Jenny Beavan
British costume designer (born 1950)
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::summary British costume designer (born 1950) ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Jenny Beavan |
| honorific_suffix | OBE |
| image | Jenny Beavan.jpg |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | London, England |
| occupation | Costume designer |
| spouse | |
| children | 1 |
| yearsactive | 1978 — present |
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| name = Jenny Beavan | honorific_suffix = OBE | image = Jenny Beavan.jpg | birth_date = | birth_place = London, England | occupation = Costume designer | spouse = | children = 1 | yearsactive = 1978 — present
Jenny Beavan (born 1950) is a British costume designer. She has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Film Awards, two Emmy Awards, and an Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for three BAFTA Television Awards and a Tony Award. She was honored with the CDG Career Achievement Award in 2025. 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 various Royal Shakespeare Company, West End, and Broadway productions. She won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for the West End revival of the Noël Coward play Private Lives in 2001, and she received the Tony Award for Best Costume Design nomination the following year when the production was transferred to Broadway.
Early life
Beavan was born in London, England. Her father was a cellist, and her mother a viola player. She has a sister. She attended Putney High School, an independent girls' day school in Putney, London.
Career
Jenny Beavan is known for her work on Merchant Ivory films. In the 1970s, she worked on set design for London theatrical productions. Beavan was assistant to Judy Moorcroft on the 1979 film The Europeans, the first 'proper' Merchant-Ivory film that featured precise and authentic period costuming. This began her long relationship with Merchant Ivory productions.
She has frequently worked with costume designer John Bright, who runs the costume-rental house Cosprop, and credits him with educating her as she was starting out her career. She said she was helped by "just listening to him and learning from him, learning the history and the politics of clothing". Since then, the two have collaborated on more than ten films together and have shared six Oscar nominations.
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In 2016, Beavan won her 3rd BAFTA and 2nd Academy Award in George Miller's post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max: Fury Road.
Beavan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to drama production.
In June 2018, Beavan was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Arts University Bournemouth alongside dancer Darcey Bussell, graphic designer Margaret Calvert, OBE, and director and screenwriter Edgar Wright.
In 2022, Beavan nabbed her 4th BAFTA, as well as her 3rd Academy Award for Craig Gillespie's Disney live-action spin-off of Cruella.
Personal life
She has one daughter, Caitlin, a theatre producer born in 1985. They worked together on the West End theatre production of Third Finger Left Hand at Trafalgar Studios in 2013.
Filmography
Film
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Television
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| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures | with Purnima Agarwal |
| Also makes a cameo as Governess | ||
| Television film | ||
| 1980 | Holding the Fort | Episode: "Over a Barrel" |
| 1981 | A Fine Romance | 6 episodes |
| 1986 | Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy | 6 episodes |
| 1989 | Back Home | Television film |
| 1992 | The Blackheath Poisonings | 3 episodes |
| 1996 | Emma | Television film |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | |
| 2003 | Byron | 2 episodes |
| 2007 | Cranford | 5 episodes |
| 2009 | Return to Cranford | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Esio Trot | Television film |
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Awards and nominations
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Emmy Awards ::data[format=table]
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | Primetime Emmy Awards |
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| 1986 | Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special | Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (Episode: "Part 1") | |||
| 1997 | Emma | ||||
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | ||||
| 2008 | Cranford (Episode: "Part 1") | ||||
| 2010 | Return to Cranford (Episode: "Part 2") | ||||
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Laurence Olivier Awards ::data[format=table]
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Best Costume Design | Private Lives | ||
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Tony Awards ::data[format=table]
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Best Costume Design | Private Lives | ||
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;Honorary degrees ::data[format=table title="Name of school, year given, and name of degree"]
| School | Year | Degree | Ref. | Arts University Bournemouth | Girls' Day School Trust | Rose Bruford College | University of Huddersfield |
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| 2018 | Honorary Fellow | ||||||
| 2016 | Alumna of the Year | ||||||
| 2011 | Honorary Fellow | ||||||
| 2024 | Doctor of the University (Hon DUniv) | ||||||
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Other honours
- Beavan was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to drama production.
- Beavan was made a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) by the Royal Society of Arts in 2022.
Notes
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