Jenny Beavan

Jenny Beavan is, to my mind, a storyteller who happens to work in fabric. Three Academy Awards for Best Costume Design is staggering, and the range is what floors me: she can conjure the dust-caked apocalypse of Mad Max: Fury Road and the refined restraint of period drama with equal authority. A London-born Briton honoured with an OBE, she famously turned up to an awards ceremony in a leather biker jacket, and that unpretentious streak only makes me admire her more. Still working at the top in her seventies, crowned with a 2025 lifetime achievement honour, she is the real, uncompromising article.

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Name (English)

Jenny Beavan

Name (Japanese)

ジェニー・ビーヴァン

Reading

じぇにー・びーゔぁん

Born

November 15, 1950 (age 75)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

costume designer / designer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

High school

Putney High School

Awards & achievements

• Emmy Award
• 1987 Academy Award for Best Costume Design
• 2016 Academy Award for Best Costume Design
• 2017 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• 2022 Academy Award for Best Costume Design

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jennybeavandesigns/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%20Beavan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436223

Tags

• costume designer
• designer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.