17 Times Tilda Swinton Completely Transformed For a Role

Swinton returned to period films several years later, playing the gender-bending role of Orlando, an androgynous young nobleman with eternal youth who wakes up one morning as female. The Lady Orlando must then defend her inheritance and learn how to live. "Orlando" is loosely based on a Virginia Woolf novel, "Orlando: A Biography," which is a satirical history of English literature.