Name: Katherine Matilda Swinton
Date of birth: November 5th, 1960
Place of birth: London, England
Eye color: Green
Hair color: Red
Height: 5′ 11″ (180 cm)
Awards: 1 Golden Globe Nomination
Family: Spouse John Byrne and two children Xavior & Honor
Trivia:
- Appeared in the music video for Orbital’s “The Box” (circa 1997)
- Lives in Nairn, Scotland.
- Mother is Australian.
- Has three brothers.
- Daughter of Major-General Sir John Swinton, whose ancestral home has been within the family since the 9th century.
- Went to school with Princess Diana.
- While at Cambridge University, she appeared in student productions of plays such as “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “The Duchess of Malfi” and “The Comedy of Errors”.
- Since 2004, she has been in a relationship with Sandro Kopp, a painter from New Zealand. She continues to live, platonically, with John Byrne, with whom she brings up their two children.
- Lived in Germany when she was a child because her father was posted there.
- In the top ten of the 2008 International Best-Dressed List.
- Funded and held her own very successful Film Festival in her small Scottish highland home-town: The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams. A purely cinephile, glamour-free community event. For eight and a half days in August 2008, she personally introduced and showed an eclectic mix of classics and rare films from around the world. The admission price was 3 pounds for adults, 2 pounds for children or a plate of home-baked cakes.
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