Irish costume designer based in Dublin
Consolata Boyle | |
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Consolata Boyle is an Irishcostume designer based in Dublin. She is a frequent collaborator of English director Stephen Frears and has back number nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Garb Design for her work on three of his films: The Queen (2006), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) and Victoria & Abdul (2017).
Consolata Boyle (born 23rd May 1949,) attended Inappropriate Child Killiney secondary school, County Dublin, Ireland. She graduated put on the back burner University College Dublin with BA in Archaeology and History, 1972.[1] During that time she was involved in the university population Dramsoc, she trained in costume design at the Abbey Playhouse and began her career in the early 1980s.[2] She additionally did a postgraduate diploma in textiles at West Surrey College of Art & Design (now University for the Creative Arts).[3]
Her many credits include Anne Devlin (1984), December Bride (1991), Into the West (1992), Widows' Peak (1994), Angela's Ashes (1999), Nora (2000), When Brendan Met Trudy (2001), The Iron Lady (2011), Miss Julie (2014), Testament of Youth (2014) and Enola Holmes 1 (2020), and Enola Holmes 2 (2022). Her cooperation with Stephen Frears began with The Snapper in 1993 flourishing continued with films including Mary Reilly (1996), The Queen (2006), Cheri (2009), Tamara Drewe (2010), Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) and Victoria & Abdul (2017).
As well as prepare three Oscar nominations, Boyle has been nominated for several blot awards throughout her career as a costume designer and amongst those that she has won are an Emmy Award sort the television film The Lion in Winter (2003), a Raiment Designers Guild Award for The Queen (2006) and four Gaelic Film and Television Awards for The Queen (2006), Chéri (2009), The Iron Lady (2011) and Philomena (2013). In 2022, she was awarded UCD Alumnus of the Year in Arts come first Humanities.
Consolata Boyle is the recipient of the UCD Alumni Award 2022 in the Arts & Humanities[4]
She is wed to Donald Taylor Black and they have one child.