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Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton (born 1960) is a British actress of English and Scottish descent. She studied social and political science at Cambridge, and joined the Communist Party. After graduating in 1983, she briefly worked in theater before acting in films. Her initial projects were very experimental and artistic, but the last ten years have seen her move to more mainstream films. She lives in Scotland with her ex-partner John Byrne (not John Byrne the comics artist), their two children, and her current partner Sandro Kopp.

Roles:

Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung (1986) as Sally
Zastrozzi: A Romance (1986) as Julia
Caravaggio (1986) as Lena
Aria (1987) as Young Girl
Friendship's Death (1987) as Friendship
The Last of England (1988)
War Requiem (1989) as the nurse
Your Cheatin Heart (1990) as Cissie Crouch
The Garden (1990) as Madonna
Edward II (1991) as Isabella
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992) as Ophelia
Orlando (1992) as Orlando
Blue (1993)
Conceiving Ada (1997) as Ada Augusta Byron King
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) as Muriel Belcher
The Protagonists (1998)
The War Zone (1999) as Mum
Possible Worlds (2000) as Joyce
The Beach (2000) as Sal
Vanilla Sky (2001) as Rebecca Dearborn
The Deep End (2001) as Margaret Hall
Adaptation (2002) as Valerie Thomas
Teknolust (2002)
Young Adam (2003) as Ella Gault
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch And The Wardrobe (2005) as Jadis the White Witch
Constantine (2005) as angel Gabriel
Michael Clayton (2007) as Karen Crowder
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2007) as Jadis the White Witch
Burn After Reading (2008) as Katie Cox
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) as Elizabeth Abbott
I Am Love (2009) as Emma Recchi
The Limits of Control (2009) as Blonde (cameo role)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) as Jadis the White Witch
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) as Eva

Tropes used in Tilda Swinton include:

Ambiguous Gender, Gender Bender, Viewer Gender Confusion: Has many of roles like this, such as archangel Gabriel.
Ice Queen: Many of her roles. She's literally an ice queen in Narnia.
Identical Stranger: She and Thom Yorke look uncannily like each other.
Mean Character, Nice Actor: Has done many nasty characters.
Rule of Tilda Swinton: "Tilda Swinton is mentioned on the poster = Tilda is a goddess and can do no wrong." Same reason why she is obligated to appear in every Narnia movie despite her character only being present in two of the books!
Typecasting: As a cold androgyne.
White-Haired Pretty Girl: As the White Witch and as the Angel Gabriel.

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 Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton (born 1960) is a British actress of English and [[Bonnie Scotland|Scottish]] descent. She studied social and political science at Cambridge, and joined the Communist Party. After graduating in 1983, she briefly worked in theater before acting in films. Her initial projects were very [[Le Film Artistique|experimental and artistic]], but the last ten years have seen her move to more mainstream films. She lives in Scotland with her ex-partner John Byrne ([[Name's the Same|not]] [[John Byrne]] the comics artist), their two children, and her current partner Sandro Kopp.