The Leonardo Chronicles by Rose Anderson

Work with the groundbreaking writer/director/cinematographer for the next nine years, involving herself in seven of his often notorious films. In 1985, the tall, slender performer with alabaster skin and carrot-topped hair began a professionalĪssociation with gay experimental director Manfred Karge's 'Man to Man,' a role she later committed to film ( Man to Man (1992)). She portrayed Mozart in Pushkin's 'Mozart and Salieri', and as a workingĬlass woman impersonating her dead husband during World War II, in

With a pungent taste for the unique and seldom tried, Tilda found some gender-bending stage roles come her way. Season with the Royal Shakespeare Company where she appeared in such productions as 'Measure for Measure.' The rebel insider her, however, was strong and she left the company after a year as her approach and interests began to shiftĭramatically. During her tenure as a student, she performed countless stage productions and proceeded to work for a Political Science at Cambridge University and graduated in 1983 with aĭegree in English Literature. Educated at an EnglishĪnd a Scottish boarding school, Tilda subsequently studied Social and Her ancestry is Scottish, Northern Irish, and English, including a long tapestry of prominent Scottish ancestors.

Her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, an army officer, wasĮnglish-born. Mother, Judith Balfour, Lady Swinton (née Killen), was Australian, and

She was born Katherine Mathilda Swinton into a patrician Scottish military family on November 5, 1960, in London, England. After her stunning Oscar-winning turn as a high-powered corporate attorney in the George Clooney starring and critically-lauded legal thriller Майкл Клейтон (2007), however, her androgynous looks and often bizarre appeal have been embraced by more mainstream crowds as well. The iconoclastic gifts of the highly striking and ferociously talented actress Tilda Swinton have been appreciated by art house crowds and international audiences alike.

The Leonardo Chronicles by Rose Anderson