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name: "Heather Wallace"
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roles: ["Costume designer"]
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updated: "2026-09-16T13:00:16.798077+00:00"
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# Heather Wallace

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer

## Biography

Heather Wallace is an Australian costume designer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual art, majoring in sculpture and art theory, and studied set and costume design at the Centre for the Performing Arts. She began her career in Melbourne working in theatre and opera before returning to South Australia and moving into film.

Wallace has more than three decades in the industry, including many years as a key standby costume person. For the past fifteen years she has concentrated on costume design for short and feature films and television. Her credits include *Samson and Delilah* (2009), *The Babadook* (2014), *Sweet Country* (2018), *Top End Wedding* (2019), the series *Mystery Road* (2018–2020) and *Firebite* (2021–2022), and *The New Boy* (2023). She grew up in the southern Flinders Ranges and has a particular interest in Australian and Indigenous stories.

*Sources: imdb.com, aactafestival.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Babadook* (2014), Fi1m 86, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-babadook.md)

## Also known for

- *Cargo* (2017), Costume Design
- *Sweet Country* (2018), Costume Design
- *Road Train* (2010), Costume Design
- *Samson and Delilah* (2009), Costume Design
- *Top End Wedding* (2019), Costume Designer

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