Scottish actress Tilda Swinton began her career as a leading lady of European art cinema, working with directors like Derek Jarman, John Maybury and Sally Potter and earning acclaim as the gender-shifting lead in Potter’s Academy Award-nominated “Orlando” (1992). The edgy icon expanded into American filmmaking with a Golden Globe-nominated performance in “The Deep End” (2001) and experimental outings “Vanilla Sky” (2001) and “Adaptation” (2002). Swinton generally favored the more creative realm of independent filmmaking, but bigger productions were not immune to her captivating appeal and the
