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Byline: Eve Macsweeney
Anybody who has ever read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will recall with a shudder the ominous ice queen, beguiler of children, destroyer of animals, and incarnation of evil disseminated beneath the sugar coating of Turkish delight. Who better to play her on-screen than Tilda Swinton, the stately British actress whose ability to transform herself into extreme and iconic figures-aided by the extremes of her appearance-has put her in her own category of actress as performance artist? When you watch Swinton in roles that have included men, women, androgynes (and, in Sally Potter's Orlando, all three), and, most recently, the angel ...