Tilda Swinton does on 5th November - check out the tribute to this Birthday Girl turning 55 at the end of this feature.
Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!
Sunday 1st November
- Toni Collette - Born 1972, turns 43 - Actress | Producer
- Lyle Lovett - Born 1957, turns 58 - Actor | Singer | Songwriter
- Robert Luketic - Born 1973, turns 42 - Director
Monday 2nd November
- David Schwimmer - Born 1966, turns 49 - Actor | Producer | Director
- Stephanie Powers - Born 1942, turns 73 - Actress | Producer
Tuesday 3rd November
- Kate Capshaw - Born 1953, turns 62 - Actress | Producer
- Roseanne Barr - Born 1952, turns 63 - Actress | Producer | Writer
- Gary Ross - Born 1956, turns 59 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Dolph Lundgren - Born 1957, turns 58 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
- Dylan Moran - Born 1971, turns 44 - Actor | Writer
Wednesday 4th November
- Matthew McConaughey - Born 1969, turns 46 - Actor
- Sean 'Puff Diddy' Combs - Born 1969, turns 46 - Singer | Songwriter | Producer | Actor
- Ralph Macchio - Born 1961, turns 54 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
- Loretta Swit - Born 1937, turns 78 - Actress
Thursday 5th November
- Tilda Swinton - Born 1960, turns 55 - Actress | Producer | Writer
- Famke Janssen - Born 1964, turns 51 - Actress | Producer | Writer | Director
- Tatum O'Neal - Born 1963, turns 52 - Actress
- Robert Patrick - Born 1958, turns 57 - Actor | Producer
- Sam Rockwell - Born 1968, turns 47 - Actor | Producer
- Sam Shepard - Born 1943, turns 72 - Actor | Writer
Friday 6th November
- Ethan Hawke - Born 1970, turns 45 - Actor | Writer | Director
- Vince Colosimo - Born 1966, turns 49 - Actor
- Adam Devine - Born 1983, turns 32 - Actor | Writer | Producer
- Lori Singer - Born 1957, turns 58 - Actress
- Thandie Newton - Born 1972, turns 43 - Actress
- Sally Field - Born 1946, turns 69 - Actress | Producer | Director
- Emma Stone - Born 1988, turns 27 - Actress
Saturday 7th November
- Morgan Spurlock - Born 1970, turns 45 - Writer | Producer | Director
Katherine Matilda 'Tilda' Swinton was born in London, England to mother Judith Balfour, an Australian, and father Major General John Swinton, and Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire. Her family history can be traced back to The Middle Ages, and hers is one of only three families able to track their unbroken land rights and ancestry dating back to the time before The Norman Conquests. Swinton was privately educated at the independent schools of Queen's Gate School in London, West Heath School in Sevenoaks (where she was classmates with Lady Diana Spencer [aka Princess Diana]) and at Fettes College in Edinburgh. In 1983 she graduated from New Hall College at Cambridge University with a degree in Political and Social Sciences. Whilst at College she joined the Communist Party and then the Scottish Socialist Party, and she began stage acting too in college productions.
His premature death left a massive void in Swinton's life from which it took her a long time to fully recover. During that time however, she made 'Orlando' in 1992 for Writer and Director Sally Potter, for which both the Actress and the Director won numerous Awards on the international film circuit. 'Orlando' allowed Swinton to explore her interest in gender presentation and androgyny and from that point onward and throughout her career to the present day, she has dipped in and out of small independent film fare and those more main stream, worked on foreign language offerings, with new emerging Directors, and across multiple genres as old, young, male, female, immortal and otherworldly characters.1996 saw 'Female Perversions' with 'Conceiving Ada' in 1997, Tim Roth's Directed 'The War Zone' in 1999 with Ray Winstone and Colin Farrell, and 'The Protagonists' that same year, which saw out the decade.
As the new decade turned over there was Danny Boyle's 'The Beach' in 2000 with Leonardo DiCaprio, and Cameron Crowe's 2001 'Vanilla Sky' with an all star cast lead by Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz. Spike Jonze Directed Swinton thereafter in the 2002 'Adaptation' with Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper. The following year brought Norman Jewison's 'The Statement' with Michael Caine, Alan Bates, and Jeremy Northam. 2005 saw the supernatural horror fantasy comic book telling of 'Constantine' with Keanu Reeves, Shia LaBeouf and Djimon Hounsou.2005 also saw Swinton's first outing as 'The White Witch' in 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series with 'The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe'. She reprised her role in 2008's 'Prince Caspian' and again in 2010 for 'The Voyage of the Dawn Trader'.
In between there was her Oscar winning role alongside George Clooney in Tony Gilroy's 'Michael Clayton' in 2007. 2008 was a busy year with 'Narnia' as well as 'Burn After Reading' with George Clooney again, and Brad Pitt for the Coen Brothers Directing, and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' with Brad Pitt again too, and Cate Blanchett and Directed by David Fincher. 'Limits of Control' and 'I am Love' saw out the decade with the last (so far) 'Narnia' instalment in 2010.
The last five years have been equally busy in which we have seen 'We Need To Talk About Kevin', 'Moonrise Kingdom' for Wes Anderson with whom he would work again on 2014's 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'. Then there was 'Only Lovers Left Alive' with Tom Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska and for Director Jim Jarmusch, and then the excellent 'Snowpiercer' and 'The Zero Theorem' in the meantime before this years 'Trainwreck' and 'A Bigger Splash'.
Next up is 'Hail, Caesar' for the Coen Brothers once again and also starring George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes and Josh Brolin and a whole heap of big name talent, and currently in post-production for a 2016 release. In pre-production for 2016 too is 'Okja' for Korean Director Joon-ho Boon for whom she worked on 'Snowpiercer' and the further expansion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 'Doctor Strange' also for 2016 and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Swinton has 71 Acting credits to her name, six Producer credits, three Writing credits and one for Directing for the documentary 'The New Ten Commandments' in 2008. She has an Academy Award and a BAFTA win for Best Supporting Actress for 'Michael Clayton' and a further 56 award wins and another 121 nominations including three Golden Globes and two other BAFTA's.Swinton has worked with performance art in a live installation in London; with fashion designers and houses and has been often lauded as one of top world's best dressed women; and she has sat on the Jury of the Berlin, Venice, Moscow, Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals. She also founded her own, in and around Scotland; has appeared in music video clips for Orbital and David Bowie and now lives in Scotland with her partner of eleven years Sandro Kopp with her twins Honor and Xavier born in October 1997 to her former partner, Scottish playwright John Byrne.
Tilda Swinton - diverse acting range, unpredictable, experimental, quirky, daringly different, ageing beautifully and gracefully and very much in demand - Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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