Directed by:
Sally PotterScreenplay:
Sally PotterCinematography:
Aleksey RodionovCast:
Tilda Swinton, Toby Jones, Dudley Sutton, Toby Stephens, Viktor Stepanov, Heathcote Williams, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Billy Zane, Thom Hoffman (more)Plots(1)
A critical film in the history of British Cinema, Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's witty modernist novel took eight years to make it to the screen and is a meticulously crafted commentary on all things English as well as being a wonderfully romantic tale. Tilda Swinton stars as the eponymous hero who lives for 500 years and changes sex halfway. Granted a favour of immortality from Quentin Crisp's archetypal Queen Elizabeth I, Orlando proceeds to spend the next few centuries in search of love, life and adventure. (Transmission Films)
(more)Cast
![Tilda Swinton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/953/163953466_279600.jpg)
Tilda Swinton
UK
Best movies:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Blue (1993)
![Toby Jones](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/579/161579732_91b29d.jpg)
Toby Jones
UK
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
![Dudley Sutton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271776_8d3c70.jpg)
Dudley Sutton
UK
Best movies:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
Orlando (1992)
![Toby Stephens](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273068_fe1448.jpg)
Toby Stephens
UK
Best movies:
Perfect Strangers (2001) (series)
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Viktor Stepanov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
Deja vu (1990)
Okraina (1998)
Heathcote Williams
UK
Best movies:
The Legend of 1900 (1998)
Orlando (1992)
The Browning Version (1994)
![Lothaire Bluteau](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/681/162681879_d4481f.png)
Lothaire Bluteau
Canada
Best movies:
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
Orlando (1992)
Shot Through the Heart (1998) (TV movie)
![John Wood](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/696/158696098_b27b05.jpg)
![Billy Zane](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/777/162777757_5198b6.png)
Billy Zane
USA
Best movies:
Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Titanic (1997)
![Thom Hoffman](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276269_5e81c2.jpg)
Thom Hoffman
Netherlands
Best movies:
Dogville (2003)
Black Book (2006)
Orlando (1992)
Quentin Crisp
UK
Best movies:
Philadelphia (1993)
Orlando (1992)
Kojak: Flowers for Matty (1990) (TV movie)
Jimmy Somerville
UK
Best movies:
Orlando (1992)
![Simon Russell Beale](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/456/456144_e979d8.jpg)
Simon Russell Beale
Malaysia
Best movies:
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016) (theatrical recording)
Hamlet (1996)
![Charlotte Valandrey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/263/158263982_606e58.jpg)
Charlotte Valandrey
France
Best movies:
Orlando (1992)
Napoléon (2002) (series)
The Actress' Ball (2009)
![Robert Demeger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/036/677/36677363_f0b811.jpg)
Robert Demeger
UK
Best movies:
Black Beauty (1994)
Orlando (1992)
Wuthering Heights (1992)
![George Antoni](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/633/158633999_96b723.jpg)
George Antoni
Best movies:
Gormenghast (2000) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
![Cyril Lecomte](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/728/160728689_524ffe.png)
Cyril Lecomte
Best movies:
Orlando (1992)
The Stronghold (2020)
The Connection (2014)
![Roger Hammond](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/116/160116672_427531.jpg)
Roger Hammond
UK
Best movies:
The King's Speech (2010)
Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987) (TV movie)
The Way We Live Now (2001) (series)
![Jerome Willis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/383/161383483_e3fac6.jpg)
Jerome Willis
UK
Best movies:
Care (2000) (TV movie)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Barbara Hicks
UK
Best movies:
Death on the Nile (1978)
Brazil (1985)
Orlando (1992)