---
name: "Brian Froud"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brian-froud"
fi1m_id: "brian-froud"
imdb_id: "nm0296612"
tmdb_id: 961211
wikidata_id: "Q1117505"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "6 May 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T20:52:08.478793+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."
---

# Brian Froud

## Identity

Brian Froud

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brian-froud
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brian-froud
- **IMDb ID:** nm0296612
- **TMDB ID:** 961211
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1117505
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Froud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1117505, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296612/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/961211

Costume designer. Born 6 May 1947 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 6 May 1947, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 1979–2019
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 82 (1), 1980s 74 (1), 2010s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Froud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1117505, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296612/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/961211

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance*](https://film.one/tv/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Brian Froud is an English fantasy illustrator and conceptual designer. Born in 1947 in Winchester, Hampshire, he studied at Maidstone College of Art, graduating in 1971 with a diploma in graphic design.

He is known for the 1978 book *Faeries*, created with Alan Lee, and as conceptual designer for the Jim Henson films *The Dark Crystal* (1982) and *Labyrinth* (1986). Froud served as conceptual and costume designer on the 2019 Netflix series *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance*.

Froud is married to artist and puppet-maker Wendy Froud. Their son Toby Froud has worked as a puppeteer and creature fabricator on projects including the series.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, denofgeek.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Muppet Movie* (1979), Fi1m 82, as Additional Muppet Performer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-muppet-movie.md)

### Crew (2) — the average rests on these

- *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance* (2019), Fi1m 76, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance.md)
- *Labyrinth* (1986), Fi1m 74, Conceptual Design — [page](https://film.one/film/labyrinth.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance* (2019), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance.md)
- *Total Drama World Tour* (2010), series, as Harold
- *Labyrinth* (1986), Conceptual Design — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/labyrinth.md)
- *The Dark Crystal* (1982), Costume Design
- *Faeries* (1981), Book
- *The Muppet Movie* (1979), as Additional Muppet Performer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-muppet-movie.md)

## Gallery

- ![Fantasy artist Brian Froud following a Q&A at the Variant Stage on Day 4 of the 2012 New York Comic Con, Sunday October 14, 2012 at the Jacob K. Javits Conv](https://film.one/media/person/451104/gallery-cf641461c2f7.jpg) Fantasy artist Brian Froud following a Q&A at the Variant Stage on Day 4 of the 2012 New York Comic Con, Sunday October 14, 2012 at the Jacob K. Javits Conv — Luigi Novi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/10.14.12BrianFroudByLuigiNovi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brian Froud au château de Comper lors des Rencontres de l’imaginaire de Brocéliande de 2014.](https://film.one/media/person/451104/gallery-9e690d8c5695.jpg) Brian Froud au château de Comper lors des Rencontres de l’imaginaire de Brocéliande de 2014. — VIGNERON, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Brian_Froud_-_Rencontres_de_l%E2%80%99imaginaire_de_Broc%C3%A9liande_2014.JPG/1280px-Brian_Froud_-_Rencontres_de_l%E2%80%99imaginaire_de_Broc%C3%A9liande_2014.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 4 won

- Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration 2021: Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration (won)
- Inkpot Award 2001: Inkpot Award (won)
- Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration 1995: Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration (won)
- Hugo Awards 1995: Hugo Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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