Mary Zophres

Personal Info

Known For Costume & Make-Up

Gender Female

Birthday 1964-03-23 (60 years old)

Mary Zophres

Biography

Mary Zophres is an American costume designer. In a career spanning over three decades, she is recognised for her prolific work across independent films and blockbusters. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design four times. Zophres is best known for her collaborations with directors such as the Coen brothers, Steven Spielberg, and Damien Chazelle. Zophres was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Her father was born in Ioannina, Greece. She graduated from Vassar College with degrees in art history and studio art. After graduation, Zophres moved to New York City and began her career in fashion, which included stints for Norma Kamali and Esprit, among others. She first went into film production, being the extras wardrobe supervisor on Oliver Stone's 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July. She worked under costume designer Judy L. Ruskin, who first tasked her to sort through and organise massive piles of thrifted buy-by-the-pound clothing into categories: '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then asked her to return another day. Zophres subsequently worked as an associate costume designer for Ruskin on three more films, including the 1991 film City Slickers. Zophres moved to Los Angeles and began a professional relationship with designer Richard Hornung. She worked for him on several films, including the Coen brothers's 1994 film The Hudsucker Proxy. During the preproduction of Coen's 1996 film, Fargo Hornung felt ill and couldn't finish the project. He recommended Zophres instead. She continued a creative partnership with the Coen brothers on all of their subsequent films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Zophres, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Costume & Make-Up

2026
The Mandalorian & Grogu

as Costume Design

2024
Fly Me to the Moon

as Costume Design

2022
Babylon

as Costume Design

2021
The Tragedy of Macbeth

as Costume Design

2020
Antebellum

as Costume Designer

2018
First Man

as Costume Design

2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

as Costume Designer

2017
Battle of the Sexes

as Costume Design

2016
Hail, Caesar!

as Costume Design

2016
La La Land

as Costume Design

2014
Interstellar

as Costume Design

2013
Inside Llewyn Davis

as Costume Design

2013
Gangster Squad

as Costume Design

2012
People Like Us

as Costume Design

2011
Cowboys & Aliens

as Costume Design

2010
Iron Man 2

as Costume Design

2010
True Grit

as Costume Design

2009
A Serious Man

as Costume Design

2008
Burn After Reading

as Costume Design

2007
Lions for Lambs

as Costume Design

2007
No Country for Old Men

as Costume Design

2006
Smokin' Aces

as Costume Design

2005
Bewitched

as Costume Design

2004
The Terminal

as Costume Design

2004
The Ladykillers

as Costume Design

2003
View from the Top

as Costume Design

2003
Intolerable Cruelty

as Costume Design

2002
Catch Me If You Can

as Costume Design

2002
Moonlight Mile

as Costume Design

2001
The Man Who Wasn't There

as Costume Design

2001
Ghost World

as Costume Design

2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

as Costume Design

1999
Thick as Thieves

as Costume Design

1999
Any Given Sunday

as Costume Design

1998
1998
Where's Marlowe?

as Costume Designer

1998
The Big Lebowski

as Costume Design

1998
Paulie

as Costume Design

1998
God Said, 'Ha!'

as Costume Design

1997
Playing God

as Costume Design

1997
Digging to China

as Costume Design

1996
Fargo

as Costume Design

1996
Kingpin

as Costume Design

1996
The Last of the High Kings

as Costume Design

1995
Bushwhacked

as Costume Design

1994
PCU

as Costume Design

1994
Dumb and Dumber

as Costume Design

1991
City Slickers

as Assistant Costume Designer