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Jenny Beavan

Known For
Costume & Make-Up

Known Credits
5

Gender
Female

Birthday
November 15, 1950 (75 years old)

Place of Birth
London, England, UK

Jenny Beavan

Biography

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.

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Known For

Costume & Make-Up

2025The Choral...Costume Design
2025Dating Mark Silcox...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
2018The Nutcracker and the Four Realms...Costume Design
2018Christopher Robin...Costume Design
2018Patrick...Costume Design
2017Life...Costume Design
2017A Cure for Wellness...Costume Design
2016A United Kingdom...Costume Design
2015Mad Max: Fury Road...Costume Design
2015Child 44...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
2007Cranford...Costume Design
2006Amazing Grace...Costume Design
2006The Black Dahlia...Costume Design
2006The Amazing Grace...Costume Design
2005Casanova...Costume Design
2004Alexander...Costume Design
2003Timeline...Costume Design
2003Byron...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
1997Metroland...Costume Design
1996Emma...Costume Design
1996Jane Eyre...Costume Design
1995Sense and Sensibility...Costume Design
1995Jefferson in Paris...Costume Design
1994Black Beauty...Costume Design
1993The Remains of the Day...Costume Design
1993Swing Kids...Costume Design
1993The Blackheath Poisonings...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
1988The Deceivers...Costume Design
1988A Summer Story...Costume Design
1987Maurice...Costume Design
1986A Room with a View...Costume Design
1986Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy...Costume Design
1984The Bostonians...Costume Design
1983The Mikado...Costume Design
1982The Gondoliers...Costume Design
1982The Yeomen of the Guard...Costume Design
1982Trial by Jury...Costume Design
1982Cox and Box...Costume Design
1982Iolanthe...Costume Design
1982H.M.S. Pinafore...Costume Design
1982The Pirates of Penzance...Costume Design
1982Ruddigore...Costume Design
1982Patience...Costume Design
1982Treasure Island...Costume Design
1980Jane Austen in Manhattan...Costume Design
1979The Europeans...Costume Assistant
1978Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures...Costume Design
Late in Summer...Costume Design

Acting

2024Merchant Ivoryas Self
2024Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosaas Self
2009Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibilityas Self
2001The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journeyas Self
1978Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Picturesas Governess