actress of the day; tilda swinton

i coincidentally came across THIS today as well. Queen of Scots

i have always found her beautiful, yes, if not androgynous. like so very few in her profession she takes risks. she's not afraid to be seen as less than glamorous on camera. i admire that. oh, please note she has collaborated with andy goldsworthy, named artist of the day in my blog a few weeks ago.


A Powerful Presence On-Screen, Tilda Swinton Eschews Regal Airs Off It
By Ann Hornaday Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 25, 2005; Page N01
"It's all about the Goldsworthys."
Tilda Swinton's laugh is only slightly rueful as she winds up a photo session in front of "Roof," sculptor Andy Goldsworthy's installation of stacked-slate domes at the National Gallery of Art. While Swinton, who like Goldsworthy lives in Scotland, poses in front of the contemplative mounds, her feet occasionally grazing their surface, it's clear that the museum's curators and security personnel are far more excited about the well-being of the art than the mere presence of a celebrity.
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Of course, it doesn't help that Swinton, 44, exudes not one whiff of actressy self-regard. In town to promote her new movie, "Thumbsucker," which opens Friday, the muse of artists and fashion designers alike keeps a low profile in the hushed museum, stopping only once to sign an autograph. She describes her fan base as a "secret handshake society," and it's true that, since making a stunning debut in Derek Jarman's "Caravaggio" in 1986, then delivering similarly potent performances in Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" and the post-feminist parable "Female Perversions," she has garnered a following composed of the discriminating and passionate few, filmgoers whose admiration of Swinton borders on worship of her patrician, androgynous beauty and keen intelligence.
But that has changed in recent years, as Swinton has begun to appear in bigger, or as she calls them, "industrial" films. Once a sort of mascot of independent film at its most intellectual and adventurous, Swinton has become a memorable presence in movies as diverse as the journalistic thriller "Adaptation," the sci-fi drama "Vanilla Sky" and the comic book fantasy "Constantine."
Swinton's co-stars in those films were Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves, respectively, and the fact that hers is increasingly mentioned in the same breath as such marquee names comes as something of a surprise to her fans.................