---
name: "Elsa Zamparelli"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elsa-zamparelli"
fi1m_id: "elsa-zamparelli"
imdb_id: "nm0952747"
tmdb_id: 7850
wikidata_id: "Q16106857"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "8 December 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T23:53:39.878253+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."
---

# Elsa Zamparelli

## Identity

Elsa Zamparelli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elsa-zamparelli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elsa-zamparelli
- **IMDb ID:** nm0952747
- **TMDB ID:** 7850
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16106857
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Zamparelli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16106857, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0952747/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7850

Costume designer. Born 8 December 1944.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 8 December 1944
- **Active:** 1990–1995
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 2, Drama 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1, History 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $712m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Zamparelli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16106857, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0952747/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7850

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dances with Wolves*](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Elsa Zamparelli is a costume designer and set decorator. Born Marie Johanna Elizabeth Vande Bovenkamp on 8 December 1944, she began her career in the art department and as a set decorator on television series including *Santa Barbara* and *The Bold and the Beautiful*.

She is best known for her costume design on the films *Dances with Wolves* (1990) and *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992). For the former she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Her other film credits include *Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls* (1995), *Last of the Dogmen* (1995), *Nothing to Lose* (1997) and *The Order* (2001). She has also received three Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on *The Bold and the Beautiful*.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls* (1995), Fi1m 54, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/ace-ventura-when-nature-calls.md)
- *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992), Fi1m 84, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-of-the-mohicans.md)
- *Dances with Wolves* (1990), Fi1m 80, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *The Order* (2001), Costume Design
- *Slow Burn* (2000), Costume Design
- *Forever Lulu* (2000), Costume Design
- *Nothing to Lose* (1997), Costume Design
- *Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls* (1995), Costume Design — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/ace-ventura-when-nature-calls.md)
- *Last of the Dogmen* (1995), Costume Design
- *The Avenging Angel* (1995), Costume Design
- *Double Jeopardy* (1992), Production Design, Costume Design
- *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992), Costume Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-of-the-mohicans.md)
- *Dances with Wolves* (1990), Costume Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1991: Best Costume Design (nominated), for *Dances with Wolves*

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

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