Biography on hilda swinton

One of the most individual and distinctive of present-day British actors, Tilda Swinton has lent her striking presence to an impressive range of films. Starting out in the challenging, mini-budget art films of Derek Jarman, she has recently been taking roles in more mainstream Hollywood movies - though rarely in anything routine.

Katherine Matilda Swinton was born in London into a patrician Scottish military family that can trace its lineage back to the 9th century.

Her father was Major-General Sir John Swinton, Head of the Queen's Household Division and later Lord-Lieutenant of Berwickshire.

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Her mother Judith was Australian. After attending various private schools - which she loathed - and performing voluntary work in Africa, Swinton went to New Hall College Cambridge, where she joined the Communist Party and graduated in 1983 with a degree in Social and Political Sciences.

Her acting career started in student productions at Cambridge.

She later appeared at the Traverse Theat