Tilda is the German-Scandinavian short form of Matilda — from the Old High German *Mahthildis*, maht (might) + hild (battle). **Tilda Swinton (born Katherine Matilda Swinton, 1960)** — **British actress; Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for *Michael Clayton* (2007); the first major actress to play a male character (Orlando in Sally Potter's 1992 film of Virginia Woolf's *Orlando*) and one of the very few to play multiple characters in a single film (three roles in *Suspiria* 2018)**. **Long collaboration with Wes Anderson (*The Grand Budapest Hotel*, *Asteroid City*)**. **BAFTA Fellowship (2020)**. **Educated at Cambridge; in 2012 staged a five-week installation *The Maybe* at MoMA where she slept inside a glass box during museum hours**. **"Tilda" Lindstrom** is a top Swedish rice brand. **Saint Matilda of Quedlinburg** — 10th-century German queen.
Subject of countless avant-garde cinema profiles.
Tilda reduces to five — the number of avant-garde.