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name: "Laura Ballinger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laura-ballinger"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 80
updated: "2026-09-17T02:08:37.819920+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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# Laura Ballinger

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 2004–present
- **Also known as:** Laura Ballinger-Gardner, Laura Ballinger Gardner

## Biography

Laura Ballinger, also credited as Laura Ballinger-Gardner or Laura Ballinger Gardner, is an American production designer and art director working in film and television.

She served as production designer on the first season of the series *Veep* (2012), as well as on *Girls* (2012) and *The Following* (2013). Earlier production design credits include the films *Speak* (2004) and *The Great New Wonderful* (2005). As an art director or supervising art director she has worked on numerous features, including *Brokeback Mountain* (2005), *The Fighter* (2010), *The Greatest Showman* (2017), *Joker* (2019) and *The Irishman* (2019), and on the series *Fallout* (2024). She has received multiple Emmy nominations for production design and won one Primetime Emmy Award.

*Sources: imdb.com, tvguide.com, televisionacademy.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Caught Stealing* (2025), Fi1m 68, Supervising Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/caught-stealing.md)
- *The Irishman* (2019), Fi1m 86, Supervising Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-irishman.md)
- *Veep* (2012), Fi1m 82, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/veep.md)
- *Brokeback Mountain* (2005), Fi1m 92, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/brokeback-mountain.md)
- *Garden State* (2004), Fi1m 71, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/garden-state.md)

## Also known for

- *The Greatest Showman* (2017), Supervising Art Director
- *The Fighter* (2010), Art Direction
- *Step Up* (2006), Art Direction
- *Going in Style* (2017), Art Direction
- *Deliver Us from Evil* (2014), Art Direction
- *The OA* (2016), Art Direction
- *The Many Saints of Newark* (2021), Supervising Art Director
- *The Instigators* (2024), Supervising Art Director

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