Alexandra Byrne Biography, Age, Career, Husband, Films and Awards

Alexandra Byrne Biography

Alexandra Byrne, born Alexandra J. Byrne, is an English Costume Designer. She has created costumes for various films including  Persuasion, Hamlet, Elizabeth, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Finding Neverland, The Phantom of the Opera, and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Her work is mostly focused on historical period dramas. 

Recently, she has also created costumes for various Marvel Cinematic Universe characters. She last worked with Marvel in Doctor Strange in 2016.

Alexandra Byrne Age

Her exact date of birth is not known, except that it was in 1960 in Amounderness, Lancashire. That would put her at an age of around 58-59 as of February 2019.

Alexandra Byrne Family

Details of her personal life and past are not provided. Her parents and siblings are unknown. We only know that she grew up around many artistic influences.

Alexandra Byrne Husband

She got married to Simon Shepherd, an English Actor, in 1980 in the town of  Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England.

Alexandra Byrne Career

Initially, she wanted to become an architect and design theatre sets. She first encountered costume design while at the English National Opera. In the 1989 comedy play Some Americans Abroad, she oversaw both scenery and costumes of characters. This put her at a dilemma on what to choose to go on with for the rest of her life. She later figured it out and chose costume design.

Her first actual role in costume design was in the BBC film Persuasion. She also worked with Roger Mitchell, a director, on Buddha Of Suburbia and Some Americans Abroad. Her first film, Persuasion, earned her the British Academy Television Award for Costume Design. Later, she worked with director Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet and earned a nomination to the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

In 1998, she participated in the film Elizabeth. For this, she earned another Academy Award nomination for the same. Her work in the 2004 film Finding Neverland again garnered her a nomination for the same Academy Award. She deigned in the film Phantom Of The Opera in 2004. Three years later, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the sequel to Elizabeth. Her role here won her the same Academy Award she had been nominated for three times already.

From 2011, much of her focus went to designing costumes for Marvel. She began with Thor in 2011 directed by the same directed she worked with in Hamlet (1996) and Sleuth (2007), Kenneth Branagh. Next, she worked in The Avengers in 2012, Guardians Of The Galaxy in 2014, Avengers: Age Of Ultron in 2015, and 2016’s Doctor Strange.

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Alexandra Byrne Films

Alexandra Byrne Awards

• Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
• British Academy Television Award for Best Costume Design.