Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton (born Katherine Matilda Swinton; November 5, 1960) is an award-winning British actress of Scottish descent, known for her versatile roles in independent films and blockbusters. She is a recipient various accolades throughout her long career, including an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards, in addition to being nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. Swinton began her career by appearing in experimental films starting with Caravaggio (1986), followed by The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), and The Garden (1990). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Isabella of France in Edward II (1991). She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992), for which she received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End (2001), and followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky (2001), Adaptation (2002), Constantine (2005), Julia (2008), and I Am Love (2009). For the film Young Adam (2003), she won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actress. Her performance in Michael Clayton (2007) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Additionally, she won the European Film Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). Swinton has also played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series (2005–2010) and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. Swinton was awarded the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry. In 2013, she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, Swinton was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship, the highest honour presented by the institution, for her "daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and filmmaker and recognizes her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy." That same year, The New York Times ranked her thirteenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century up to that point.
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Snowpiercer
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as Wood Sprite / Death (voice)During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life...
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as Social ServicesSet on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the...
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as Lucy Mirando / Nancy MirandoA young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from...
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as EveA depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their...
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as MumAn alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with...
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as ElizabethAlejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to...
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as Emma RecchiEmma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial...
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as Julie / RosalindAn artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former...
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as Betsey TrotwoodA fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal...
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as Dr. Shrink-RomA computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work...
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Young Adam
as Ella GaultA young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact...
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Memoria
as Jessica HollandOne morning, Jessica Holland, a Scottish orchid farmer visiting her sister in Bogotá, is woken...
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Caravaggio
as LenaA retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da...
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as BlondeA mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one....
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as Narrator (voice)As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future,...
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as Margaret HallWith her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually...
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The Human Voice
as WomanA woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick...
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Edward II
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The Statement
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as RosalindIn the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man,...
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as SelfWith mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special...
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as Lady Ottoline MorrellA dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born,...
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Blue
as (voice)Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound...
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Possible Worlds
as JoyceThe same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different...
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as CaméliaA switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a...
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The Garden
as Madonna/Voice OversA nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A...
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Deep Water
as Narrator (voice)DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur...
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as SelfLooks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities...
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as Gertrude Bell (voice)Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of...
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Aria
as Young GirlTen short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard,...
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The Last of England
as The MaidThe artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry...
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as Self (archive footage)Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually...
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Stephanie Daley
as Lydie CraneStephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that...
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as Self / Social ServicesMartin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short...
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Radioman
as SelfThe extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and...
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Teknolust
as Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / OliveAnxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a...
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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
as SelfThe wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art...
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as Narrator (voice)Little Billy’s life is tormented by his scheming aunt who drags him daily to the cemetery and...
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as The NurseDuring World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround...
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A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice)One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a...
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Caprice
as LuckyA girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National...
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14 Actors Acting
as SelfThis year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.
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Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
as SelfDocumentary on the making of the film.
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Friendship's Death
as FriendshipA robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to...
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The Protagonists
as ActressAn Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a...
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The Somme
as Narrator (voice)Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the...
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Cycling the Frame
as The CyclistIn 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the...
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Egomania: Island Without Hope
as SallyEgomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set...
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Ashes
as SelfIn collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website,...
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Dreams Rewired
as Narrator (voice)Tracing anxieties about technology back to the 1880s, DREAMS REWIRED combines clips from nearly...
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Glitterbug
as SelfA collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
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The Invisible Frame
as The CyclistIn 1988 Cynthia Beatt and the young Tilda Swinton embarked on a filmic journey along the Berlin...
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Love Flesh
as SelfDuring the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique...
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Play Me Something
as HairdresserA group of individuals are stranded at a small island airport when the flight from the mainland...
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as SelfDocumentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
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The Gospel According to St Derek
as SelfUsing interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek...
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
as Self (archive footage)Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has...
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Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
as uncreditedRemembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has...
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When Björk Met Attenborough
as Narrator (voice)Award-winning musician Björk and legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough...
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Letters from Generation Rx
as Narrator (voice)As a result of the 2008 documentary"Generation Rx," thousands of people wrote director Kevin P....
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Derek Jarman: A Portrait
as SelfA BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden,...
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The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
as SelfA collection of thoughts and journeys. A dialogue between different forms of knowledge. A film...
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Cannes: All Access
as SelfFrom its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the...
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Your Cheatin' Heart
as uncreditedIn this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country...
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All Kinds of Love
as SelfTilda Swinton recites a poem by Claes Oldenburg.
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async - first light
as uncreditedA collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album...
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The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
as SelfA recorded Q&A hosted by Mark Kermode, where Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swintondiscuss the...
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Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
as SelfAt the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, Tilda Swinton talks to director Luca Guadagnino about cinema,...
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Conceiving Ada
as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of LovelaceEmmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into...
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Strange Culture
as Hope KurtzThe film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art...
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Degrees of Blindness
as uncreditedInspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision.
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Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
as Narrator (voice)A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental...
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The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
as SelfJoining Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas on his annual pilgrimage to the Cannes Film...
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Death of a World Star
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)A mockumentary directed by Christoph Schlingensief.
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Climate of Change
as Narrator (voice)"We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old...
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Antarctica: On the Edge
as Narrator (voice)Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, the most forbidding continent on Planet...
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
as SelfThe Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an...
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Derek
as Narrator (voice)Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek...
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The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
as uncreditedThe official music video for "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" by David Bowie, it premiered on 25...
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Sleepwalkers
as Violinist working as a Copy ClerkA bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make...
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The Party: Nature Morte
as QueenieThe eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.
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The Open Universe
as CarlaThe whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco...
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Moments on the Set of I Am Love
as SelfA documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.
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Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
as SelfA portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers...
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Man to Man
as Ella / Max GerikeA woman pretends to be her dead husband in Nazi Germany in order to survive.
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Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
as Narrator (voice)Narrated by Tilda Swinton and produced by the National Gallery of Art, this documentary film...
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Visions of Heaven and Hell
as Narrator (voice)Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this...
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The Dilapidated Dwelling
as Narrator (voice)Documentary with fictional elements exploring issues around housing in the United Kingdom.
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Song 1
as SelfAn installation commissioned to be projected on the outer ring of the Hirshhorn Museum and...
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The Sluggard
as The SluggardA young woman lazes about while those around her try to maintain order. Produced in 1986 and...
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A Call to Arms
as uncreditedA woman dressed in armour sleeps on the floor of a dark, sunlit room. As she sleeps dreams and...
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Goliath: Playing with Reality
as Narrator (voice)After a decade of isolation in psychiatric institutions, Jon, a paranoid schizophrenic, finds...
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Depuis le Jour
as uncreditedDerek Jarman's interpretation of the aria 'Depuis le jour' from the final act of Gustave...
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Durmiente
as uncreditedDurmiente shows Tilda Swinton, the lead actress of Memoria, sleeping in a bedroom as the shadows...
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Volcano Saga
as GudrunThis short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic...
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Faceless
as Narrator (voice)In an eerily familiar city, a calendar reform has dispensed with the past and the future,...
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Chroma
as uncreditedOn the afternoon of September 22nd, 2023, sunny, in the Summer Palace, in the glowing, colorful...
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One Water
as uncreditedTilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film...
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The Boys
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What If...?
as The Ancient One (voice)Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated...
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
as SelfSeth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...
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The Daily Show
as SelfThe World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as SelfPBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through...
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What We Do in the Shadows
as TildaA documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in...
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Marvel Studios Legends
as The Ancient One (archive footage) (uncredited)Revisit the epic heroes, villains and moments from across the MCU in preparation for the stories...
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Made in Hollywood
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Fantasmas
as Water (voice)Julio Torres spins a fantastical tale of when he lost a gold oyster earring. In his search to...
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Fantasmas
as WaterJulio Torres spins a fantastical tale of when he lost a gold oyster earring. In his search to...
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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Ophelia (voice)An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by...
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Getting On
as ElkeDarkly comic series about life on a hospital ward and a nursing team who have to get on with the...
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Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
as Narrator (voice)As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on...
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Your Cheatin' Heart
as Cissie CrouchIn this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country...
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Galapagos
as Self - PresenterThe history of these beautiful Islands from their creation as uprising lava to their being...
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Women, War & Peace
as Narrator (voice)What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women...
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Zastrozzi: A Romance
as JuliaIn a heady tale of revenge and obsession, the outlaw Zastrozzi, assisted by courtesan, Matilda,...
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