Tilda Swinton

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.

Tilda Swinton has performed in the following 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

Tilda Swinton provides examples of the following tropes:

• 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. ^{[dead link]}
• 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.