Jenny Beavan
Costume & Make-Up · Acting
Born November 15, 1950, London, England, UK
Jenny Beavan OBE, RDI (born 1950) is an English costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognised for her prolific work across stage and screen. She has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, and an Olivier Award. Beavan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2017. Beavan came to prominence for her decade-long collaboration with John Bright on creating the costumes for Merchant Ivory Productions. She has received 12 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and has won three times for A Room with a View (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and Cruella (2021). She has also been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design ten times and had a record four wins for A Room With a View, Gosford Park (2001), Mad Max: Fury Road, and Cruella. On television, Beavan has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special five times, winning twice for Emma (1996) and Return to Cranford (2010). She has also received three nominations for the British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Costume Design. On stage, Beavan created costumes for numerous productions, including those of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the West End, and Broadway. She garnered the Tony Award for Best Costume Design nomination for the 2002 Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives. She has also received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for the 2001 London revival of Private Lives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jenny Beavan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- 2025Dating Mark Silcox — Costume Design
- 2025The Choral — Costume Design
- 2024Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — Costume Design
- 2023White Bird — Costume Design
- 2022Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris — Costume Design
- 2021Cruella — Costume Design
- 2020Dolittle — Costume Design
- 2019Mrs Lowry & Son — Costume Design
- 2018Christopher Robin — Costume Design
- 2018Patrick — Costume Design
- 2018The Nutcracker and the Four Realms — Costume Design
- 2017A Cure for Wellness — Costume Design
- 2017Life — Costume Design
- 2016A United Kingdom — Costume Design
- 2015Child 44 — Costume Design
- 2015Mad Max: Fury Road — Costume Design
- 2015Roald Dahl's Esio Trot — Costume Design
- 2012Gambit — Costume Design
- 2011Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — Costume Design
- 2010The King's Speech — Costume Design
- 2009Sherlock Holmes — Costume Designer
- 2008Defiance — Costume Design
- 2007Amazing Grace — Costume Design
- Cranford — Costume Design
- 2006The Amazing Grace — Costume Design
- 2006The Black Dahlia — Costume Design
- 2005Casanova — Costume Design
- 2004Alexander — Costume Design
- 2003Byron — Costume Design
- 2003Timeline — Costume Design
- 2002Possession — Costume Design
- 2002The Gathering Storm — Costume Design
- 2001Gosford Park — Costume Design
- 2000How Proust Can Change Your Life — Costume Designer
- 1999Anna and the King — Costume Design
- 1999Tea with Mussolini — Costume Design
- 1998EverAfter — Costume Designer
- 1998Metroland — Costume Design
- 1996Emma — Costume Design
- 1996Jane Eyre — Costume Design
- 1995Jefferson in Paris — Costume Design
- 1995Sense and Sensibility — Costume Design
- 1994Black Beauty — Costume Design
- 1993Swing Kids — Costume Design
- The Blackheath Poisonings — Costume Design
- 1993The Remains of the Day — Costume Design
- 1992Howards End — Costume Design
- 1992The Bridge — Costume Design
- 1991Impromptu — Costume Design
- 1991White Fang — Costume Design
- 1990Mountains of the Moon — Costume Design
- 1989Back Home — Costume Design
- 1988A Summer Story — Costume Design
- 1988The Deceivers — Costume Design
- 1987Maurice — Costume Design
- 1986A Room with a View — Costume Design
- Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy — Costume Design
- 1984The Bostonians — Costume Design
- 1983The Mikado — Costume Design
- 1982Cox and Box — Costume Design
- 1982H.M.S. Pinafore — Costume Design
- 1982Iolanthe — Costume Design
- 1982Patience — Costume Design
- 1982Ruddigore — Costume Design
- 1982The Gondoliers — Costume Design
- 1982The Pirates of Penzance — Costume Design
- 1982The Yeomen of the Guard — Costume Design
- 1982Treasure Island — Costume Design
- 1982Trial by Jury — Costume Design
- 1980Jane Austen in Manhattan — Costume Design
- 1979The Europeans — Costume Assistant
- 1978Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures — Governess, Costume Design
- Late in Summer — Costume Design
Appearances as themselves (4)
- 2024Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa — Self
- 2024Merchant Ivory — Self
- 2009Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility — Self
- 2001The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey — Self