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Tilda Swinton
Swinton at the 2012 Time 100
Born	Katherine Mathilda Swinton (1960-11-05) 5 November 1960 (age 51) London, England
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1986–present
Partner	John Byrne Sandro Kopp (2004–present)
Children	twins Xavier Byrne and Honor Byrne (b. 1997)

Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British^[1] actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, The Chronicles of Narnia, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performances in The Deep End and We Need to Talk About Kevin. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton.

Early life[link]

Swinton was born in London, England.^[2] Her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, KCVO, OBE, DL, who was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire (1989–2000), is Scottish, and her mother, Judith Balfour, Lady Swinton (née Killen), was Australian.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} Her paternal great-grandfather was Scottish politician and officer-of-arms George Swinton, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour.^[8] The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the High Middle Ages.^[7]

Swinton attended three independent schools, Queen's Gate School in London, the West Heath Girls' School, and also Fettes College for a brief period.^{[citation needed]} In 1983, she graduated from New Hall (now known as Murray Edwards College) at Cambridge University with a degree in Social and Political Sciences. While at Cambridge, she joined the Communist Party.^[9]

Career[link]

Arthouse work[link]

Swinton worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, starring in Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge,^[10] and the Royal Shakespeare Company, before embarking on a career in film in the mid-1980s. She appeared as Julia in the 1986 television mini-series Zastrozzi: A Romance based on the Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her early film work included several film roles for director Derek Jarman, notably War Requiem (1989) playing a nurse opposite Laurence Olivier as an old soldier. In 1991, Swinton won the Volpi Cup Best Actress award for her role in the postmodern film Edward II.

Swinton also played the title role in Orlando, Sally Potter's film version of the novel by Virginia Woolf. The part allowed Swinton to explore matters of gender presentation onscreen which reflected her life-long interest in androgynous style. Swinton later reflected on the role in an interview accompanied by a striking photoshoot. “People talk about androgyny in all sorts of dull ways,” said Swinton, noting that the recent rerelease of Orlando had her thinking again about its pliancy. She referred to 1920s French artist and playful gender-bender Claude Cahun: “Cahun looked at the limitlessness of an androgynous gesture, which I’ve always been interested in.”^[11]

In 1995, with producer and friend Joanna Scanlan, Swinton developed a performance/installation live art piece in the Serpentine Gallery, London, where she was on display to the public for a week, asleep or apparently so, in a glass case, as a piece of performance art. The piece is sometimes credited to Cornelia Parker, whom Swinton invited to collaborate for the installation in London. The following year, the performance, entitled The Maybe, was repeated at the Museo Barracco in Rome. She also appeared in the music video for Orbital's "The Box". She has collaborated with the fashion designers Viktor & Rolf. She was the focus of their 'One Woman Show' 2003, in which they made all the models look like copies of Swinton, and she read a poem (of her own) that included the line, "There is only one you. Only one".^[12]

Mainstream films[link]

Recent years have seen Swinton move towards more mainstream projects, including the leading role in the American film The Deep End (2001), in which she plays the mother of a gay son she suspects of killing his boyfriend. For this performance she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She appeared as a supporting character in the films The Beach (2000), featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Vanilla Sky (2001) with Tom Cruise and, as the archangel Gabriel in Constantine (2005) with Keanu Reeves. Swinton has also appeared in the British films The Statement (2003) and Young Adam (2003), and sat on the jury of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Swinton at the 2008 British Academy Film Awards.

In 2005, Swinton performed as the White Witch Jadis, in the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and as Audrey Cobb in the Mike Mills film adaptation of the novel Thumbsucker. Swinton later had cameos in Narnia's sequels,The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

In 2007, Swinton's performance as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton earned her both a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2008 80th Academy Awards, the film's sole win.^[13][14][15]

Swinton next appeared in the 2008 Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading. Swinton said of the film, in which she plays opposite George Clooney, "I don’t know if it will make anybody else laugh, but it really made us laugh while making it."^[16]

She was cast for the role of Elizabeth Abbott in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, alongside Brad Pitt.

She had a starring role as the irresponsible eponymous character in Erick Zonca's Julia, which premiered at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival and later saw a limited U.S. release in May 2009. Several critics praised her performance and some claimed it should have won her an Academy Award.^[17][18][19]

She stars in the new film adaptation of the novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, released in October 2011. She portrays the mother of the title character, a teenage boy who commits a high school massacre.^[20]

She has joined the cast of Jim Jarmusch's untitled vampire film which will shoot in early 2012.^[21]

Other projects[link]

In 1988, she was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival.^[22]

In August 2006, she opened the new Screen Academy Scotland production centre in Edinburgh.^[23]

In July 2008, she founded the film festival Ballerina Ballroom Cinema Of Dreams.^[24] The event took place in a ballroom in Nairn on Scotland's Moray Firth in August.

Swinton has collaborated with artist Patrick Wolf on his 2009 album The Bachelor, contributing four spoken word pieces.^[25]

Swinton appeared at the 2009 Academy Awards, helping to present the 2009 Best Supporting Actress Awards.

In 2009, Swinton and Mark Cousins embarked on a project where they mounted a 33.5-tonne portable cinema on a large truck, hauling it manually through the Scottish Highlands, creating a travelling independent film festival. The project was featured prominently in a documentary called Cinema is Everywhere. The festival was repeated again in 2011.^[26][27][28]

Personal life[link]

Swinton lives in Nairn, overlooking the Moray Firth in the Highland region of Scotland. She maintains a living arrangement with her boyfriend Sandro Kopp, a German/New Zealander painter, her ex-partner John Byrne, and Byrne and Swinton's twin children: a son, Xavier and a daughter, Honor.^[3]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Tilda Swinton: ITV Anglia video interview at the 2008 Cambridge Film Festival
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• TildaSwinton.Net
• Tilda Swinton: A Life in Pictures, BAFTA webcast, 27 November 2007
• From The Guardian
• From BBC (2004)
• From NarniaWeb (2005)
• From Dark Horizons (2005)

Antony and the Johnsons
Background information
Genres	Baroque pop
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Secretly Canadian Rough Trade
Website	www.antonyandthejohnsons.com
Members
Antony Hegarty Julia Kent Parker Kindred Jeff Langston Rob Moose Maxim Moston Doug Wieselman Thomas Bartlett

Antony and the Johnsons are a music group presenting the work of Antony Hegarty and his collaborators.

Career[link]

British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Antony's music through his Durtro label. The debut album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 1998. In 2001, Hegarty released a short follow-up EP, I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy, which, in addition to the title track, included a cover of "Mysteries of Love", a David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti song and "Soft Black Stars", a Current 93 cover.

Producer Hal Willner heard the EP and played it to Lou Reed, who immediately recruited him for his project The Raven. Now gaining more attention, Hegarty signed to US-based record label Secretly Canadian, and released another EP, The Lake, with Lou Reed guest-performing on one of the tracks. Secretly Canadian also re-released Hegarty's debut album in the United States to wider distribution in 2004.

Antony's second full-length album, 2005's I Am a Bird Now, was greeted with positive reviews and significantly more mainstream attention. The album featured guest appearances by Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Boy George and Devendra Banhart, and circled themes of duality and transformation. I Am a Bird Now featured arrangements by Maxim Moston and Julia Kent and was mixed by Doug Henderson. In September 2005 Antony and the Johnsons were awarded the Mercury Prize^[1] for the best UK album of 2005. Rival Mercury nominees, and favorites for the prize, the Kaiser Chiefs suggested that Antony got in on a technicality; despite the fact he was born in the United Kingdom he spent much of his time in the US — although they later apologized for the suggestion that he wasn't a deserving winner.

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Antony and the Johnsons collaborated with experimental film-maker Charles Atlas and presented TURNING in November 2006 in Rome, London, Paris, Madrid, and Braga. Thirteen women from New York City were presented in intimate live video portraits during the course of the concert.^[2] The Guardian called the piece "fragile, life affirming, and truly wonderful (five stars)". Le Monde in Paris hailed TURNING as "Concert-manifeste transsexuel".

In 2006, the song Bird Gerhl was used in V for Vendetta. It was also included in the soundtrack released by Astralwerks Records, which featured artists such as Julie London and Cat Power along with instrumental work by composer Dario Marianelli.

Antony and the Johnsons' 5-song Another World EP was released on October 7, 2008. Antony and the Johnsons' third album, The Crying Light,^[3] was released on January 19, 2009 and went to #1 on the European Billboard charts.^[4] Antony has described the theme of the album as being "about landscape and the future".^[5] Nature, death, love and the role of the artist were explored across ten tracks, which included the single "Epilepsy Is Dancing." The album was mixed by Bryce Goggin and included arrangements by Nico Muhly.

Ann Powers wrote of The Crying Light for the LA Times online, “it's the most personal environmentalist statement possible, making an unforeseen connection between queer culture's identity politics and the green movement. As music, it's simply exquisite -- more controlled and considered than anything Antony and the Johnsons have done and sure to linger in the minds of listeners."^[6]

After touring throughout North America and Europe in support of their new album, Antony and the Johnsons presented a unique staging of The Crying Light with the Manchester Camerata at the Manchester Opera House for the 2009 Manchester International Festival. The concert hall was transformed into a crystal cave filled with laser effects created by installation artist Chris Levine. Antony and the Johnsons went on to present concerts with symphonies across Europe in Summer 2009, including the Opera Orchestra of Lyon, the Metropole Orchestra, Roma Sinfonietta and the Montreux Jazz Festival Orchestra. At Salle Playel in Paris, Antony appeared in a costume designed for him by Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy.

After two sold out concerts at the Sydney Opera House, Antony and the Johnsons ended their recent touring in February 2010 in Tokyo. Antony, Johanna Constantine and William Basinski performed at the Sogetsu Hall with butoh master Yoshito Ohno, the son of the 103 year-old dancer Kazuo Ohno, whose image graces the cover of The Crying Light.^[7] Kazuo Ohno died in June of that year, and Antony wrote an obituary for the dancer in The Guardian.^[8]

September 2010 saw the release of the Thank You For Your Love EP which includes covers of Dylan's "Pressing On" and Lennon's "Imagine". The Sun listed Thank You For Your Love as single of the week on August 27, 2010.

Antony and the Johnsons released a 4th album Swanlights on October 12, 2010 through Secretly Canadian and Rough Trade Records. Simultaneously, Abrams Books published a book edition of Swanlights featuring Antony's drawings and collages with photography by Don Felix Cervantes. Antony and the Johnsons performed "Thank You For Your Love" on both The Late Show with David Letterman and Later With Jools Holland in support of the album’s release. In October 2010 Antony was invited to "takeover" The Guardian's music and arts page that ran for weeks leading up to the release of Swanlights.^[9] Stereogum placed Swanlights in its Top 50 Albums of the year at #8.^[10]

In tribute to Kazuo Ohno, Antony and the Johnsons performed on October 30, 2010 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and featured the film "Mr. O's Book Of The Dead" directed by Chiaki Nagano and starring Kazuo Ohno.^[11]

In January 2011, Antony was a guest on "Winterguest", a program on Dutch Television's VPRO channel and was interviewed by Leon Verdonschot.

In 2010-2011, the song "Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground" from the album The Crying Light was chosen as one of the five stimuli that the International Baccalaureate Organization chose for the IB Theatre Arts PPP.

On January 26, 2012, the Museum of Modern Art in New York produced a sold-out performance by Antony and the Johnsons, entitled "Swanlights" after their fourth studio album, at Radio City Music Hall, a collaboration with laser artist Chris Levine and set designer Carl Robertshaw. Hailed a triumph by the New York Times, the spectacle was prefaced by a speech from Dr. Julia Yasuda, who said: “I am concerned about nature changing and dying. Won’t you please help her? Otherwise the world will be too lonely”. The New York Times entitled their article about the concert as "Cries From the Heart, Crashing Like Waves".^[12]

On March 14, 2012, the Southbank Centre in London announced that Antony would direct Meltdown 2012. Since 1993, some of the world's most distinguished musicians including Nick Cave, John Peel, Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, David Bowie and, most recently, Ray Davies, have directed Meltdown, hand-picking their ideal festival by inviting their favourite artists to play, perform and exhibit their work at Southbank Centre. Meltdown 2012 will see Antony create a line-up of twelve days of music, debate and performance that reflects his interests, influences and passions.

Political and ecological views[link]

In interviews around the world in 2010, Antony described his work on Swanlights and The Crying Light as "a collision between joy and a sense of hopelessness". Antony said he was struggling to come to terms with the idea that he was part of a society that was having a “virulent” impact on the earth.^[13] He suggested that the degradation of nature was partially a result of the subjugation of women and earth-based spiritual systems.^[13] Antony also blamed the collapse of humanity's sustainable relationship with the earth in part on the rise of patriarchal religions that suggest the destiny of humanity to be "a paradise elsewhere". Interview Magazine describes Swanlights as “an emotional personal call for global, collective change”.^[14]

Influence on other artists[link]

In November 2011, the English folk group The Unthanks released a live album, The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons.

Band members[link]

Current members include:

• Antony Hegarty - lead vocals, piano
• Julia Kent (previously of Rasputina) - cello
• Parker Kindred - drummer
• Jeff Langston - bassist
• Doug Wieselman - horns
• Maxim Moston - violin, arrangement
• Rob Moose - guitar, violin
• Thomas Bartlett - piano

Previous members have included:

• Joan Wasser - violin
• Tahrah Cohen aka Todd Cohen

Bibliography[link]

• Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlights, Abrams Image, 2010
• Jerome Solal, La Voix d'Antony, Le Mot et le Reste, 2011

Discography[link]

EPs[link]

• I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy (Durtro, January 2001; reissued on Rebis Music, 2006)
• The Lake (EP) (Secretly Canadian, November 2004)
• Hope There's Someone (Secretly Canadian, June 2005) UK #44^[15]
• You Are My Sister (Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade, November 2005) UK #39^[15]
• Another World (EP) (Secretly Canadian, October 7, 2008) US #179, UK Budget Albums #6^[15]
• Thank You for Your Love (Secretly Canadian, August 30, 2010)
• Swanlights (EP) (Secretly Canadian and Rough Trade Records, April 26, 2011)

Singles[link]

• "Cripple and the Starfish"
• "Epilepsy Is Dancing" (Secretly Canadian, 7 April 2009)
• "Aeon" (Secretly Canadian, 4 August 2009)

Promo singles[link]

• "Calling for Vanished Faces" / "Virgin Mary" 7" (Durtro, May 2003) (Split single with Current 93; Limited to 500 copies)

Live albums[link]

• Live at St. Olave's (Durtro, May 2003)
• Cut the World (Rough Trade, 2012) ^[17]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Concerts and Interviews on NPR Music