---
name: "Lydia Marks"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lydia-marks"
fi1m_id: "lydia-marks"
imdb_id: "nm0548905"
tmdb_id: 4437
roles: ["Set decoration"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-24T01:57:11.091084+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."
---

# Lydia Marks

## Identity

Lydia Marks

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lydia-marks
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lydia-marks
- **IMDb ID:** nm0548905
- **TMDB ID:** 4437
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0548905/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4437

Set decoration.

## Details

- **Work:** Set decoration
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (1), 2010s 71 (2), 2020s 68 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 67 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Music 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $7m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0548905/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4437

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*tick, tick... BOOM!*](https://film.one/film/tick-tick-boom.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Lydia Marks is a New York-based set decorator and production designer. She studied documentary photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. After working in the photography departments of museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, she moved into set decoration for film and television.

Her credits as set decorator include *The Devil Wears Prada* (2006), *Sex and the City* (2008), *Synecdoche, New York* (2008), *Money Monster* (2016), *Paterson* (2016) and *Broken Flowers* (2005). She received production design credit on *tick, tick... BOOM!* (2021). Marks has also worked on television series including *Fosse/Verdon* (2019) and *Maniac* (2018). She has won a Daytime Emmy Award, received a Primetime Emmy nomination and two Art Directors Guild Award nominations, and runs her own interior design firm, Lydia Marks Design, since 2008.

*Sources: imdb.com, lydiamarks.com, mainemedia.edu, variety.com, smfa.tufts.edu.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Black Rabbit* (2025), Fi1m 63, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-rabbit.md)
- *tick, tick... BOOM!* (2021), Fi1m 72, Production design, Production Design, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/tick-tick-boom.md)
- *Fosse/Verdon* (2019), Fi1m 58, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/tv/fosse-verdon.md)
- *Paterson* (2016), Fi1m 84, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/paterson.md)
- *Synecdoche, New York* (2008), Fi1m 84, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/synecdoche-new-york.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *Love Story* (2026), series, as Set Decoration
- *Black Rabbit* (2025), series, as Set Decoration — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-rabbit.md)
- *A Murder at the End of the World* (2023), series, as Set Decoration
- *The Time Traveler's Wife* (2022), series, as Set Decoration
- *tick, tick... BOOM!* (2021), as Set Decoration · Production Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/tick-tick-boom.md)
- *The Hindered Heist* (2020), as The Intelligence
- *Fosse/Verdon* (2019), series, as Set Decoration — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/fosse-verdon.md)
- *Maniac* (2018), series, as Set Decoration
- *Paterson* (2016), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/paterson.md)
- *Money Monster* (2016), as Set Decoration
- *Quantico* (2015), series, as Set Decoration
- *Sex and the City 2* (2010), as Set Decoration
- *Away We Go* (2009), as Set Decoration
- *Synecdoche, New York* (2008), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/synecdoche-new-york.md)
- *Sex and the City* (2008), as Set Decoration
- *The Brave One* (2007), as Set Decoration
- *The Devil Wears Prada* (2006), as Set Decoration
- *Broken Flowers* (2005), as Set Decoration
- *Love the Hard Way* (2003), as Set Decoration
- *How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days* (2003), Assistant Costume Designer
- *Hysterical Blindness* (2002), as Set Decoration
- *A Good Baby* (2000), as Set Decoration
- *You Can Count on Me* (2000), as Set Decoration
- *Giving It Up* (1999), as Set Decoration
- *Destination Anywhere* (1997), as Set Dresser

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