Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi in 'I Am Love' - The Top 10 Everything of 2010
No modern actress has an aura approaching Tilda Swinton's. Slim, pale and towering, keen of features and intellect, she invests her characters with an imperious mien and brings a fearless commitment to all her movies, whether big (she's the witch in the Narnia films and won a Supporting Actress Oscar for Michael Clayton) or avant-small (like Sally Potter's Orlando, in which she played a 400-year-old androgyne). Always willing to defile herself for her art, she will try anything and make it work. This year Swinton, 50, moved in the opposite direction: instead of down and dirty, she went regal and sensuous. To play the Russian-born wife of a Milanese plutocrat in Luca Guadagnino's swoony extramarital romance, she learned to speak Italian with a Slavic accent and located the passionate will beneath Emma's studied elegance. Another triumph for the daring, commanding, supreme film actress of our time.
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