Fiona Crombie Explained

Fiona Crombie (born c. 1973) is an Australian costume and production designer.^{[1] [2] [3]} She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Production Design for the period film The Favourite.^[4]

Crombie was born in Adelaide; when she was two, her family moved to Sydney where she attended Turramurra Public School.^[5] Crombie graduated in 1988^[6] from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and then became the resident designer at the Sydney Theatre Company.^[7]

Crombie is the daughter of film director Donald Crombie. She is married to Peter Knowles and the couple has two children.

Theatre

• Three Sisters, Sydney Theatre Company, 2001
• The Shape of Things, Sydney Theatre Company, January 2003
• Hedda Gabler, Sydney Theatre Company, July 2004; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, February 2006
• Journal of the Plague Year, Malthouse Theatre, April 2005
• The Ham Funeral, Malthouse Theatre Company, April 2005
• King Lear, Melbourne Theatre Company, July 2005
• The Cherry Orchard, Sydney Theatre Company, December 2005
• Moving Target (by Marius von Mayenburg), Adelaide Festival, February 2008; Malthouse Theatre, March 2008
• Hamlet, Bell Shakespeare, July 2008
• The Great (by Tony McNamara), Sydney Theatre Company, May 2008
• The City (by Clyde Fitch), Sydney Theatre Company, June 2009
• The Seven Stages of Grieving, Sydney Theatre Company, 2021

Filmography

• 2011: Snowtown
• 2012: Beaconsfield
• 2012: Dead Europe
• 2013: Top of the Lake
• 2014: Son of a Gun
• 2015: Macbeth
• 2015: Truth
• 2016: Una
• 2018: Mary Magdalene
• 2018: The Favourite
• 2019: The King
• 2021: Cruella
• 2023: Beau Is Afraid
• 2024: Mickey 17

Further reading

• News: Two of Us: Costume designer and Oscar nominee Fiona Crombie – Dad recognised the creative spirit in me. Jane Cornwell. The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 March 2019. 6 November 2021. none.

External links

• • • Fiona Crombie at HLA Management Australia

Notes and References

1. News: How an Australian created the Oscar-nominated look of The Favourite. Garry. Maddox. The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 February 2019. 4 November 2021.
2. Web site: The Favourites Oscar Nominated Production Designer Fiona Crombie on the Biggest Challenges. Deadline Hollywood. Anita. Busch. January 22, 2019. November 3, 2021.
3. Web site: Meet The Favourites Bafta-winning working mums. BBC News. Annabel. Rackham. February 16, 2019. November 3, 2021.
4. Web site: The 91st Academy Awards (2019) Nominees and Winners. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. November 3, 2021.
5. News: From Turramurra Public School to Oscar nominee, Fiona Crombie's North Shore beginnings. Alison Stephenson. The Daily Telegraph. Sydney. 25 February 2019. 6 November 2021.
6. Web site: NIDA alumni sweep up AACTA awards nominations. National Institute of Dramatic Art. Australia. 25 October 2019. 4 November 2021.
7. Web site: Australian Fiona Crombie marches toward Oscar. SBS News. Australia. 4 February 2019. 4 November 2021.