About Schmidt 2002 (FRA) premiere
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Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through the '00s.
Nicholson was born on April 22, 1937, in Neptune, New Jersey. He was raised believing that his grandmother was his mother, and that his mother, June Frances Nicholson, a showgirl, was his older sister. He discovered the truth in 1975 from a Time magazine journalist who was researching a profile on him. His real father is believed to have been either Donald Furcillo, an Italian American showman, or Eddie King (Edgar Kirschfeld), born in Latvia and also in show business. Jack's mother's ancestry was Irish, and smaller amounts of English, German, Scottish, and Welsh.
Nicholson made his film debut in a B-movie titled The Cry Baby Killer (1958). His rise in Hollywood was far from meteoric, and for years, he sustained his career with guest spots in television series and a number of Roger Corman films, including The Little Shop of Horrors (1960).
Nicholson's first turn in the director's chair was for Drive, He Said (1971). Before that, he wrote the screenplay for The Trip (1967), and co-wrote Head (1968), a vehicle for The Monkees. His big break came with Easy Rider (1969) and his portrayal of liquor-soaked attorney George Hanson, which earned Nicholson his first Oscar nomination. Nicholson's film career took off in the 1970s with a definitive performance in Five Easy Pieces (1970). Nicholson's other notable work during this period includes leading roles in Roman Polanski's noir masterpiece Chinatown (1974) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which he won his first Best Actor Oscar.
The 1980s kicked off with another career-defining role for Nicholson as Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Shining (1980). A string of well-received films followed, including Terms of Endearment (1983), which earned Nicholson his second Oscar; Prizzi's Honor (1985), and The Witches of Eastwick (1987). He portrayed another renowned villain, The Joker, in Tim Burton's Batman (1989). In the 1990s, he starred in such varied films as A Few Good Men (1992), for which he received another Oscar nomination, and a dual role in Mars Attacks! (1996).
Although a glimpse at the darker side of Nicholson's acting range reappeared in The Departed (2006), the actor's most recent roles highlight the physical and emotional complications one faces late in life. The most notable of these is the unapologetically misanthropic Melvin Udall in As Good as It Gets (1997), for which he won his third Oscar. Shades of this persona are apparent in About Schmidt (2002), Something's Gotta Give (2003), and The Bucket List (2007). In addition to his Academy Awards and Oscar nominations, Nicholson has seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. He also became one of the youngest actors to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement award in 1994.
Nicholson has six children by five different women: Jennifer Nicholson (b. 1963) from his only marriage to Sandra Knight, which ended in 1966; Caleb Goddard (b. 1970) with Five Easy Pieces (1970) co-star Susan Anspach, who was automatically adopted by Anspach's then-husband Mark Goddard; Honey Hollman (b. 1982) with Danish supermodel Winnie Hollman; Lorraine Nicholson (b. 1990) and Ray Nicholson (b. 1992) with minor actress Rebecca Broussard; and Tessa Gourin (b. 1994) with real estate agent Jennine Marie Gourin. Nicholson's longest relationship was the 17 nonmonogamous years he spent with Anjelica Huston; this ended when Broussard announced she was pregnant with his child.- Actress
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Since making her uncredited debut as a dancer in Beatlemania (1981), Gina Gershon has established herself as a character actress and one of the leading icons of American camp. For it was fourteen years after her movie debut that Gina made movie history as the predatory bisexual who was the leading light of a Las Vegas leg-line in director Paul Verhoeven's kitsch classic Showgirls (1995). Exploding out of a plaster-of-Paris volcano clad in nothing but body makeup and a G-string, Gina Gershon obtained cinema immortality. After Showgirls (1995), she solidified her reputation, playing a lesbian sexpot in the Wachowskis' neo-noir Bound (1996).
Gina Gershon was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, the last in a brood of three kids. Her mother, Mickey (Koppel), worked as an interior decorator, and her father, Stanley Gershon, was a salesman and worked in the import/export business. Her paternal grandparents were from Russian Jewish families, and her maternal grandparents were born in Holland and Belgium, both of them to Jewish families from Poland. Gina was raised in the San Fernando Valley, and got the acting bug early, appearing at the age of seven in a school production of Bye Bye Birdie (1963). Because of her acting ambitions, her parents moved to Beverly Hills so Gina could attend Beverly Hills High, where she indulged her acting jones by appearing in a student production of The Music Man (1962). Her first love, she says, is singing.
After graduating from high school in 1980, she attended Emerson College in Boston, but took a part in the musical "Runaways". She transferred to New York University, where her official biography says she studied philosophy and psychology, but she graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts, taking a bachelor of fine arts degree in drama in 1983. In New York City, while perfecting her craft, she co-founded the theater company Naked Angels with Helen Slater.
Her big-screen breakthrough came with a part in the 1986 "Brat Pack" teenage hit Pretty in Pink (1986). She also had parts in the Tom Cruise vehicle Cocktail (1988) and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Red Heat (1988). Of this period, she says, "One of my first gigs, a movie called Cocktail (1988), I found myself at 8 in the morning, in bed, practically naked, having to make out with Tom Cruise; hmmmm... movie business - so far, so good".
Citing Frank Sinatra's song "My Way" as an inspiration, she says that following Cocktail (1988), "I was fortunate enough to play many diversified roles in film, television and stage. Not always to the liking of my managers and agents, but I always did what I wanted...." She played Nancy Barbato Sinatra, Frank's first wife, in the TV miniseries Sinatra (1992).
Gina Gershon became a celebrity in Showgirls (1995). The following year, Gershon solidified her claim on second-tier stardom playing the calculating lesbian "Corky" in the crime movie Bound (1995). She never did capitalize on her mid-1990s breakthrough, but Gershon is established as a character actress and is never out of work, unlike most of her female peers who started out in the industry at the same time. Though no classic beauty, the talented thespian remains gainfully employed while many actresses of her vintage are out of work as she is possessed of a unique look and smoldering sex appeal that comes across on camera.
Gershon is versatile, too, as at home on stage as she is in front of the camera. After appearing in off-Broadway and regional theater productions, she made her Broadway debut as a replacement in Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret (1972) in January 2001. For six months, she played the key role of "Sally Bowles", returning that October to reprise the role for another month. In 2008, she once again appeared on Broadway in the revival of the farce "Boeing Boeing" on Broadway, which won the Tony award for Best Revival.
Gina Gershon also is a children's book writer. In 2008, Putmam Juvenile published her "Camp Creepy Time", a tale of a boy who discovers aliens at his summer camp, which she co-wrote with her brother, Dann Gershon. "Camp Creepy Time" recently was optioned by DreamWorks, which plans to turn it into a movie. In 2008, she also released "In Search Of Cleo", a CD featuring nine songs which she wrote or co-wrote.- Actress
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Lio was born on 17 June 1962 in Mangualde, Portugal. She is an actress, known for Jealousy (1991), The Dead Mother (1993) and The Last Mistress (2007).- Actress
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Sandrine Quétier was born on 30 December 1970. She is an actress, known for Il était une fois, une fois (2012), Joséphine, ange gardien (1997) and Jamais 2 sans toi (1996).- Writer
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Emmanuelle Gaume was born on 28 September 1968 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France. She is a writer and director, known for Alice Guy, Elle s'appelle Alice Guy (2017) and La fureur du samedi (1996).- Actor
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Quirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny Dangerously (1984), and Beetlejuice (1988), earned further acclaim for his dramatic portrayal of Bruce Wayne / Batman in Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), and since then, has moved easily between film genres, ranging from drama and romantic comedy to thriller and action.
Keaton was born Michael John Douglas on September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, to Leona Elizabeth (Loftus), a homemaker, and George A. Douglas, a civil engineer and surveyor. He is of Irish, as well as English, Scottish, and German, descent. Michael studied speech for two years at Kent State, before dropping out and moving to Pittsburgh. An unsuccessful attempt at stand-up comedy led Keaton to working as a TV cameraman in a cable station, and he came to realize he wanted to work in front of the cameras. Keaton first appeared on TV in several episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968).
He left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for TV. He began cropping up in popular TV shows including Maude (1972) and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979). Around this time, Keaton decided to use an alternative surname to remove confusion with better-known actor Michael Douglas. He looked into the "K"'s for surnames and thought it was inoffensive to chose 'Keaton'. His next break was scoring a co-starring role alongside Jim Belushi in the short-lived comedy series Working Stiffs (1979), which showcased his comedic talent and led to his co-starring role in Night Shift (1982). Keaton next scored the lead in the comedy hits Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny Dangerously (1984) , Gung Ho (1986), the Tim Burton horror-comedy Beetlejuice (1988), and The Dream Team (1989).
Keaton's career was given another major boost when he was again cast by Tim Burton, this time as the title comic book superhero, millionaire playboy/crime-fighter Bruce Wayne, in Batman (1989). Burton cast him because he thought that Keaton was the only actor who could portray someone who has the kind of darkly obsessive personality that the character demands. To say there were howls of protest by fans of the caped crusader comic strip is an understatement! Warner Bros. was deluged with thousands of letters of complaint commenting that comedian Keaton was the wrong choice for the Caped Crusader, given his prior work and the fact that he lacked the suave, handsome features and tall, muscular physicality often attributed to the character in the comic books. However, their fears were proven wrong when Keaton turned in a sensational performance, and he held his own on screen with opponent Jack Nicholson, playing the lunatic villain, "The Joker". Keaton's dramatic work earned widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike, and Batman (1989) became one of the most successful films of the year.
Keaton remained active during the 1990s, appearing in a wide range of films. Keen to diversify his work, Keaton starred as a psychotic tenant in Pacific Heights (1990), as a hard-working cop in One Good Cop (1991), and then donned the black cape and cowl once more for Batman Returns (1992). He remained in demand during the 1990s, appearing in a wide range of films, including the star-studded Shakespearian Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the drama My Life (1993), another Ron Howard comedy The Paper (1994), with sexy Andie MacDowell in Multiplicity (1996), twice in the same role, dogged Elmore Leonard character Agent Ray Nicolette, in Jackie Brown (1997) and Out of Sight (1998). He also played a killer in the mediocre thriller Desperate Measures (1998).
In the 2000s, Keaton appeared in several productions with mixed success, including Live from Baghdad (2002), First Daughter (2004), and Herbie Fully Loaded (2005). He also provided voices for characters in the animated films Cars (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Minions (2015).
He returned to major film roles in the 2010s, co-starring in The Other Guys (2010), RoboCop (2014) and Need for Speed (2014). Also that year, Keaton starred alongside Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), a film by 21 Grams (2003) and Biutiful (2010) director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. In the film, Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a screen actor, famous for playing the iconic titular superhero, who puts on a Broadway play based on a Raymond Carver short story, to regain his former glory. Keaton's critically praised lead performance earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy, and nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award, British Academy Film Award, and Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 2015, he played a journalist in Spotlight (2015), which, like Birdman, won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2016, he starred as Ray Kroc, the developer of McDonald's, in the drama The Founder (2016).
He is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.- Actor
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Anthony is an actor, comedian, singer, and tv host.
Anthony Kavanagh was born to Haitian parents on September 26 in the suburbs of Montreal, Canada. He made his stage debut in a high school talent show at the age of 14.
In 1989, he won the Best New Comic Award of the Juste Pour Rire Festival ( French Just For Laughs) in Canada. This award propelled him onto the Quebec show business scene. Generous and charismatic, he charmed English and French speaking audiences alike.
In 1992, the comedian opened for touring artists like Julio Iglesias and Nathalie Cole, and spent two years as Celine Dion 's opening act across Canada, in French and in English
1993 - Anthony Kavanagh got his own television talk show "...et Anthony", becoming the youngest talk show host in Quebec at age 23. He co-starred on the hit French Canadian comedy radio show "Les Midis Fous" on CKOI (No.1 in their time slot), then in a recurring role on the television series "Super sans plomb" (in French) and a starring role in the the made for tv movie "Voodoo Taxi" (in English) for CBC Canada.
1995 - He presented his first stand-up comedy show, "Kavanagh!" across Quebec. This first one-man-show was a huge success and garnered rave reviews. The same year he received the outstanding new talent award at the Montreux Comedy Festival in Switzerland. In December he once more opened for Celine Dion in Paris at the Paris-Bercy and Zenith arenas.
1998 - After taking a year to adapt and prepare his show "Kavanagh!" for France with famous French comedian, Pascal Légitimus, he debuted in Lyon right in the middle of the Soccer World Cup. Nevertheless, the show drew sold-out crowds, even turning away more than 150 people a day. Not bad for an unknown comedian. In the fall he took up residence at Theâtre Trévise in Paris for seven months to sold-out audiences. He was an instead hit.
The same year he lent his voice to the character Mushu for Disney animated films, Mulan (French-Canadian version).
1999 - He conquered Paris with "Kavanagh!". After less than one year in France, he was asked to do four shows at the Olympia, the most prestigious theater in France.
2001 - TF1, the biggest television network in Europe and the most popular in France, invited him to emcee, the "NRJ Music Awards" (equivalent to the MTV Music Awards) six years in a row. He welcomed major French and international stars like David Guetta, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Britney Spears, U2, Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Coldplay, Madonna, just to name a few. His charisma, outstanding presence, and combined North American and French culture helped make this show a must-see annual showcase to this day.
2003 - After 5 years, he ends his Kavanagh! Tour after 500 shows in 7 countries and 250 000 dvd sold.
2003 - Following in the footsteps of Richard Gere on film and Usher on Broadway, Anthony Kavanagh was chosen to interpret the well-known lawyer, Billy Flynn, in the French version of the famous musical comedy, "Chicago", in Montreal and Paris.
2004 - The biggest Hollywood studios called on him to lend his voice in the French version of animated hit movies such as :
Mulan(1998) by Disney : Mushu (French Canadian voice)
Home on the Range (2004) by Disney: Buck (French voice)
Madagascar 1 (2005), 2 (2008) & 3 (2012) by Dreamworks: Marty the zebra (French and French Canadian voice)
Happy Feet 1 (2006) & 2 (2011) by Warner Bros: Memphis and Lovelace (French voice)
The Princess and the Frog by Disney (2010): Ray (French and French Canadian voice)
2006 - Anthony Kavanagh launched his new show, an original concept "Les démons de l'Arkange", and the album of the same name. The show was a musical, a concert and stand up comedy show all rolled into one. The show debuted at the Grand Rex in Paris, and then moved to Théâtre des Variétés.
He hosted numerous primetime French tv shows on France 2 television network "The Dancing Show", "Fête de la Musique" and the "Symphonic Show" with the renowned "Night of Proms" orchestra.
2008 - After a 5 year break from doing stand up comedy, Anthony comes back to his first love with his new one man show "Anthonykavanagh.com" in Canada and France and Switzerland.
The acclaimed French filmmaker, Etienne Chatiliez (La vie est un long fleuve tranquille, Tatie Danielle, Le bonheur est dans le pré) gave him the leading male role in his latest film, "Agathe Clery" where he played Quentin Lambert, a French businessman.
2009 - He played the male lead as American GI, Gary Larochelle, in the made-for-TV movie by Philippe Niang, "Les amants de l'ombre". It was a huge hit, attracting over four million viewers.
2009 - Supporting role in the mini-series: "La Fille au Fond du Verre à Saké", by Emmanuel Sapolsky. Aired on Canal Plus. Homosexual French Canadian car designer living in Paris, Maxime Leroy.
2009 - He returned to the stage at Théâtre du Gymnase with his new stand up comedy show called "Ouate Else". He then took the show on tour across France and Switzerland in 2010.
2010 - He hosted the "Grand Gala at the Festival Grand Rire de Québec" (Quebec Comedy Festival which aired on the Canadian SRC network). Critics considered it as the best gala in the festival's eleven-year history.
2010/2011 - Anthony Kavanagh performed his brand new one-man-show "Anthony Kavanagh fait son coming out" at Bobino Theater in Paris during two and half month and is currently on tour throughout France and the French-speaking world. (Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Tunisia, French Caribbean, Monaco...) He also returned to television as host of a show he co-wrote and co-produced called "Nous avons les images", broadcast on Comédie Channel in France and Super Écran in Canada.
2011 - For the new season of "Fais pas ci, fais pas ça", (French hit tv series), Anthony Kavanagh guest stars, the new neighbor, sports agent, Chris Lenoir.
In June he hosted the "Grand Gala at the Festival Grand Rire de Québec" for the second time.
2012 - He will host the "Grand Gala at the Festival Grand Rire de Québec" for a third time.- Actress
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Élodie Bouchez was born on 5 April 1973 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. She is an actress and producer, known for Wild Reeds (1994), The Dreamlife of Angels (1998) and CQ (2001). She is married to Thomas Bangalter. They have two children.- Producer
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Paul Allen was born on 21 January 1953 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Hard Candy (2005), Ocean Warriors (2016) and Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale (2016). He died on 15 October 2018 in Seattle, Washington, USA.- Actor
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Adrien Nicholas Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, the only child of retired history professor Elliot Brody and Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy. He accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice, and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the camera. Adrien attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in New York.
Despite a strong performance in The Thin Red Line (1998), time constraints forced the director to edit out much of Adrien's part. In spite of his later work with Spike Lee and Barry Levinson, he never became the star many expected he would become until Roman Polanski called on him to play a celebrated Jewish pianist in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. He pulled off a brilliant performance in The Pianist (2002), drawing on the heritage and rare dialect of his Polish-born grandmother, as well as his father, who lost family members during the Holocaust, and his mother, who fled Communist Hungary as a child during the 1956 uprising against the Soviet Union.- Costume Designer
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Jaqueline De La Fontaine is known for Jack (1996), Palo Alto (2013) and Single White Female (1992). She is married to Peter Getty. She was previously married to Peter Getty and Gian-Carlo Coppola.- Actor
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Emanuel Levy is known for Somewhere (2010), The Reunion (2015) and The Evolution of Clint Eastwood (2008).- Producer
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Robert Shaye was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a producer, director, and actor, particularly known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). He has been married to Eva G. Lindsten since 1970. They have two children.- Producer
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Rolf Mittweg is known for Run Fatboy Run (2007), The New World (2005) and My Own Private Idaho (1991).- Producer
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Director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Peggy (Constantine) and George Payne, ran a Greek restaurant. His father is of Greek and German ancestry, and his mother is of Greek descent; the family name was originally Papadopoulos. He is the youngest of three brothers.
Alexander attended Stanford University, where he majored in Spanish and History. He then went on to study film at UCLA Film School. His university thesis film was screened at the Sundance film festival, which led to him being backed by Miramax to write and direct Citizen Ruth (1996). Payne prefers to have control over his movies, from scripts to cast.- Producer
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Mark Ordesky was born on 22 April 1963 in Sacramento County, California, USA. He is a producer and assistant director, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). He has been married to Rachel O'Connell since 2004. He was previously married to Jill Socolik.- Kenneth Turan was born on 27 October 1946 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer, known for Call Me Anna (1990) and Love Hollywood Style (2004).
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George Pimentel is known for The Corruptor (1999), The Sarah Silverman Program. (2007) and Focus (2001).- Actress
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The iconoclastic gifts of the highly striking and ferociously talented actress Tilda Swinton have been appreciated by art house crowds and international audiences alike. After her stunning Oscar-winning turn as a high-powered corporate attorney in the George Clooney starring and critically-lauded legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007), however, her androgynous looks and often bizarre appeal have been embraced by more mainstream crowds as well.
She was born Katherine Mathilda Swinton into a patrician Scottish military family on November 5, 1960, in London, England. Her mother, Judith Balfour, Lady Swinton (née Killen), was Australian, and her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, an army officer, was English-born. Her ancestry is Scottish, Northern Irish, and English, including a long tapestry of prominent Scottish ancestors. Educated at an English and a Scottish boarding school, Tilda subsequently studied Social and Political Science at Cambridge University and graduated in 1983 with a degree in English Literature.
During her tenure as a student, she performed countless stage productions and proceeded to work for a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company where she appeared in such productions as "Measure for Measure." The rebel insider her, however, was strong and she left the company after a year as her approach and interests began to shift dramatically. With a pungent taste for the unique and seldom tried, Tilda found some gender-bending stage roles come her way. She portrayed Mozart in Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri", and as a working class woman impersonating her dead husband during World War II, in Manfred Karge's "Man to Man," a role she later committed to film (Man to Man (1992)).
In 1985, the tall, slender performer with alabaster skin and carrot-topped hair began a professional association with gay experimental director Derek Jarman. She continued to live and work with the groundbreaking writer/director/cinematographer for the next nine years, involving herself in seven of his often notorious films. This quirky, highly fascinating alliance would produce such stark and radical turns as the Berlin International Film Festival winners Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), The Garden (1990) and Edward II (1991) (playing Isabella, in which she won "Best Actress" at the Venice Film Festival) and Wittgenstein (1993), as well as the films Soursweet (1988) (a movie with no spoken dialogue) and the Stockholm Film Festival Award winner Blue (1993).
Jarman succumbed to complications from AIDS in 1994. His untimely demise left a devastating void in Tilda's life for quite some time. Her most notable performance of her Jarman period, however, came from a non-Jarman film. For the vivid title role in Orlando (1992), her nobleman character lives for 400 years while changing sex from man to woman. The film, which Swinton spent years helping writer/director Sally Potter develop and finance, continues to this day to have a worldwide devoted fan following.
Over the years, Tilda has preferred art to celebrity, opening herself to experimental projects with new and untried directors and mediums, delving into the worlds of installation art and cutting-edge fashion. Consistently off-centered roles in Female Perversions (1996), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998), Teknolust (2002), Young Adam (2003), Broken Flowers (2005) and Béla Tarr's The Man from London (2007) have added to her mystique. Back in 1995, she delved into a performance art piece in the Serpentine Gallery, London, where she was put on display to the public for a week, asleep (or apparently so), in a glass case.
Following the birth of her twins in 1997, Tilda would leave lean for a time towards Hollywood mainstream filming. The thriller The Deep End (2001), earned her a number of critic's awards and her first Golden Globe nomination. Other visible U.S. pictures included The Beach (2000) with Leonardo DiCaprio, fantasy epic Constantine (2005) with Keanu Reeves, her Oscar-decorated performance in Michael Clayton (2007) and, of course, her iconic White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005).
Into the millennium, Tilda continued to amaze starring in the crime drama Julia (2008) and in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). She learned Italian and Russian for Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love (2009), starred in the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer (2013), and earned fine notice in Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem (2013). She also starred in the dark romantic fantasy drama Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) directed by Jim Jarmusch, had a small role in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), starred in Judd Apatow's comedy Trainwreck (2015), and played a rock star in Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash (2015).
Showing no signs of slowing up, Tilda continues to make creative, visual impressions in such films as the Coen Brothers' Hail, Caesar! (2016) where she reunited with Clooney and had a dual role playing twin journalists, and as the wise Asian teacher of Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in the Marvel Comics action film Doctor Strange (2016), while repeating the part of The Ancient One in Avengers: Endgame (2019). She gave another eccentric, unhinged performance in the action adventure message movie Okja (2017), played Betsy Trotwood in a contemporary telling of The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and teamed up again with writer/director Jim Jarmusch in the thoroughly offbeat fantasy horror comedy The Dead Don't Die (2019).- Producer
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Colin Callender Colin Callender an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award winning film and television producer and a Tony Award and Olivier Award winning theater producer, who founded the New York and London based production company Playground in 2012.
Callender began his career as stage manager at London's Royal Court Theater working with David Hare and Sam Shepard. He won his first Emmy for his work as producer of the television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for Channel Four in England.
Under his Playground banner, Callender has produced over 90 hours of prime time television garnering 16 Emmy nominations, 26 BAFTA nominations and 12 Golden Globe nominations, including winning a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries.
These include the Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning six-part miniseries Wolf Hall directed by Peter Kosminsky starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and Claire Foy for the BBC and Masterpiece PBS, Richard Eyre's acclaimed adaptation of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser for the BBC starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins. Other productions include Kenneth Lonergan's award-winning adaptation of E.M. Forster's Howards End for the BBC and Starz, Heidi Thomas's adaptation of Little Women for the BBC and Masterpiece on PBS, Richard Eyre's acclaimed adaptation of King Lear starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson for BBC and Amazon Prime Video.
Most recently Callender has produced the critically acclaimed re-make of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small which played on the UK's Channel 5 and Masterpiece PBS to record-breaking audiences.
As the long-time president of HBO Films, Callender was responsible for an unprecedented award- winning slate of movies and miniseries, including Mike Nichols' celebrated adaptation of Angels in America starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson, the Tom Hanks produced John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, and Gus van Sant's Elephant, winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
On Broadway Callender's recent productions include: the Tony and Olivier-Winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Nora Ephron's Tony nominated Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks in his Broadway debut, Harvey Fierstein's Tony-nominated Casa Valentina, the Tony Award-winning revival of musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Jez Butterworth's The River starring Hugh Jackman, the critically-acclaimed production of Macbeth starring Ken Branagh at The Park Avenue Armory in New York, and the Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen.
Callender is a Trustee of the New York Public Theater and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He received a knighthood from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in the 2016 New Year's Honours list for his services to British film, theater and television in the US.