---
name: "Caroline Eselin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/caroline-eselin"
fi1m_id: "caroline-eselin"
imdb_id: "nm1000803"
tmdb_id: 32474
wikidata_id: "Q1116225"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T09:00:07.679715+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."
---

# Caroline Eselin

## Identity

Caroline Eselin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/caroline-eselin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** caroline-eselin
- **IMDb ID:** nm1000803
- **TMDB ID:** 32474
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1116225
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1116225, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1000803/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32474

Producer. Born in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Also known as:** Caroline Eselin-Schaefer, Caroline Eselin Shaefer
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 producing, 3 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Barry Jenkins](https://film.one/person/barry-jenkins.md), [Adele Romanski](https://film.one/person/adele-romanski.md), [Dede Gardner](https://film.one/person/dede-gardner.md), [Jeremy Kleiner](https://film.one/person/jeremy-kleiner.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 82 (1), 2010s 85 (2), 2020s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1116225, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1000803/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32474

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Underground Railroad*](https://film.one/tv/the-underground-railroad.md) (86), [*If Beale Street Could Talk*](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md) (81)
- **Disney+:** [*Moonlight*](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md) (89)

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

## Biography

Caroline Eselin is an American costume designer. A native of Pascagoula, Mississippi, she graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1997. She is married to cinematographer Roberto Schaefer.

She is known for her work on Barry Jenkins films, serving as costume designer on *Moonlight* (2016), *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018) and *The Underground Railroad* (2021). Other credits include *Under the Silver Lake* (2018), *The Hollars* (2016), *The Girlfriend Experience* (2016–2017) and *Father of the Bride* (2022). She has received multiple Costume Designers Guild Award nominations.

*Sources: imdb.com, tallahassee.com, hattiesburgamerican.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000), Fi1m 82, Production Assistant — [page](https://film.one/film/o-brother-where-art-thou.md)

### Crew (3)

- *The Underground Railroad* (2021), Fi1m 86, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-underground-railroad.md)
- *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), Fi1m 81, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md)
- *Moonlight* (2016), Fi1m 89, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd* (2026), Costume Design
- *Chief of War* (2025), series, Costume Design
- *Father of the Bride* (2022), Costume Design
- *The Underground Railroad* (2021), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-underground-railroad.md)
- *The Gaze* (2021), Costume Design
- *Troop Zero* (2019), Costume Design
- *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), Costume Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md)
- *Under the Silver Lake* (2018), Costume Design
- *Moonlight* (2016), Costume Design — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md)
- *The Hollars* (2016), Costume Design
- *The Girlfriend Experience* (2016), series, Costume Design
- *As I Lay Dying* (2013), Costume Design
- *The Paperboy* (2012), Costume Design
- *The Courier* (2012), Costume Design, Costumer
- *Seeking Justice* (2011), Costume Design
- *The Yellow Handkerchief* (2009), Costume Design
- *Leaves of Grass* (2009), Costume Design
- *Stay Alive* (2006), Costume Design
- *Sueno* (2005), Costume Design
- *Don't Come Knocking* (2005), Costume Design
- *Monster's Ball* (2001), Set Costumer
- *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000), Production Assistant — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/o-brother-where-art-thou.md)
- *Stop Breakin' Down* (1999), Costume Design
- *Saturn Return*, Costume Design

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