---
name: "Virginia B. Johnson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/virginia-b-johnson"
fi1m_id: "virginia-b-johnson"
imdb_id: "nm1772242"
tmdb_id: 1318814
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T11:14:36.763032+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."
---

# Virginia B. Johnson

## Identity

Virginia B. Johnson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/virginia-b-johnson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** virginia-b-johnson
- **IMDb ID:** nm1772242
- **TMDB ID:** 1318814
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1772242/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1318814

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Also known as:** Virginia Johnson
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 85 (1), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1772242/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1318814

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*American Primeval*](https://film.one/tv/american-primeval.md) (58)

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

## Biography

Virginia B. Johnson, also credited as Virginia Johnson and V Bristol-Johnson, is an American costume designer. She holds an MFA in Costume Design and Fashion History from West Virginia University and began her career working as a costume designer in regional and summer-stock theatre before moving into film and television.

She worked as a costume supervisor on productions including *Spotlight* (2015), *Black Mass* (2015) and *Joy* (2015). As lead designer her credits include *Patriots Day* (2016), *Mile 22* (2018), *Spenser Confidential* (2020), *Hillbilly Elegy* (2020) and *The New Mutants* (2020). She has frequently collaborated with director Peter Berg.

Johnson designed the costumes for the series *The Walking Dead: Dead City* (2023) and *American Primeval* (2025), the latter earning her a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Period Costumes.

*Sources: imdb.com, virginiabjohnson.com, youtube.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *American Primeval* (2025), Fi1m 58, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/tv/american-primeval.md)
- *Spotlight* (2015), Fi1m 85, Costume Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/spotlight.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *The Parenting* (2025), Costume Design
- *American Primeval* (2025), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/american-primeval.md)
- *Salem's Lot* (2024), Costume Design
- *Vacation Friends 2* (2023), Costume Design
- *The Walking Dead: Dead City* (2023), series, Costume Design
- *The Man from Toronto* (2022), Costume Design
- *Hillbilly Elegy* (2020), Costume Design
- *The New Mutants* (2020), Costume Design
- *Spenser Confidential* (2020), Costume Design
- *Mile 22* (2018), Costume Design
- *Father of the Year* (2018), Costume Design
- *Wheelman* (2017), Costume Design
- *Professor Marston and the Wonder Women* (2017), Costume Supervisor
- *Patriots Day* (2016), Costume Design
- *Joy* (2015), Costume Supervisor
- *Spotlight* (2015), Costume Supervisor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/spotlight.md)
- *Black Mass* (2015), Costume Supervisor
- *The Forger* (2014), Costume Supervisor
- *Crooked Arrows* (2012), Costume Design
- *What's Your Number?* (2011), Costume Supervisor
- *Stiffs* (2010), Costume Design
- *The Box* (2009), Costume Supervisor
- *Surrogates* (2009), Costume Supervisor
- *Shuttle* (2008), Costume Design
- *Black Irish* (2007), Costume Design
- *Normal Adolescent Behavior* (2007), Costume Design
- *Chris Elliott's FDR -- A One-Man Show* (1987), Wardrobe Assistant

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