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Top 10 Facts about Tilda Swinton 

Tilda Swinton is a British actress known for her complete dedication to each character she portrays with her with deeply transformative performances that covers all genres, tones, and styles without a single miss in the entire process. Not matter what the role, leading or supporting, Swinton is known to always bring her A-game, that is why her performances will always ascend from range from good to excellent. 

Swinton has appeared in both independent films and blockbusters which have garnered her various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. For her exceptional acting skills, she was listed as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century in 2020, The New York Times. 

To learn more about the shapeshifting actress her has manage to portray a robot, a vampire, an angel and a witch, here are the top 10 facts about Tilda Swinton; 

1. Swinton can trace her ancestry back to the 9th century

Tilda Swinton at the 2012 British Academy Film Awards – Wikipedia

Katherine Matilda Swinton was born on 5 November 1960 in London to Judith Balfour and Sir John Swinton, the Laird of Kimmerghame House. Her father was a British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District from 1976 until his retirement in 1979. 

The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family, possibly descended from the prominent nobles of the kingdom of Northumbria. Some of the notable members include; her great-great-grandfather, John Hutton Balfour, who was a famed botanist; her great-grandfather, George Swinton, who was a noted Scottish politician and herself a well-respected and celebrated acters.  

The future Swinton generation also looks promising with her own daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne, following in her mother’s footsteps; she’s an actress who received acclaim for her starring role in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (2019), which also featured Tilda.  

2. She tried taking her brother’s life 

Tilda Swinton at the 2013 Deauville American Film Festival – Wikipedia

Swinton has three brothers; Alexander Harold Swinton, James Christopher Swinton and William Henry Swinton. When her younger sibling was born, she was very disappointing because he was a boy and planned to kill him. 

Fortunately, she had a change of heart when she entered his room and instead ended up saving her little brother鈥檚 life. She revealed this memory during her Promotional tour of the film We Need to Talk About Kevin. In the movie, Swinton portrays a mother dealing with her grief after her teenage son opens fire on his high school. 

“When I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother. I went into his room to kill him, saw some ribbons from a bonnet going into his mouth, and began to pull them out. And I was discovered saving his life. So I had this strange reputation鈥攎y brother’s savior鈥攁nd no one knew I wanted to kill him.” Swinton revealed in a 20o2 The New Yorker interview.  

3. Bullied as teenager 

Bullying Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Swinton attended the West Heath Girls’ School, a girl’s boarding school. Initially, Swinton was excited about it since it was a cultural tradition for children from posh families to attend posh boarding schools, and she was happy to be surrounded by girls her own age, considering all her siblings are boys. She explains, 鈥�…because I was happy to be amongst girls, having been in a family with a bunch of boys. I was going, 鈥極K, fine. So now I鈥檓 a girl.’鈥�  

Unfortunately, the boarding school did not live up to her expectations as she ended up being bullied, causing her not to speak for several years. “I don’t think I spoke for five years,鈥� Swinton once said. 

Today, Swinton speaks out against boarding schools, stating that West Heath was “a very lonely and isolating environment” and that she thinks boarding schools “are a very cruel setting in which to grow up, and I don’t feel children benefit from that type of education. Children need their parents and the love parents can provide.” 

4. Some sort of makeshift school for her children 

Tilda Swinton in Edinburgh, August 2007 – Wikimedia Commons

No doubt that Swinton鈥檚 boarding school experience was traumatizing, and she would not like for her children to experience any of it. Swinton shares twins, Honor and Xavier Swinton Byrne, with her then-partner John Byrne, a Scottish artist and playwright. 

When her children turned 14, the actress enrolled them at a school which she and some of her friends started in Scotland. Drumduan School, an independent alternative education school based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. At the school there are no grades, no desks and no tests. 

The school emerged as a branch of the already established Moray Steiner School. During its inspection the government inspector noticed the students confident, articulate, highly motivated and respectful. In fact, in his report, the inspector indicated that he believed the students at Drumduan wanted to be there.  

5. Attended the same school as Princess Diana 

Princess Diana by John Mathew Smith – Wikipedia

Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first wife of King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and mother of Princes William and Harry. She became an international icon due to her activism and glamour. The Princes of Wales joined West Heath Girls’ School in Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1973 and was a classmate to Tilda Swinton. 

Unlike Princess Diana, Swinton broke all the rules and did her 鈥渙wn thing鈥�. After school, Swinton was expected to become the wife of an established nobility instead, she pursed a career in acting. She made her film debut alongside Sean Bean in the 1986 British historical drama Caravaggio, based on the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. 

6. Tilda Swinton and David Bowie looked alike 

David Bowie sourced from Wikimedia Commons

David Bowie was an English singer-songwriter and actor who was regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. 

鈥淗e just looked like me, and looked like someone from the same planet as I did,鈥� Swinton once told The Daily Beast about first seeing images of the late rock legend. Sentiments that the great musical legend shared, having once saw a fashion shoot she had done and thought it was him. 

The two entered up being friends and Tilda appeared in Bowie鈥檚 music videos, including The Stars (Are Out Tonight) in which the pair played a role-swapping couple. They even dressed up as the other at one point in the video. 

Upon the Death of David Bowie, Swinton paid tribute to Bowie, portraying a celebrated glam-rock singer named Marianne Lane that鈥檚 a clear play on Ziggy Stardust, Bowie鈥檚 alter ego. 

7. She gambled to fund her early years of acting 

Horse racing at Golden Gate Fields, Albany, California – Wikipedia

As a young actress, Swinton was making peanuts from her acting career to survive in London, she had to find alternative methods to make money. This is when she began betting on horses to make ends meet.  

In Swinton鈥檚 own words, “When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn’t really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things, like I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses. 

Swinton learnt about horse betting as a child from her grandfather, who taught her how to back winners. “My grandfather had an old gardener called Bert Matheson, and he taught me how to pick winners, and it kind of works! It’s very strange… it’s to do with… just looking at the horses in the ring and asking whether they’re gonna win or not! Basically, I mean,” Switon once said during an interview.  

8. Oscar Awards shortcomings 

Academy Award Oscar statue – Image by Gia Knight from Pixabay

The Academy Awards was one of the most respected and anticipated Hollywood films awards, but in recent times it has been critiqued for its biasness in failing to nominate films that reflect the broad genres of cinema. This has resulted in many celebrates publicly dissing the organization and even swearing not to attend the award ceremony.  

A good example of the Oscar鈥檚 shortcoming is when Tilda Swinton got a Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Critics’ Choice nomination for one particular role but not an Oscar nomination for the same role. 

However, her performance as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton earned her both a British Academy Film Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 2008 80th Academy Awards. 

9. Swinton does not view herself as an actor

Tilda Swinton speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California – Wikipedia

The first thing when we think of Tilda Swinton is we picture her as a character in the different films she has appeared in, a personal favorite is of her as the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. 

However, Tilda does not view herself as an actor, 鈥淚 always say I鈥檓 not an actor. For two reasons. Firstly, I鈥檓 genuinely not interested in acting, particularly. I don鈥檛 know anything about it. I didn鈥檛 train. And I鈥檝e heard and read enough proper, real actors talk about acting to know I don鈥檛 worship at the same church. So I鈥檇 rather say it before they do!鈥� she explained during an interview 

10. What does Swinton identify as? 

Tilda Swinton during the Vienna International Film Festival, 2018 – Wikipedia

The world is full of many conspiracies about Hollywood and one of them is that Swinton is an alien from outer space because of her unusual physical features: extremely wide set eyes, a triangular face, narrow lips, and a pale, androgynous physique. 

Swinton herself has identified herself as 鈥減robably a woman鈥� preferring to refer to herself as queer. In an interview she explains, 鈥淚鈥檓 very clear that queer is actually, for me anyway, to do with sensibility. I always felt I was queer – I was just looking for my queer circus, and I found it. And having found it, it鈥檚 my world.鈥�