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| Birth Name(s) : Katherine Mathilda Swinton |
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Full Tilda Swinton Biography
Katherine Mathilda Swinton (born November 5, 1960), better known as Tilda Swinton, is a Golden Globe Award-nominated British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films.
Tilda Swinton was born in London, daughter of Sir John Swinton of Swinton, a Scottish major-general in the Scots Guards and former head of the Queen's Household Division, and his Australian-born wife, Lady Judith Balfour Killen. She also has relatives in the towns of Monkseaton and Newcastle. The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the ninth century. Swinton attended West Heath Girls' School (the same school as Diana, Princess of Wales), and also Fettes College for a brief period. In 1983, she graduated from New Hall at Cambridge University with a degree in the social and political sciences.
Swinton became notorious for a brief period in 1995 when she appeared as a live exhibit in the Serpentine Gallery, London. She was on display to the public for a week, asleep or apparently so, in a glass case, as a piece of performance art by Cornelia Parker. The following year, the performance, entitled The Maybe, was repeated at a gallery in Rome. She appeared in the music video for Orbital's "The Box".
In 2005, her performance as the sinister, seductive villainess, the White Witch Jadis, in the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe garnered critical praise as did her portrayal of Audrey Cobb in the Mike Mills film adaptation of the novel Thumbsucker.
Swinton lives in Nairn in the north of Scotland with her husband John Byrne, an artist. She has two children, Xavier Byrne and Honor Byrne. |
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