---
name: "Kate Forbes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kate-forbes"
fi1m_id: "kate-forbes"
imdb_id: "nm0285360"
tmdb_id: 2635296
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T16:43:27.508341+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."
---

# Kate Forbes

## Identity

Kate Forbes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kate-forbes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kate-forbes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0285360
- **TMDB ID:** 2635296
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285360/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2635296

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285360/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2635296

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Brutalist*](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md) (76)
- **Netflix:** [*Fair Play*](https://film.one/film/fair-play.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Kate Forbes is a London-based costume designer and stylist working in film, television and commercials. She has more than thirty years of experience, having begun at a costume house and later apprenticed to costumier Roger K. Burton.

Her feature credits as costume designer include *The Brutalist* (2024), *Fair Play* (2023), *Killers Anonymous* (2019), *Postcards from London* (2018) and *Unmade Beds* (2009). She has also designed for the series *Master of None* and short films including *The Fall* (2019) and *The Bird Game* (2019). Forbes sources period and contemporary garments from costume houses and vintage suppliers, favouring authentic, lived-in pieces over new construction where possible.

*Sources: imdb.com, eachisevery.com, gq-magazine.co.uk, nyunews.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Brutalist* (2024), Fi1m 76, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md)
- *Fair Play* (2023), Fi1m 68, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/fair-play.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *The Brutalist* (2024), Costume Design — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md)
- *Fair Play* (2023), Costume Design — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/fair-play.md)
- *Strasbourg 1518* (2020), Costume Designer
- *The Fall* (2019), Costumer
- *Killers Anonymous* (2019), Costume Designer
- *Postcards from London* (2018), Costume Designer
- *The Empty Plan* (2010), Costume Design
- *The Man Who Married Himself* (2010), Costume Design
- *Unmade Beds* (2009), Costume Design
- *The Last Days of Jack Sheppard* (2009), Costume Designer

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