Odile Dicks-Mireaux

Odile Dicks-Mireaux, who is fluent in French, studied theatre design at the Central School of Art and Design.  After leaving college she went on to work in fringe theatre with companies such as Pip Simmons and Belt and Braces.

Dicks-Mireaux joined the BBC in 1979 as an assistant.  In 1982 she became a designer in her own right designing the costumes for the Award winning series "Blackadder" starring Rowan Atkinson.  Other BBC projects include Jon Amiel's "Silent Twins;" Angela Pope's "Sweet As You Are;" and Warris Hussein's "Clothes In The Wardrobe" starring Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright and Julie Walters, for which she won an RTS Award for Best Costume Design.

In 1996 Dicks-Mireaux left the BBC to work freelance, since then she has worked consistently in both film and television.  Television work includes "Great Expectations" for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design; "Gormenghast" for which she was nominated for both BAFTA and RTS Awards for Best Costume Design; "The Lost Prince" for which she received an Emmy Award and an RTS Award for Best Costume Design; "The Deal" with director Stephen Frears; and most recently "The Hollow Crown, Richard II," directed by Rupert Goold, with Ben Wishaw and Rory Kinnear, for which she was again nominated for a Best Costume Design BAFTA.

Film credits include: BUFFALO SOLDIERS starring Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris and Anna Paquin, Stephen Frears' DIRTY PRETTY THINGS starring Audrey Tautou and Chiwetel Ejiofor; Fernando Meirelles' THE CONSTANT GARDENER starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, AN EDUCATION, her first collaboration with director Lone Scherfig, for which she received a BAFTA nomination, LONDON BOULEVARD, Roger Donaldson's THE BANK JOB starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows and ONE DAY starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.

More recently, Dicks-Mireaux has worked on BEL AMI starring Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas, QUARTET directed by Dustin Hoffman starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay and Michael Gambon, A LONG WAY DOWN directed by Pascal Chaumeil starring Aaron Paul, Toni Collette and Pierce Brosnan.

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