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Tilda Swinton

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Tilda Swinton

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Also known as Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton, Katherine Matilda Swinton

Scottish-British actress

OverviewAI-generated

Tilda Swinton is a British female artist from the United Kingdom. Her professional career began in 1984. She has two children and stands at a height of 1.78.

Swinton is recognized in the Academy Award Best Supporting Actress collection. Her recorded works include *Tilda Swinton*, *سينما سراب المدينة*, *Embodying Pasolini*, *Aperture 235*, and *Civic Radar*. Her musical output is tagged with spoken word and british.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • Tilda Swinton
  • سينما سراب المدينة
  • Embodying Pasolini
  • Aperture 235
  • Civic Radar

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1960-11-05

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,396
Total plays
5,191

Tags

spoken wordbritish

Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress and model known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films, including Burn After Reading, The Beach, The Chronicles of Narnia, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performances in The Deep End and We Need to Talk About Kevin. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Michael Clayton in 2007. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tilda+Swinton">

via Last.fm · Tilda Swinton

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture

    · 2007 · cited 1,192x

  2. Red Blood Cell Transfusion: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the AABB*

    · 2012 · cited 882x

  3. The Health and Well-Being of Caregivers of Children With Cerebral Palsy

    · 2005 · cited 822x

  4. Evaluating Cover Crops for Benefits, Costs and Performance within Cropping System Niches

    · 2005 · cited 764x

  5. The Effects of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Exercise Performance in Eumenorrheic Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    · 2020 · cited 664x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • “What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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Encyclopedic overview

Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a Scottish actress. Known for her physically transformative performances of eccentric and enigmatic characters on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Volpi Cup, in addition to nominations for five Actor Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

Swinton began her career by appearing in Derek Jarman's experimental films Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), and The Garden (1990). For her portrayal of Isabella of France in Edward II (1991), she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She next starred in Orlando (1992), Female Perversions (1996), and The Beach (2000), and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a desperate mother in The Deep End (2001).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tilda Swinton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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