevenson, Harriet Walter and Fiona Shaw. However, there Swinton failed to fully demonstrate their abilities.
1984 The actress was involved in four pieces, but in minor roles appeared in the role of Juliet in "Measure for measure" and plebani in "Julius Caesar" (both plays were staged in Shakespeare's plays), nuns in "the Devils" and the soldier's mother in the play "Mother Courage and her children" on the eponymous play by Bertolt Brecht with Judi Dench and Zoe Wanamaker starring.
Frustrated Swinton went in search of more provocative theatrical forms in Edinburgh.
1985 She made her debut on the stage of the Traverse theatre in a production of the "White rose", in which also it was attended by only two actors. In this performance the contribution of women in opposition to the Nazis in Stalingrad Swinton played the role of the engineer Irina Pasportimni. At the same time Swinton became acquainted with John Birnam, old Scottish artist and playwright, he designed the scenery for the production - whom she married four years later.
1986 Tilde debuted on television in the movie "Zastrozzi", modern interpretatsii Gothic novel Shelley and one of the most expensive projects of the British TV station Channel 4. In the same year the debut of the actress in the movie paired with Udo Cyrus she starred in the film "Egomania: island without hope" directed by Christoph Schlingensief, known for its radical approach to art.
This was followed by the picture "Caravaggio" is a biographical fantasy of the British film avant-garde Derek jarmen on the topic of the life and work of the great Italian painter Michelangelo da Caravaggio. In this film, where the Director gives the relationship between the artist and his model Ranuchcho (in his role, starred Sean Bean) homosexual shade, Swinton played the role of Lena - mistress Ranuchcho and model Caravaggio. Familiarity with Carmena was an important step in the formation of a creative way Actresses. His ideas, it differs from the generally accepted views on life and art coincided with her own, and because the Director and the actress easily find a common language. Just Swinton appeared in nine projects Carmena.
In the same year, the actress has started shooting in the German film "Open universe" - the history of a young Dane Roberts, who kills his father and then savecomplete with her own mother, a role which he performed Swinton. The Director of this experimental Thriller, presented to the audience only in 1993, became Klaus Election, one of the operators paintings by Werner Herzog "the Mystery of Kaspar Hauser".
1987 Swinton appeared in the film "Aria" - the movie-compilation of several ten-minute episodes, which were shot by different authors on the subject of Opera. Worked on the film Robert Altman, Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Russell and other Directors including Carmen, in the Novella, which is called Depuis le jour and participated actress. In the same year she starred in the science fiction film "the Death of Friendship." The story takes place in the middle East during the conflict in Palestine and Jordan, 1970. Journalist Sullivan saves the heroine Swinton from the persecution of the militants of the PLO, and then learns that she is an Android by the name of Friendship, many years ago sent by aliens on a mission of peace on Earth.
1987 Swinton took part in three theatrical productions - "the Guide", "Event" on the play by Bertolt Brecht and "man". In the last play based on a true story, she appeared in the role of a woman who, in order to survive in Nazi Germany, forced to hide under the name of her deceased husband.
1988 After the short film "the Degree of blindness", created by assistant Carmena under the impression poems of William Blake, Swinton starred in jarmana in a two-minute video "Inspiration" avant-garde homoerotica modern Italian Opera composer Silvano Bussotti.
This was followed by another work of Carmina in the movie "All that remained of England". This apocalyptic drama, shot on vosjmikilometrovom film Super 8 was a pretty chaotic mixing a variety of subjects - from the Royal wedding to the Falklands conflict, is United by a common motive reflections on the fate of the nation under Margaret Thatcher. Swinton appeared in the supernatural scene-parody to the wedding of Prince Charles and lady Diana Spencer, where, yielding to the impulse of improvisation, pulled her wedding dress.
At the Berlin film festival in 1988 Swinton received its first kininaru - special prize "Teddy", awarded for films about sexual minorities.
1989 It was soon followed by another work of Carmina. It was shot in record time anti-war drama "war Requiem", the visual range to the oratorios of British composer Benjamin Britten and the poems of Wilfrid Owen is a British poet, who died just a week before the end of the First world war. In this project Swinton played the role of nurses. The image of her heroine symbolized compassion and helplessness in the face of war. In addition to her film participated Nathaniel Parker, Sean Bean, Laurence Olivier, for which the role of the Old soldier out of the medals in a wheelchair, was the last appearance on the screen (in July 1989 he died at the age of eighty-two years). Critics praised the game cast ensemble in this poignant and able to shock the film, revealing a vivid anti-war statement.
In the same year, the actress took part in the television movie "Give me something" by story of the winner of the Booker prize John Burger. The writer himself has played the lead role, playing a mysterious stranger, enjoying the conversation of a group of passengers (among whom was the heroine Swinton) at the airport Barra, deserted island in the archipelago of the Outer Hebrides.
1989 The actress completed her theatrical career, finally taking part in theatrical productions of Long day's journey around the world" and "Mozart and Salieri" by the tragedy of Pushkin. In the last performance she first appeared in the form of men - the great Mozart.
1990 Tilde appeared as a waitress, Kissy Crouch in the television series "Thy false heart" the script by John Byrne. In the same year, Tilda and John were married.
Swinton appeared again at Carmina in bold provocative drama "Garden". The Director died from AIDS, which he has been ill for four years, and this fatal disease has left a heavy imprint on his work and this picture in particular. The shooting took place in a makeshift garden, covered with gravel, at the house of Carmina in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant in Dungeness, where the Director moved shortly after he was diagnosed with the disease. There, in this strange space amid the vague outlines of a power plant, was going almost devoid of dialogue paintings. It was an alternation of scenes on the theme of the New Testament and was tightly tied to the Church and society towards homosexuality. The distortion of religious themes in the film bordered on blasphemy - the personification of the Christ was a homosexual couple, and Swinton appeared in the image of the virgin Mary, who is hiding from the persecution of reporters, thereby portraying the flight into Egypt.
1991 Appearing in the German film "Party: still life", the Director who was her friend Cynthia Beatt, Swinton started filming in the new project of Carmina - drama "Edward II" on the play of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. The plot of the film was built on the love story of the king of England Edward II and his favorite Pierre Gaveston. Swinton played the haughty Queen Isabella, who, being rejected by her husband, with the support of the court and the Church forced the king to sign a decree of exile favorite.
For a brilliant embodiment of the image of Isabella Swinton received the award at the Venice film festival best actress 1991.
1992 Next job was actress role of the victim of the concentration camps Ella Guericke in the drama "Man to man", the film adaptation of the eponymous play, in which Swinton played five years ago. Circumstances forced her heroine to life under the name of her deceased husband max - she wore men's clothing, ink teeth and enclose in pants rabbit leg, to make this tragic masquerade plausible. The Director of the tape were made by John Maybery, costume gemanovskoe "Anniversary".
1992 This year became a turning point in the career of an actress - she played the main role in the film, Sally Potter's "Orlando" by the famous novel-biography of Virginia Woolf, and this picture was probably the most famous movie with her participation. The film is divided into six parts - Death, Love, Poetry, Politics, Society, and Sex, and spanning a period of 350 years. The first half of this period, Orlando is home to a man and the second woman.
The first part of the history of Orlando begins in the era of Queen Elizabeth I, which favors a pretty sixteen-year-old boy and make him his favorite. On her deathbed she granted him considerable status, and in return requests that do not fade and stay young forever. The second part describes the history of the first strong feelings Orlando - the love of a daughter of the Russian Ambassador Sasha, whom he met, skating on a frozen Thames during the Great frost 1607. But he betrays feelings Orlando, and disillusioned with the women, he removed to his estate, where sleeps soundly sleep for a whole week. Waking up, Orlando finds a new hobby - poetry, and writes from London famous poet, to talk with him about art, but he also does not justify his expectations.
Parted with another illusion, Orlando is sent from the Embassy in Constantinople - and so begins the fourth part of the film. He makes a political career, but once fell asleep wakes up being the other sex. Now a woman, Orlando returns to England, where during her absence came the age of Enlightenment. She enters high society, visiting salons, but satiated and his doing this. Having dealt with by society, Orlando meets Marmaduke Shelmerdine (his part is played by Billy Zane), falls in love with him and discovers sex. Already in the beginning of XX century Orlando becomes a mother - and it becomes a final picture.
The game actress is stunning, equally convincing as the shape of a woman, and men received rave reviews. At the International film festival in Seattle Swinton received the award of best actress of the year, and the painting itself was recognized as the best film at the Venice film festival and received several other prestigious awards.
1993 Voicing Ophelia in the movie "hamlet", Swinton returned to Carmenu and took part in two of his films.
The first was "Wittgenstein", another biographical fantasy of jarmana, this time about the life of a famous philosopher of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Swinton appeared in the role of lady Ottolin Morrell, mistress of Bertrand Russell, friend and mentor Wittgenstein during his studies at Cambridge, where he began to form the idea of the future philosopher and where he first became aware of his homosexuality.
The second film was completely devoid of visual range suicide tape Carmina "Blue" - behind the scenes against the blue of the plan sounded just vote Swinton, the other two actors and the Director himself, telling about his last days.
February 19, 1994 Garmin died. Deeply troubled by the loss of a friend, Swinton has ceased to act (in 1994, she appeared on the set only once - in the experimental film "Memories fleeting: true stories visual lies"). She was fond of racing and spent a lot of time placing bets at the racetrack.
1995 Swinton took part in the exhibition of the artist-avangardistki Cornelia Parker, a week turned into a living exhibit �- she spent eight hours a day, lying like a Sleeping Beauty, with eyes closed in a glass box (see photo).
1996 After the actress visited the exhibition in Rome and starred in the video clip techno group Orbital, she made her return to film in the drama "Female perversion" on the same feminist treatise Louise Kaplan. As before Swinton perfectly conveyed the nature of its heroine - a successful lawyer Yves Stephens, hiding under the mask of external prosperity dark world of his sexuality, saturated forbidden erotic fantasies. "Female perversion" was included in the competition program of the festival of independent film in the Sundance.
1997 Swinton starred in the science fiction film Lynn Hershman Leeson "Conceiving Hell" - story about a woman who, using cyberspace as a time machine, he finds a way to communicate with a long-deceased daughter of Lord Byron - the heroine Swinton Ada, a famous mathematician of the nineteenth century. In the same year, the actress became a mother, having given birth to twins Xavier and honor, and then, wanting to spend more time with the family, again reduced participation in projects to low and moved with her husband and children from Chelsea to the North-East of Scotland.
1998 Following the emergence of the actress on the screen in the biographical film her longtime friend John Maybery "Love is the devil: a portrait of Francis bacon", based on the history of relations between the famous expressionist painter Francis bacon and his lover George Dyer. In this film, Swinton was almost unrecognizable in the role of Muriel Belcher, owner of the London pub Colony Club, a frequenter of which was bacon.
1999 The emergence of the actress in the directorial debut of Tim Roth is a psychological Thriller of the year "war Zone" based on the eponymous work of Alexander Stewart, the film about a monstrous relationships between members of one English family. Swinton played the role of mother, who learned from her son that her husband entered into an incestuous relationship with their daughter.
2000 Swinton appeared in the adventure Thriller from Danny Boyle's "the Beach" with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. In this film about a young American Richard, falling on a secluded island, the actress played the role of Sal - women, who heads the municipality voluntarily retired from the civilization of the islanders.
Later in the same year was followed by work in the mystical ribbon renowned canadian Director Robert Lepage "Possible worlds". The film begins with a mysterious crime - police discovers the corpse of a George Barber, from whose skull extracted brains. However, George is not dead, he continues to live in multiple worlds, each of which meets in various embodiments heroine Swinton, a woman named Joyce. In fact, the actress played four independent role, and each of them has performed brilliantly.
After "the Beach", filmed on the money film company 20th Century Fox, Swinton were invited to a Hollywood projects, and if the scripts had made some impression on her, the actress took these proposals.
2001 The first Hollywood picture Swinton was the film Ends in water" - mystical Thriller based on the novel by Elizabeth holding.
The film tells the story of the lady Margaret Hall, who along with his three sons live on the shore of lake Tahoe. Margaret concerned with homosexual tendencies eldest son, but the real challenge comes when she finds around the house the corpse of his lover. Knowing that the offense could make the son, Margaret hides the corpse in the lake, but someone will know about this act and begins to blackmail her.
For the role of Margaret Swinton was nominated for several prestigious awards (including the Golden globe and was eventually awarded the prizes of the Society of film critics of the Boston society of film critics Las Vegas as the best actress. In the same year, she played a cameo role in the Thriller Cameron Crowe's "Vanilla sky", and a year later another minor role in the movie "Adaptation".
2002 Swinton has again worked with Lynn Hershman Leeson. This time she took part in the science fiction film "TECHNOTEX", stories about biogenetics Rosetta stone, the Creator of three of his clones - cyborgs ruby, olive and marinn is located on, have one important thing: to maintain existence, they need to be fed Y-chromosomes, which contain the male sperm. In order to obtain the necessary substance, ruby regularly appears on city streets and seduces men, but after sex with a cyborg those Wake up impotent and with a small barcode on the forehead. In this film, Swinton belonged to all four of the major role - and bioenergetics of stone, and three clones.
2003 The actress starred at home in drama David Mackenzie Young Adam" based on the novel by Alexander Trocchi. The story takes place in the 50-ies in Scotland. The heroine Swinton - the owner of a coal barge Ella Gault - lives in a dull marriage, until the barge is not hired hobo Joe, a former writer-loser. Between him and Ella flashes passion, but then the husband and the lover caught from the river the corpse of a young woman - former girlfriend of Joe that is not committed suicide, as it seemed at first glance, and was killed. This brought Swinton award the British Academy of film and television for best actress in a Scottish film.
2003 Actress together with such stars as Michael Caine and Charlotte Rampling appeared in the drama "the Verdict" in which her character, the judge Annemarie leavey, raises the matter of Pierre Brossard, accomplice of the Nazis in France, the time of the Vichy regime, with the intention to get it answered for committed 60 years ago crimes against humanity.
2005 After a short break Swinton appeared in an unusual project - video installations Turkish designer Hussein Chalana "Lack of presence", which was presented in the pavilion of Turkey at the 61st Venice film festival. According to the designer's androgynous appearance of the actress was ideally suited for his directorial debut.
This year was quite fruitful for Swinton in the creative plan - she was involved in four scenes. First, she starred in a witty melodrama "Bad habit", playing the role of the mother of seventeen-year-old teenager Justin, who just can't get rid of the habit of thumb sucking. Then for the first time in his career, the actress has appeared in both big-budget Hollywood project - first in a mystical Thriller "Constantine: ruler of darkness", where her partner was Keanu Reeves, and Swinton played the Archangel Gabriel, and then in the fantastic movie "the Chronicles of Narnia: the lion, the Witch and the wardrobe".
In this film based on the eponymous work of C.S. Lewis, the actress appeared in the guise of an evil witch which plunged the magical land of Narnia in eternal winter. Initially it was assumed that in this role will be involved Michelle Pfeiffer, but for family reasons actress could not take part in the film, and in its place was invited Swinton. It was a perfect choice - according to critics, the actress was born for this role, and her appearance perfectly matches the description of the witch in the original: "her Face, too, was white - not merely pale, but white like snow, as paper, as the icing on the cake, and the mouth bright red. Beautiful face, but arrogant, cold and harsh".In addition Swinton at the invitation of Jim Jarmusch starred in his new film "Broken flowers with bill Murray in the lead role. This leisurely painting starts from the moment when the hero Murray, aged lady's man, don Johnston, receives a letter stating that he has a nineteen-year-old son. Since the letter was not signed, he goes in search of the mother of his hypothetical son and visits his former girlfriends, which was close to twenty years ago. One of these women - penny - and played Swinton. The appearance of her heroine on the screen was very short - barely seeing a former lover at the door, it slams in his face the door.
2008 The actress starred in the film "Michael Clayton" and received his first Oscar for best supporting actor. In the movie, the actress plays a businesswoman Karen Crowder that has to go on serious crime, to fix arisen working trouble. Crowder makes his free choice, and then is responsible for it.
2006 On the screen came just three films with the participation Tilde Swinton.
The first picture is a biographical drama by David Mackenzie "Niko" in which Swinton starred actress, model and singer Nico (real name: Krista Paffgen). Niko, the Muse of Andy Warhol, famous for his participation in the recording of the first album, the Velvet Underground, the role in the drama of Federico Fellini's "Dolce Vita", and numerous solo projects. In 1988, Nico died from a heroin overdose.
In the second film - drama "Stephanie Daley" - Swinton played the role of forensic psychologist Lydia crane. Lydia will be a difficult task to determine whether Venema sixteen-year-old Stephanie at the time of the murder of her newborn child, prematurely born, and is it really up to the birth were unaware of the fact that she was pregnant. The situation is aggravated by the fact that Lydia recently had a miscarriage, and during the investigation, she is 8 months pregnant.
January 2006 the film Stephanie Daley" was presented at the Sundance Film Festival and won the award for best screenplay. Also in 2006 were completed shooting the actress in the drama "Michael Clayton with George Clooney in the title role.
2007 Swinton takes part in the first full-length film odious musician Marilyn Manson's "phantasmagoria: the Visions of Lewis Carroll", where Manson will appear in the role of Lewis Carroll. Also Swinton appears in the drama Hungarian Director-garde Bela Tarr's "the Man from London" based on the novel by Georges Simenon.
2008 Premiere drama by John Maybery "Become a shadow" based on Shakespeare's tragedy. Swinton will play the role of lady Macbeth, and her partner, as well as twenty years ago in the film "Caravaggio", will be Sean Bean (he will be involved in the role of the king).
At the moment the actress meets artist from New Zealand Sandro Kopp. Family Tilde lives in the small town of Nairn in the North Scotland (highland), founded in the XI century during the reign of king William the Lion.
Previously, Swinton lived with Scot John Patrick Birnam, artist and playwright from whom she gave birth to two twins - son Xavier and daughter honor. Picture Byrne included in the collection of the National portrait gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh).
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