---
name: "Jane Greenwood"
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fi1m_id: "jane-greenwood"
imdb_id: "nm0339337"
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wikidata_id: "Q6152311"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "30 April 1934"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T10:38:59.886852+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."
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# Jane Greenwood

## Identity

Jane Greenwood

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jane-greenwood
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jane-greenwood
- **IMDb ID:** nm0339337
- **TMDB ID:** 1035668
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6152311
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Greenwood, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6152311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339337/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1035668

Costume designer. Born 30 April 1934 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 30 April 1934, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- **Active:** 1981–1992
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 74 (3), 1990s 86 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Romance 3, Comedy 2, Crime 1, Music 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $165m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Greenwood, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6152311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339337/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1035668

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Glengarry Glen Ross*](https://film.one/film/glengarry-glen-ross.md) (86), [*Tender Mercies*](https://film.one/film/tender-mercies.md) (86)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Arthur*](https://film.one/film/arthur.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Jane Greenwood is a British costume designer born on 30 April 1934 in Liverpool. She trained at Liverpool Art School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, and began her career at the Oxford Playhouse before working at the Stratford Festival in Canada. She moved to New York in 1962 and made her Broadway debut in 1963 with *The Ballad of the Sad Cafe*.

She has designed costumes for more than 100 Broadway productions, as well as for opera, dance, film and television. Her film credits include *Arthur* (1981), *Tender Mercies* (1983), *Mr. Destiny* (1990) and *Glengarry Glen Ross* (1992). She has received 21 Tony Award nominations for costume design and won for *The Little Foxes* in 2017; she was also awarded a Special Tony for Lifetime Achievement in 2014. Greenwood has taught at the Yale School of Drama and was married to scenic designer Ben Edwards.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Glengarry Glen Ross* (1992), Fi1m 86, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/glengarry-glen-ross.md)
- *Tender Mercies* (1983), Fi1m 86, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/tender-mercies.md)
- *Arthur* (1981), Fi1m 72, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/arthur.md)
- *The Four Seasons* (1981), Fi1m 65, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-four-seasons-1981.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *Long Day's Journey into Night* (2026), Costume Design
- *Of Mice and Men* (2021), Costume Design
- *Harvey* (2021), Costume Design
- *Driving Miss Daisy* (2015), Costume Design
- *Mariinsky Theatre* (2008), Editor
- *Death Defying Acts* (2007), Costume Design
- *In the Gloaming* (1997), Costume Design
- *Passion* (1996), Costume Design
- *Oleanna* (1994), Costume Design
- *A Life in the Theatre* (1993), Costume Design
- *Glengarry Glen Ross* (1992), Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/glengarry-glen-ross.md)
- *Mr. Destiny* (1990), Costume Design
- *Ivory Hunters* (1990), Costume Design
- *Sensibility and Sense* (1990), Costume Design
- *The Christmas Wife* (1988), Costume Design
- *Liberace: Behind the Music* (1988), Costume Design
- *Ariadne auf Naxos - Metropolitan Opera* (1988), Costume Design
- *The Squeeze* (1987), Costume Design
- *Johnny Bull* (1986), Costume Design
- *Sweet Liberty* (1986), Costume Design
- *Wetherby* (1985), Costume Design
- *Kennedy* (1983), series, Costume Design
- *Tender Mercies* (1983), Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/tender-mercies.md)
- *The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana* (1982), Costume Design
- *The Shady Hill Kidnapping* (1982), Costume Design
- *Arthur* (1981), Costume Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/arthur.md)
- *The Four Seasons* (1981), Costume Design — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-four-seasons-1981.md)
- *Can't Stop the Music* (1980), Costume Design
- *Addie and the King of Hearts* (1976), Costume Design
- *Beyond the Horizon* (1975), Costume Design
- *A Moon for the Misbegotten* (1975), Costume Design
- *The Easter Promise* (1975), Costume Design
- *A Touch of the Poet* (1974), Costume Design
- *The House Without a Christmas Tree* (1972), Costume Design
- *Hamlet* (1964), Costume Design

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won, 18 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play 2016: Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play 2015: Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play 2014: Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play 2009: Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play 2007: Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play 2005: Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 2002: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design 2001: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design (won)
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design 1996: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design (won)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1996: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1995: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1994: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1993: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1992: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1989: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1984: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1982: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1971: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1968: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1965: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)

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

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