Biography: Katherine Mathilda Swinton is an English actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films.
Swinton was born in London to Judith (an Australian) and Sir John Swinton (a Scottish major-general in the Scots Guards). She also has family in Monkseaton.
She attended West Heath Girls' School (the same school as Diana, Princess of Wales), and also Fettes College for a brief period. In 1983, graduated from New Hall at Cambridge University with a degree in the social and political sciences.
Film career :
Carving out an international reputation as a risk taker, she has always eschewed conventional leading lady roles. She worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and the Royal Shakespeare Company before embarking on a career in film in the mid-1980s.
Her early film work included several film roles for director Derek Jarman, and also the title role in Orlando,Sally Potter's film version of the novel by Virginia Woolf.
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.
Recent years have seen her move towards more mainstream projects, including the leading role in the well-reviewed American film The Deep End. She appeared as a scheming angel Gabriel in Constantine with Keanu Reeves, as a supporting character in films such as Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise, and The Beach, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio. Swinton has also appeared in British films: Young Adam (2004) and The Statement (2003).
In 2005, she starred as the White Witch Jadis, in the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and two other (but perhaps lesser known) roles as Penny in the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers and Audrey Cobb in the Mike Mills film adaptation of the novel Thumbsucker.
Personal life
She lives in Nairn, Scotland with her husband John Byrne, an artist, and their two children, Xavier Byrne and Honor Byrne. jkljio
Katherine Mathilda Swinton is an English actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films.
Swinton was born in London to Judith (an Australian) and Sir John Swinton (a Scottish major-general in the Scots Guards). She also has family in Monkseaton.
She attended West Heath Girls' School (the same school as Diana, Princess of Wales), and also Fettes College for a brief period. In 1983, graduated from New Hall at Cambridge University with a degree in the social and political sciences.
Film career:
Carving out an international reputation as a risk taker, she has always eschewed conventional leading lady roles. She worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and the Royal Shakespeare Company before embarking on a career in film in the mid-1980s.
Her early film work included several film roles for director Derek Jarman, and also the title role in Orlando,Sally Potter's film version of the novel by Virginia Woolf.
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.
Recent years have seen her move towards more mainstream projects, including the leading role in the well-reviewed American film The Deep End. She appeared as a scheming angel Gabriel in Constantine with Keanu Reeves, as a supporting character in films such as Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise, and The Beach, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio. Swinton has also appeared in British films: Young Adam (2004) and The Statement (2003).
In 2005, she starred as the White Witch Jadis, in the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and two other (but perhaps lesser known) roles as Penny in the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers and Audrey Cobb in the Mike Mills film adaptation of the novel Thumbsucker.
Personal life
She lives in Nairn, Scotland with her husband John Byrne, an artist, and their two children, Xavier Byrne and Honor Byrne. jkljio
London, England
