---
name: "Kimberly Adams"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kimberly-adams"
fi1m_id: "kimberly-adams"
imdb_id: "nm0011449"
tmdb_id: 587803
roles: ["Assistant costume designer"]
born: "3 August 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 8
updated: "2026-10-04T21:36:22.854267+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."
---

# Kimberly Adams

## Identity

Kimberly Adams

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kimberly-adams
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kimberly-adams
- **IMDb ID:** nm0011449
- **TMDB ID:** 587803
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011449/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587803

Assistant costume designer. Born 3 August 1963 in San Francisco, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant costume designer
- **Born:** 3 August 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Active:** 1990–present
- **Also known as:** Kimberly J. Adams , Kimberly Adams Galligan, Kimberly Adams-Galligan	
- **Frequently works with:** [Alison Tatlock](https://film.one/person/alison-tatlock.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 72 (3), 2000s 70 (3), 2010s 80 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 68 across 8 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Mystery 3, Horror 2, Action & Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $905m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011449/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587803

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Halt and Catch Fire*](https://film.one/tv/halt-and-catch-fire.md) (84)
- **Netflix:** [*Stranger Things*](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md) (77)

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

## Biography

Kimberly Adams-Galligan is an American costume designer. Born in San Francisco, she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. She began her career in the fashion industry in New York before returning to Los Angeles in 1988 to work in film, initially as an assistant and associate designer.

She has served as lead costume designer on the first season of the Netflix series *Stranger Things* (2016, first four episodes) and all 20 episodes of the AMC series *Halt and Catch Fire* (2014–2015). Other lead credits include the films *Snitch* (2013), *Into the Storm* (2014), *Breakthrough* (2019) and *Kandahar* (2023), as well as episodes of *Sneaky Pete*, *City on a Hill* and *Special Ops: Lioness*. Earlier work includes associate design on the *Chronicles of Narnia* trilogy and assistant roles on films such as *There Will Be Blood* (2007) and *The Ring* (2002). She received a Costume Designers Guild nomination for outstanding period television for *Halt and Catch Fire*.

Adams-Galligan has been married to William Galligan since 1993.

*Sources: imdb.com, kimberlyadams.info, strangerthings.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (8)

- *Stranger Things* (2016), Fi1m 77, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md)
- *Halt and Catch Fire* (2014), Fi1m 84, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/tv/halt-and-catch-fire.md)
- *There Will Be Blood* (2007), Fi1m 88, Assistant Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/there-will-be-blood.md)
- *The Ring* (2002), Fi1m 70, Assistant Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ring.md)
- *Scream 3* (2000), Fi1m 52, Assistant Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/scream-3.md)
- *Sleepless in Seattle* (1993), Fi1m 78, Assistant Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/sleepless-in-seattle.md)
- *Sleeping with the Enemy* (1991), Fi1m 54, Assistant Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/sleeping-with-the-enemy.md)
- *The Grifters* (1990), Fi1m 84, Assistant Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Passenger* (2026), Costume Designer
- *Lioness* (2023), series, Costume Design
- *Kandahar* (2023), Costume Design
- *Licorice Pizza* (2021), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/licorice-pizza.md)
- *Away* (2020), series, Costume Design
- *Breakthrough* (2019), Costume Design
- *Stranger Things* (2016), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md)
- *Kill the Messenger* (2014), Costume Design
- *Into the Storm* (2014), Costume Design
- *Halt and Catch Fire* (2014), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/halt-and-catch-fire.md)
- *Snitch* (2013), Costume Design
- *The Apparition* (2012), Costume Design
- *Land of the Lost* (2009), Assistant Costume Designer
- *There Will Be Blood* (2007), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/there-will-be-blood.md)
- *Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle* (2003), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/charlies-angels-full-throttle.md)
- *The Ring* (2002), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ring.md)
- *Scream 3* (2000), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/scream-3.md)
- *The Minus Man* (1999), Costume Design
- *Blast from the Past* (1999), Assistant Costume Designer
- *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* (1998), Assistant Costume Designer
- *Boogie Nights* (1997), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/boogie-nights.md)
- *Touch* (1997), Assistant Costume Designer
- *Tin Cup* (1996), Assistant Costume Designer
- *Ghost in the Machine* (1993), Assistant Costume Designer
- *Sleepless in Seattle* (1993), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/sleepless-in-seattle.md)
- *Sleeping with the Enemy* (1991), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/sleeping-with-the-enemy.md)
- *The Grifters* (1990), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)
- *Red Blooded*, Costume Design

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