---
name: "Terry Ryan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/terry-ryan"
fi1m_id: "terry-ryan"
imdb_id: "nm0752867"
tmdb_id: 3502
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T03:39:38.929736+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."
---

# Terry Ryan

## Identity

Terry Ryan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/terry-ryan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** terry-ryan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0752867
- **TMDB ID:** 3502
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752867/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3502

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 1994–2005
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 81 (1), 2000s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752867/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3502

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*King Kong*](https://film.one/film/king-kong-2005.md) (81)

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## Biography

Terry Ryan is an Australian costume designer whose credits span Australian and international film and television from the late 1970s onwards. He began in wardrobe roles on productions including *Gallipoli* (1981) and *My Brilliant Career* (1979) before taking lead costume designer positions.

Ryan designed the costumes for *Muriel's Wedding* (1994), *Chopper* (2000), *Farscape* (1999–2003), *King Kong* (2005), *Knowing* (2009) and *Tomorrow, When the War Began* (2010). Several of his costumes from *Muriel's Wedding* are held in the collection of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for his work on *Farscape*.

*Sources: imdb.com, nfsa.gov.au, muppet.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *King Kong* (2005), Fi1m 81, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/king-kong-2005.md)
- *Muriel's Wedding* (1994), Fi1m 81, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/muriels-wedding.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

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

- *The Lovers* (2015), Costume Design
- *Save Your Legs!* (2013), Costume Designer
- *The Eye of the Storm* (2011), Costume Designer
- *Tomorrow, When the War Began* (2010), Costume Design
- *Knowing* (2009), Costume Design
- *In Her Skin* (2009), Costume Design
- *King Kong* (2005), Costume Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/king-kong-2005.md)
- *Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure* (2005), Costume Designer
- *Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid* (2004), Costume Design
- *The Hard Word* (2002), Costume Design
- *The Road from Coorain* (2002), Costume Design
- *Chopper* (2000), Costume Design
- *The Three Stooges* (2000), Costume Design
- *Nowhere to Land* (2000), Costume Design
- *Passion* (1999), Costume Design
- *Farscape* (1999), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/farscape.md)
- *Paradise Road* (1997), Costume Design
- *Children of the Revolution* (1996), Costume Design
- *Feral TV* (1996), series, as Derryn (voice) · Writer
- *The Seventh Floor* (1994), Costume Design
- *Muriel's Wedding* (1994), Costume Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/muriels-wedding.md)
- *The Ferals* (1994), series, as Derryn (voice)
- *The Custodian* (1994), Costume Design
- *Fortress* (1992), Costume Design
- *Over the Hill* (1992), Costume Design
- *The Blood of Heroes* (1989), Costume Design
- *Minnamurra* (1989), Costume Design
- *High Tide* (1987), Costume Design
- *Kangaroo* (1986), Costume Designer
- *The Coca-Cola Kid* (1985), Costume Design
- *Fast Talking* (1984), Costume Designer
- *The Year of Living Dangerously* (1982), Costume Design
- *Starstruck* (1982), Costume Design
- *Heatwave* (1982), Costume Design
- *The Survivor* (1981), Costume Design
- *Harlequin* (1980), Costume Designer

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