Mary Zophres

Mary Zophres earned a degree in art history and studio art from Vassar College before beginning her professional career working in the fashion industry for Norma Kamali and Esprit. She began working in the film industry as the extras wardrobe supervisor on Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July.

Mary Zophres has been the costume designer on several movies for Steven Spielberg including The Terminal; Catch Me If You Can, which brought her a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award nomination for Best Costume Design; and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Hail, Caesar! was her 13th consecutive collaboration with the Coen brothers as costume designer, following Fargo; The Big Lebowski; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; The Man Who Wasn't There; Intolerable Cruelty; The Ladykillers; No Country for Old Men; Burn After Reading; A Serious Man; True Grit; and Inside Llewyn Davis. Earlier credits include the assistant costume designer for the Coen brothers on The Hudsucker Proxy.

Zophres' other film credits as costume designer include the Farrelly brothers' Dumb & Dumber, Kingpin and There's Something About Mary; Timothy Hutton's Digging to China; Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday; Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World; Brad Silberling's Moonlight Mile; Bruno Barreto's View From the Top; Nora Ephron's Bewitched; Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces; Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs; Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad; and Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Zophres worked as costume designer on Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2, which starred Robert Downey, Jr. and on Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens; Alex Kurtzman's People Like Us; and more recently, La La Land for director Damien Chazelle.

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