Tilda Swinton in Man to Man

Tilda Swinton is an acclaimed, Oscar and BAFTA-winning actor and performance artist of both stage and screen.

Tilda Swinton on stage

Tilda Swinton most recently starred in an anniversary revival of Man to Man at the Royal Court Theatre in London, reprising the role she first played nearly 40 years ago.

Tilda Swinton’s stage credits include Cloakroom, directed by Olivier Saillard at Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris and Le Festival d’Automne à Paris; The Long Way Round, directed by Stephen Unwin at the National Theatre; Mozart and Salieri (as Mozart), directed by Manfred Karge and performed in Vienna, Berlin, and at the Almeida; Man to Man, directed by Stephen Unwin at the Traverse Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre; Die Maßnahme, also directed by Stephen Unwin at the Almeida Theatre; The Tourist Guide, directed by Pierre Audi at the Almeida Theatre; and White Rose, directed by Stephen Unwin at the Traverse Theatre and the Almeida Theatre.

Tilda Swinton on film

Tilda Swinton played the title role in Orlando (1992) directed by Sally Potter from the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf. She has also had leading roles in The Deep End (2001), I am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015) both directed by Luca Guadagnino, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) by Jim Jarmusch with Tom Hiddleston. She played supporting characters in Michael Clayton (2007) by Tony Gilroy with George Clooney, winning Oscar and BAFTA awards, Burn After Reading (2008) and Hail Caesar! (2016) both directed by the Coen Bros, Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) both by Wes Anderson, Trainwreck (2015) by Judd Apatow with Amy Schumer. She was the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia film series (2005, 2008, 2010). She played the Ancient One in Marvel Comics Doctor Strange (2016) starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Avengers: Endgame (2019). Swinton acted in Hail Caesar! (2016) by Joel and Ethan Coen, Okja (2017) by Bong Joon-ho, Suspiria (2018) by Luca Guadagnino, The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) with Dev Patel, The French Dispatch (2021) by Wes Anderson, Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) by George Miller, The End (2024) by Joshua Oppenheimer with Michael Shannon, The Room Next Door (2024) by Pedro Almodovar with Julianne Moore, and Ballad of a Small Player (2025) directed by Edward Berger.

Tilda Swinton’s TV credits

Tilda Swinton’s TV credits include Getting On (Series 3), in which she played Elke (BBC); Man to Man directed by John Maybury (Channel 4); Your Cheatin’ Heart, as Cissie, directed by Michael Whyte (BBC); and Zastrozzi, in which she played Julia, directed by David G. Hopkins (Channel 4).

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