Katherine Matilda Swinton is a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 2007 film Michael Clayton. She is also known for her role as the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. Swinton began her career in experimental films, directed by Derek Jarman.
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Katherine Matilda Swinton is a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 2007 film Michael Clayton. She is also known for her role as the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. Swinton began her career in experimental films, directed by Derek Jarman, starting with Caravaggio. In 2020, Swinton was named as a recipient of the British Film Institute Fellowship, the highest honour presented by the Institute which honours individuals in recognition of their outstanding contribution to film or television culture. She has spoken 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’ Swinton spent two years as a volunteer in South Africa and Kenya before University. In 1983, she graduated from New Hall at the University of Cambridge with a degree in Social and Political Sciences. While at Cambridge, she joined the Communist Party; she later joined the Scottish Socialist Party.
She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, appearing in Measure for Measure. She also worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, starring in Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge in 1987. On television, she appeared as Julia in the 1986 mini-series Zastrozzi: A Romance based on the Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley. She went on to star in several Jarman films, including The Last of England, War Requiem opposite Laurence Olivier, and Edward II, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1991 Venice Film Festival. She next starred in Sally Potter’s Orlando, and was nominated for the European Film Award for best actress. SwINTON was given the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in 2013, for her contributions to the British film industry. The part in Orlando allowed her to explore matters of gender presentation onscreen, which reflected her lifelong interest in androgynous style. She later reflected on the role in an interview accompanied by a striking photo shoot. She said that the recent re-release of Orlando had her thinking about its plcyian and artistian nature.
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