---
name: "Charisse Cardenas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charisse-cardenas"
fi1m_id: "charisse-cardenas"
imdb_id: "nm0136382"
tmdb_id: 958691
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-05T01:41:52.943231+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."
---

# Charisse Cardenas

## Identity

Charisse Cardenas

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charisse-cardenas
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charisse-cardenas
- **IMDb ID:** nm0136382
- **TMDB ID:** 958691
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136382/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/958691

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1998–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Rajeev Malhotra](https://film.one/person/rajeev-malhotra.md), [Taylor Sheridan](https://film.one/person/taylor-sheridan.md), [Stephen Kay](https://film.one/person/stephen-kay.md), Michael Friedman
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 55 (3), 2000s 82 (1), 2010s 58 (1), 2020s 66 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 62 to 56 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 4 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 4, Crime 3, Drama 3, Thriller 2, Fantasy 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,107m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136382/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/958691

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Black Bird*](https://film.one/tv/black-bird.md) (78), [*The Madison*](https://film.one/tv/the-madison.md) (54)
- **Netflix:** [*American Sniper*](https://film.one/film/american-sniper.md) (58)

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

## Biography

Charisse Cardenas is a production designer working in film and television. She is credited as production designer on the 2014 film *American Sniper* and the 2026 series *The Madison*.

Her other production design credits include the films *The Lincoln Lawyer* (2011), *Gone* (2012), *Everything, Everything* (2017) and *The Marksman* (2021), and the series *Black Bird* (2022), *Pearson* (2019), *Lioness* (2023–) and *Landman* (2024–). She began her career in the art department, with set design credits on films including *Almost Famous* (2000) and *Surrogates* (2009). Cardenas has received Primetime Emmy nominations for her work.

*Sources: imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *The Madison* (2026), Fi1m 54, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-madison.md)
- *Black Bird* (2022), Fi1m 78, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-bird.md)
- *American Sniper* (2014), Fi1m 58, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/american-sniper.md)
- *Almost Famous* (2000), Fi1m 82, Set Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/almost-famous.md)
- *End of Days* (1999), Fi1m 48, Set Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/end-of-days.md)
- *Hard Rain* (1998), Fi1m 61, Set Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/hard-rain.md)
- *Lethal Weapon 4* (1998), Fi1m 55, Set Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/lethal-weapon-4.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *The Madison* (2026), series, Production Design — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-madison.md)
- *Landman* (2024), series, Production Design
- *Lioness* (2023), series, Production Design
- *Black Bird* (2022), series, Production Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-bird.md)
- *The Marksman* (2021), Production Design
- *Everything, Everything* (2017), Production Design
- *A Family Man* (2016), Production Design
- *Bosch* (2015), series, Production Design
- *American Sniper* (2014), Production Design — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/american-sniper.md)
- *Runner Runner* (2013), Production Design
- *Gone* (2012), Production Design
- *The Lincoln Lawyer* (2011), Production Design
- *Surrogates* (2009), Set Designer
- *State of Play* (2009), Assistant Art Director
- *The Killing Room* (2009), Production Design
- *The Take* (2008), Production Design
- *Broken* (2007), Production Design
- *The Alamo* (2004), Set Designer
- *Tears of the Sun* (2003), Set Designer
- *The Sweetest Thing* (2002), Set Designer
- *Bandits* (2001), Set Designer
- *The Glass House* (2001), Set Designer
- *Almost Famous* (2000), Set Designer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/almost-famous.md)
- *Big Momma's House* (2000), Set Designer
- *End of Days* (1999), Set Designer — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/end-of-days.md)
- *Lethal Weapon 4* (1998), Set Designer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/lethal-weapon-4.md)
- *Hard Rain* (1998), Set Designer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/hard-rain.md)

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