A tall, delicately beautiful, red-haired English performer, Tilda Swinton has chosen to specialize in non-mainstream films, coming to prominence as the muse of the late British director Derek Jarman. Film theoretician Peter Wollen put Swinton's ethereal, somewhat androgynous presence to good use in his directorial debut, "Friendship's Death" (1987), in which she played an alien android shipwrecked on earth. Swinton's teaming with Jarman began with his biography of Italian painter "Caravaggio" (1986), in which she played a prostitute who transforms herself in a lady, and continued through films including "The Last of England" (1987), in which she memorably sliced up a wedding gown in a windstorm with a pair of garden shears, "The Garden" (1990), as a Madonna. She brilliantly captured the icy hauteur of a woman scorned playing Queen Isabella in Jarman's "Edward II" (1991) but delivered what is probably her best (and best-known) performance as the eponymous hero-turned-heroine of Sally Potter's "Orlando" (1992). In the same film, she also doubled as the young Elizabeth I, prompting reviewers to note her resemblance to portraits of the Virgin Queen.

After a final collaboration with Jarman ("Blue" 1994), Swinton garnered critical attention as a lawyer who undergoes a personality crisis at the height of professional success in "Female Perversions" (1996) and continued in avant-garde films as the pregnant Ada Byron in "Conceiving Ada" (1997). In addition to Jarman, the actress had developed a working relationship with filmmaker John Maybury, starting with a recreation of her stage role of a woman who assumes her dead husband's identity in "Man to Man" (1992). More recently, a nearly unrecognizable Swinton reunited with Maybury to play an acerbic lesbian in "Love Is the Devil" (1998), a film based on the life of British painter Francis Bacon.

Gradually moving into more mainstream fare, Swinton gave a brave performance as the mother in a family torn apart by incest in "The War Zone" (1999) and co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Beach" (2000). The actress had one of her best roles as the mother of a gay son who goes to any length to protect her child after his older, abusive lover is found dead in the intriguing if not wholly satisfying "The Deep End" (2001). Later that year, Swinton offered her support to star Tom Cruise in a pivotal role in "Vanilla Sky," and in 2002 she had a brief but noticeable role as a Hollywood development executive in director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman's "Adaptation."

After a stint as a married woman drawn to a mysterious drifter (Ewan McGregor) who may be responsible for a horrific crime in the dramatic thriller "Young Adam" (2003) and a turn opposite Michael Caine in director Norman Jewison's undistinguished thriller "The Statement" (2003), Swinton's next high-profile role was as the compelling androgynous, morally complicated angel Gabriel who pities occult investigator John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) in the comic book-derived horror-action hybrid "Constantine" (2005). She stepped back into independent film for Jim Jarmusch’s “Broken Flowers” (2005), playing one of four ex-girlfriends of a man (Bill Murray) who tracks down his former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter from the mother of his unknown son.

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  Nico (2006) (announced) .... Nico
Michael Clayton (2006) (pre-production)
The Man from London (2005) (filming)
... aka A Londoni férfi (Hungary)
... aka Homme de Londres, L' (France)

Stephanie Daley (2006) .... Lydie Crane
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) .... White Witch
The Somme (2005) (TV) .... Narrator
Broken Flowers (2005) .... Penny
... aka Broken Flowers (USA)
Constantine (2005/II) (VG) (voice) .... Gabriel
Constantine (2005) .... Gabriel
Thumbsucker (2005) .... Audrey Cobb
The Statement (2003) .... Annemarie Livi
Young Adam (2003) .... Ella Gault
Adaptation. (2002) .... Valerie Thomas
Teknolust (2002) .... Rosetta/Ruby/Marinne/Olive
Vanilla Sky (2001) .... Rebecca Dearborn
The Deep End (2001) .... Margaret Hall
Possible Worlds (2000) .... Joyce
... aka Mondes possibles (Canada: French title)
The Beach (2000) .... Sal

The War Zone (1999) .... Mum
... aka Tim Roth's The War Zone (USA: poster title)
... aka Zona di guerra (Italy)
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) .... Muriel Belcher
... aka Love Is the Devil (France) (UK: short title)
... aka Ai no akuma (Japan)
... aka Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (USA)
Conceiving Ada (1997) .... Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
... aka Leidenschaftliche Berechnung (Germany)
Female Perversions (1996) .... Eve Stephens
... aka Phantasien einer Frau (Germany)
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (1994)
Visions of Heaven and Hell (1994) (TV) .... Narrator
Blue (1993/I) (voice)
Offene Universum, Das (1993) (TV) .... Carla
Wittgenstein (1993) .... Lady Ottoline Morrell
"Shakespeare: The Animated Tales" (1992) (mini) TV Series (voice) .... Ophelia
Orlando (1992) .... Orlando
Man to Man (1992) .... Ella/Max Gericke
Edward II (1991) .... Isabella
The Party: Nature Morte (1991) .... Queenie
... aka Party
"Your Cheatin' Heart" (1990) TV Series .... Cissie Crouch
The Garden (1990/I) .... Madonna

Play Me Something (1989) (TV) .... Hairdresser
War Requiem (1989) .... Nurse
The Last of England (1988)
Andere Ende der Welt, Das (1988)
Degrees of Blindness (1988)
Ispirazione, L' (1988)
Aria (1987) .... Young Girl (segment "Depuis le jour")
Friendship's Death (1987) .... Friendship
Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung (1986) .... Sally
"Zastrozzi: A Romance" (1986) (mini) TV Series .... Julia
Caravaggio (1986) .... Lena