---
name: "Barbara Kidd"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/barbara-kidd"
fi1m_id: "barbara-kidd"
tmdb_id: 1397217
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T15:49:09.802668+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Barbara Kidd

## Identity

Barbara Kidd

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/barbara-kidd
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** barbara-kidd
- **TMDB ID:** 1397217
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1397217

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 1963–2008
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 81 (1), 1990s 87 (1), 2000s 76 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action & Adventure 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1397217

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md) (81)
- **BritBox:** [*Little Dorrit*](https://film.one/tv/little-dorrit.md) (76)

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## Biography

Barbara Kidd is a British costume designer whose credits include the feature film *Nil by Mouth* (1997), directed by Gary Oldman.

She has worked extensively in British television, with credits on the original *Doctor Who* series in the 1970s and 1980s, and on the revived series including *Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol* (2010). Other notable work encompasses the miniseries *Little Dorrit* (2008), *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby* (2001) and *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* (2015), as well as the films *Ladies in Lavender* (2004) and *Paranoid* (2000).

Kidd received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for *Little Dorrit*, and a BAFTA Television Craft Award for *Nicholas Nickleby*.

*Sources: unitedagents.co.uk, imdb.com, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Little Dorrit* (2008), Fi1m 76, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-dorrit.md)
- *Nil by Mouth* (1997), Fi1m 87, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/nil-by-mouth.md)
- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Traitors* (2019), series, Costume Design
- *The Secret Agent* (2016), series, Costume Designer
- *Away* (2016), Costume Design
- *Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol* (2010), Costume Design
- *Little Dorrit* (2008), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/little-dorrit.md)
- *Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story* (2008), Costume Design
- *Ladies in Lavender* (2004), Costume Design
- *Sparkling Cyanide* (2003), Costume Design
- *Sons & Lovers* (2003), Costume Design
- *Sunday* (2002), Costume Designer
- *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby* (2001), Costume Designer
- *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby* (2001), series, Costume Designer
- *Paranoid* (2000), Costume Design
- *Nil by Mouth* (1997), Costume Design — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/nil-by-mouth.md)
- *A Dance to the Music of Time* (1997), series, Costume Design
- *Tangier Cop* (1997), Costume Design
- *Eskimo Day* (1996), Costume Design
- *The Confessional* (1995), Costume Design
- *The Vacillations of Poppy Carew* (1995), Costume Design
- *The Rainbow Thief* (1994), Costume Design
- *Comics* (1993), series, Costume Design
- *Framed* (1992), series, Costume Design
- *Tree of Hands* (1989), Costume Design
- *The Kitchen Toto* (1988), Costume Design
- *Consuming Passions* (1988), Costume Design
- *Tender Is the Night* (1985), series, Costume Design
- *Doctor Who: Kinda* (1982), Costume Design
- *A Christmas Carol* (1977), Costume Design
- *Jubilee 1977* (1977), series, Costume Design
- *Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks* (1975), Costume Design
- *Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment* (1975), Costume Design
- *Doctor Who: The Ark in Space* (1975), Costume Design
- *Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs* (1974), Costume Design
- *Doctor Who: The Green Death* (1973), Costume Design
- *Doctor Who: Frontier in Space* (1973), Costume Design
- *Doctor Who* (1963), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

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