---
name: "Suzy Benzinger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/suzy-benzinger"
fi1m_id: "suzy-benzinger"
imdb_id: "nm0073150"
tmdb_id: 8869
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T02:47:05.490450+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."
---

# Suzy Benzinger

## Identity

Suzy Benzinger

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/suzy-benzinger
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** suzy-benzinger
- **IMDb ID:** nm0073150
- **TMDB ID:** 8869
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0073150/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8869

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 1984–2013
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (1), 1990s 72 (1), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 72 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $406m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0073150/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8869

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Ghostbusters*](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md) (80)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Deconstructing Harry*](https://film.one/film/deconstructing-harry.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Suzy Benzinger is a costume designer whose film credits include *Ghostbusters* (1984), *Club Paradise* (1986), *Deconstructing Harry* (1997), *Celebrity* (1998), *Whatever Works* (2009), *Blue Jasmine* (2013), *Irrational Man* (2015), *Café Society* (2016), *Wonder Wheel* (2017), *Crisis in Six Scenes* (2016) and *A Rainy Day in New York* (2019).

She began her career in Buffalo, New York, assisting theatrical costume designers, before moving to New York and working for nine years with designer Theoni V. Aldredge on films including *Ghostbusters*, *Moonstruck* and *We're No Angels*, as well as Broadway productions such as *42nd Street*, *Dreamgirls* and *Gypsy*.

Benzinger's stage credits include Broadway costume design for *Miss Saigon*, *Ain't Broadway Grand*, *Saturday Night Fever*, *Movin' Out* and a revival of *A Chorus Line*. She has also designed for Las Vegas and Macau aqua shows and commercials.

*Sources: imdb.com, sonyclassics.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Blue Jasmine* (2013), Fi1m 82, Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/blue-jasmine.md)
- *Deconstructing Harry* (1997), Fi1m 72, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/deconstructing-harry.md)
- *Ghostbusters* (1984), Fi1m 80, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *A Rainy Day in New York* (2019), Costume Design
- *Wonder Wheel* (2017), Costume Design
- *Crisis in Six Scenes* (2016), series, Costume Design
- *Café Society* (2016), Costume Design
- *Irrational Man* (2015), Costume Design
- *Blue Jasmine* (2013), Costume Designer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/blue-jasmine.md)
- *Whatever Works* (2009), Costume Design
- *Celebrity* (1998), Costume Design
- *Deconstructing Harry* (1997), Costume Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/deconstructing-harry.md)
- *Don't Drink the Water* (1994), Costume Design
- *Club Paradise* (1986), Costume Design
- *Ghostbusters* (1984), Costume Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md)

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