The actress grew up in a castle in Berwickshire, received a thorough education, and her school friend was the future Lady Di, Princess of Wales. The eminently gifted Swinton attended the University of Cambrigde and obtained degrees in Sociology and English Literature. Even though it was already the 1980s, it was still in good taste in aristocratic circles to spend life as a “lady” with her husband. However, Tilda, apart from her intelligence and beauty, has a rebellious spirit in her and decided to go a different path. Since her studies, she played in theaters, but planned to become a journalist. In 1985 she met the avant-garde artist Derek Jarman and it changed her life. Her debut on the big screen was in his film Caravaggio. The picture was a success, and Swinton starred in Jarman’s next several projects. When he died of AIDS in 1994, she refused to play for two years.
She has an androgynous beauty, and sometimes plays male characters (such as the horror movie Suspiria ) or “undefined” (the archangel Gabriel in Constantine with Keanu Reeves). Each scene with her participation stays in your memory. The actress is so distinctive that viewers often remember her best from the entire movie. And over the years it has practically not changed. She still looks almost the same as in 1986 when she made her debut.
She often appeared in the paintings of Jim Jarmusch, but she also likes fantasy climates. She has appeared in such films as: twisted Adaptation , the non-obvious Vanilla Sky, the funny Grand Budapest Hotel, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Theory of Everything, Lovers by the Moon.
She was cold as the people as the White Witch in several episodes of The Chronicles of Narnia, she played a vampire in Only Lovers Will Survive , she was a cyborg in Teknolust , a sex-change aristocrat traveling back in time in Orlando . She won an Oscar for her role in Michael Clayton . She appeared in the sci-fi drama Snowpiercer: The Ark of the Future, science fiction Doctor Strange, Avengers: Endgame, Dead Dead, Korean Okja. If I haven’t mentioned something, forgive me. There are so many of them …
What is Tilda Swinton like? He likes to push boundaries and play weird characters. He puts on men’s suits and rarely wears makeup. He is not afraid of challenges. The actress, for example, was part of an installation at a museum in New York in 2013. She showed up lying in a glass box for over 6 hours (why not in a coffin?). The description read: “The Maybe 1995/2013. A living artist, glass, steel, mattress, pillow, linen, water and glasses ”.
I never quite understand how society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and the ability to be kind always seem plausible signs to me.
When we look at her, she seems like an angel, an ancient one, maybe a cyborg. In any case, it’s hard to imagine her having a personal life. And yet. With John Byrn, the Scottish playwright, he has two children, twins Xavier and Honor Swinton Byrne. Currently, the actress lives with her partner Sandro Kopp in a castle in Scotland.
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