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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1949-07-07 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Ellen Mirojnick

Biography:

Ellen Mirojnick (born 7 July 1949 in New York City) is an American costume designer. She is a frequent collaborator of actor Michael Douglas, having overseen the costume design for the films Fatal Attraction (1987), Wall Street (1987), Basic Instinct (1992), A Perfect Murder (1998), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) and Behind the Candelabra (2013). The wardrobe she created for Gordon Gekko's character inspired a fashion trend in the late 1980s and early 1990s for boldly patterned ties, sleek suits, crisp white shirts, and colourful suspenders in men's business wear. She has also been a frequent collaborator of directors Jan de Bont and Paul Verhoeven, acting as costume designer on de Bont's films Speed (1994), Twister (1996) and The Haunting (1999), as well as Verhoeven's films Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Starship Troopers (1997) and Hollow Man (2000).

She won an Emmy and a Costume Designers Guild Award in 2013 for her work on the biopic Behind the Candelabra. In 2016, she was given the Career Achievement Award by the Costume Designers Guild. In 2017, she gained further praise for her work on the biographical musical drama film The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman, which garnered her a nomination for Excellence in Period Film with the Costume Designers Guild. In 2023, Mirojnick received acclaim for her costume design in Christopher Nolan's epic biographical thriller film Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr., for which Mirojnick received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design and a BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design.

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Known For

Acting

2017

2006

1984

Reckless as Physics Teacher

Costume & Make-Up

2026

The Odyssey as Costume Design

2025

Black Bag as Costume Design
The Gorge as Costume Design

2023

Oppenheimer as Costume Design

2022

Kimi as Costume Design

2021

Cinderella as Costume Design
Cinderella as Costumer

2020

Let Them All Talk as Costume Design

2019

The Laundromat as Costume Design

2017

The Greatest Showman as Costume Design
Logan Lucky as Costume Design
Good Morning as Costume Design
First They Killed My Father as Costume Design

2015

By the Sea as Costume Design

2014

Need for Speed as Costume Design
The Maya Rudolph Show as Costume Design
Beyond the Reach as Costume Consultant
And So It Goes as Costume Design
The Knick as Costume Design

2013

Behind the Candelabra as Costume Design
Gilded Lilys as Costume Design
Odd Thomas as Costume Consultant

2012

First Point as Costume Design
GCB as Costume Design

2011

Sasha Grey as Costume Design
Lindsay Lohan as Costume Design

2010

2009

G-Force as Costume Design
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as Costume Design

2008

Cloverfield as Costume Design
Mirrors as Costume Design

2007

King of California as Costume Design

2006

Déjà Vu as Costume Design
The Sentinel as Costume Design
Failure to Launch as Costume Designer

2004

The Chronicles of Riddick as Costume Design
Twisted as Costume Design

2003

It Runs in the Family as Costume Design

2002

Unfaithful as Costume Design

2001

One Night at McCool's as Costume Design
Rat Race as Costume Design
America's Sweethearts as Costume Design
Don't Say a Word as Costume Design

2000

What Women Want as Costume Design
Hollow Man as Costume Design

1999

Mickey Blue Eyes as Costume Design
The Haunting as Costume Design

1998

A Perfect Murder as Costume Design

1997

Starship Troopers as Costume Design
Cinderella as Costume Design
Face/Off as Costume Design

1996

Twister as Costume Design
The Ghost and the Darkness as Costume Design
Mulholland Falls as Costume Design

1995

Strange Days as Costume Design
Showgirls as Costume Design

1994

Exit to Eden as Costume Design
Intersection as Costume Design
Speed as Costume Design

1993

Cliffhanger as Costume Design

1992

Basic Instinct as Costume Design
Chaplin as Costume Design

1991

Mobsters as Costume Design
Switch as Costume Design

1990

Jacob's Ladder as Costume Design
Narrow Margin as Costume Design

1989

Always as Costume Design
Black Rain as Costume Design

1988

Cocktail as Costume Design
Talk Radio as Costume Design

1987

Fatal Attraction as Costume Design

1986

Nobody's Fool as Costume Design

1984

The Flamingo Kid as Costume Design
Reckless as Costume Design

1981

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter as Costume Design

1978

French Quarter as Costume Design