Tilda Swinton
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I think I enjoy my work now even more simply because it's even easier than it was. It sounds sacrilegious to say that anything's a delight when you're away from your children, but the truth is that it is refreshing to only have yourself to dress in the morning, and to lie diagonally across the bed. Making films, going round the world on tour - all these crazy things that were so difficult before are so much easier than breastfeeding twins for 14 months that frankly it is a delight.
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Birthdate :November 5, 1960
Location :London , United Kingdom
Country :England
Sign : Scorpio
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Job :actresses
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Tilda Swinton Timeline
1988
Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1988.1991
Won the Venice Film Festival award for Edward II .1992
Does not always play women; she has played Mozart on stage, an Elizabethan nobleman in Orlando and an androgynous angel, Gabriel, in Constantine .1995
Reached great artistic acclaim through her art installation/performance piece "The Maybe", for which she lay sleeping in a glass case on public display for a week, once at the Sepentine Gallery in London and once at the Museo Barracco in Rome. The piece is often erroneously credited to artist Cornelia Parker, whom Swinton invited to collaborate for the installation in London .1997
Gave birth to twins, a daughter named Honor Byrne and a son named Xavier Byrne, in 1997.1998
Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1998.2003
Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003.2003
Functioned as the muse and mascot of Dutch fashion designers Viktor and Rolf, who made an entire collection inspired by her .2004
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 20042004
Since 2004, she has been in a relationship with Sandro Kopp, a painter from New Zealand.2005
Performed live with Patti Smith on four nights of the 2005 London Meltdown Festival reading texts by Susan Sontag, Bertolt Brecht, William Blake and William S. Burroughs.2005
On her days off from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , she could be seen on-set, offering encouragement to her young co-stars.2006
Delivered the seminal State of Cinema Address in 2006 at the San Francisco International Film Festival, discussing the relationship of dreams, inarticulacy and film.2007
In her acceptance speech, she said she would give the Oscar she won for Michael Clayton to her agent Brian Swardstrom.2007
Was declared one of the ten best dressed women in the world by Vanity Fair in 2007.2008
Received a 90 minute tribute at the 2008 AFI (American Film Institute) Festival.2008
In the top ten of the 2008 International Best-Dressed List.2008
Funded and held her own very successful Film Festival in her small Scottish highland home-town: The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams. A purely cinephile, glamour-free community event. For eight and a half days in August 2008, she personally introduced and showed an eclectic mix of classics and rare films from around the world. The admission price was 3 pounds for adults, 2 pounds for children or a plate of home-baked cakes.