Tilda She studied at the West Heath Girls’ School in Sevenoaks, Kent, alongside Diana spencer, who would later become Lady di, Wale’s princess. He then studied Political and Social Sciences at Cambridge University, graduating in 1983.
Shortly after Tilda began her acting career, working for a year at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh.
His early feature films include several directorial titles Derek Jarman, being remarkable his performance with Sir Laurence Olivier on “War Requiem“(1989). Two more years trade Tilda won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the post-modern film “Edward II“.
The actress was also the main protagonist of “Orlando“(1992), the version that Sally potter made from the novel by Virginia Wolf.
Swinton became popular in 1995, when it appeared as a living exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London. It was exposed to the public for a week, asleep or apparently asleep, in a glass box, as part of a work erroneously attributed to the artist Cornelia parker. The following year, this montage, entitled The Maybe, was exhibited in a gallery in Rome.
Through the years, Tilda He concentrated his career favoring art over celebrity, opening up to new projects and directors. His central roles in films such as “Female Perversions“(Perversions of woman) (1996),”Love is the devil“(1998),”Teknolust“(2002),”Young adam“(2003),”Broken Flowers“(2005) and”To Londoni ferfi“, they contributed to recreate this mystique.
Since the birth of her twins in 1997, the actress also began to participate in major Hollywood projects such as “The beach“(2000) with Leonardo Dicaprio; “Constantine“(2000) with Keanu reeves; “Michael clayton“(2000) with George Clooney and for which he won the Oscars and Golden Globe awards and; of course, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe“(2005), in which he made an iconic interpretation of the White Witch, that he repeated in “The Chronicles of Narnia – Prince Caspian“(2008) and in”The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader“(2011).
Also in 2008 Tilda worked again together with George Clooney in the brothers movie Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, “Burn After Reading“in which he was also the protagonist Brad Pitt with whom he also starred, along with “Cate blanchett“,”The curious case of Benjamin Button“.
His latest work is the leading role in the film “We Need to Talk About Kevin“(2011), based on the award-winning novel of the same name, by Lionel shriver, and which was acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival.
In his personal life, Tilda She is divorced from the father of her twins Xavier and Honor, the Scottish writer and composer John byrne. Since 2004 she has been in a relationship with the artist Sandro Koop.