---
name: "Wendy Chuck"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/wendy-chuck"
fi1m_id: "wendy-chuck"
imdb_id: "nm0160978"
tmdb_id: 35514
wikidata_id: "Q67042566"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 11
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 11
updated: "2026-10-05T13:31:21.766053+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."
---

# Wendy Chuck

## Identity

Wendy Chuck

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/wendy-chuck
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** wendy-chuck
- **IMDb ID:** nm0160978
- **TMDB ID:** 35514
- **Wikidata ID:** Q67042566
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67042566, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160978/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35514

Costume designer. Born in Brisbane, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 1999–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Alexander Payne](https://film.one/person/alexander-payne.md), [Jim Taylor](https://film.one/person/jim-taylor.md), [Albert Berger](https://film.one/person/albert-berger.md), [Jim Burke](https://film.one/person/jim-burke.md), [June Squibb](https://film.one/person/june-squibb.md), [Paul Giamatti](https://film.one/person/paul-giamatti.md), [Ron Yerxa](https://film.one/person/ron-yerxa.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 86 (1), 2000s 78 (3), 2010s 72 (5), 2020s 70 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 72 across 11 titles
- **Score spread:** 6 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 10, Comedy 7, Romance 2, Science Fiction 2, Action 1, Adventure 1
- **Screen time:** 22 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,537m across 11 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67042566, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160978/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35514

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Holdovers*](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md) (81), [*Twilight*](https://film.one/film/twilight.md) (70)
- **Hulu:** [*Election*](https://film.one/film/election.md) (86)
- **Tubi:** [*Spotlight*](https://film.one/film/spotlight.md) (85)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*About Schmidt*](https://film.one/film/about-schmidt.md) (77)
- **Apple TV:** [*Downsizing*](https://film.one/film/downsizing.md) (60)
- **Disney+:** [*Lilo & Stitch*](https://film.one/film/lilo-and-stitch-2025.md) (58)

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

## Biography

Wendy Chuck is a costume designer whose credits include *The Holdovers* (2023) and *Lilo & Stitch* (2025). She has maintained a long collaboration with director Alexander Payne, serving as costume designer on all but one of his feature films, among them *Election* (1999), *Sideways* (2004), *About Schmidt* (2002), *The Descendants* (2011), *Nebraska* (2013) and *Downsizing* (2017).

Trained in fashion in Australia, Chuck worked as a cutter, fitter and tailor for ABC TV and Opera Australia in Sydney. She spent a decade in London, where her roles included freelance styling, a six-year tenure as costume designer at the BFI’s Museum of the Moving Image and teaching at the City Literary Institute. She later relocated to Los Angeles.

Her other notable credits encompass *Twilight* (2008), *Spotlight* (2015), *San Andreas* (2015) and *Bad Santa* (2003). In 1994 she received an Australian Film Institute nomination for *Country Life*; she won a Costume Designers Guild Award for *About Schmidt* and has earned further CDG nominations.

*Sources: imdb.com, wendychuck.com, anothermag.com, appuntamentoalcinema.it.*

## On Fi1m (11)

- *Lilo & Stitch* (2025), Fi1m 58, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/lilo-and-stitch-2025.md)
- *The Holdovers* (2023), Fi1m 81, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md)
- *Downsizing* (2017), Fi1m 60, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/downsizing.md)
- *San Andreas* (2015), Fi1m 54, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/san-andreas.md)
- *Spotlight* (2015), Fi1m 85, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/spotlight.md)
- *Nebraska* (2013), Fi1m 82, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/nebraska.md)
- *The Descendants* (2011), Fi1m 80, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-descendants.md)
- *Twilight* (2008), Fi1m 70, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/twilight.md)
- *Sideways* (2004), Fi1m 86, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/sideways.md)
- *About Schmidt* (2002), Fi1m 77, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/about-schmidt.md)
- *Election* (1999), Fi1m 86, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/election.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

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

- *Lilo & Stitch* (2025), Costume Design — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/lilo-and-stitch-2025.md)
- *The Holdovers* (2023), Costume Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md)
- *Confess, Fletch* (2022), Costume Design
- *Hubie Halloween* (2020), Costume Design
- *Downsizing* (2017), Costume Design — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/downsizing.md)
- *Our Souls at Night* (2017), Costume Design
- *Lazy Eye* (2016), Costume Design
- *The Boss* (2016), Costume Design
- *Spotlight* (2015), Costume Design — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/spotlight.md)
- *San Andreas* (2015), Costume Design — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/san-andreas.md)
- *Tammy* (2014), Costume Designer — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/tammy.md)
- *Nebraska* (2013), Costume Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/nebraska.md)
- *Are You Here* (2013), Costume Design
- *Struck by Lightning* (2013), Costume Design
- *So Undercover* (2012), Costume Design
- *The Watch* (2012), Costume Design
- *The Descendants* (2011), Costume Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-descendants.md)
- *Don't Be Afraid of the Dark* (2010), Costume Design
- *Conviction* (2010), Costume Designer
- *Hung* (2009), series, Costume Design
- *Twilight* (2008), Costume Design — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/twilight.md)
- *Henry Poole Is Here* (2008), Costume Design
- *The Mysteries of Pittsburgh* (2008), Costume Design
- *Mr. Woodcock* (2007), Costume Design
- *Even Money* (2007), Costume Design
- *The Ring Two* (2005), Costume Design
- *Sideways* (2004), Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/sideways.md)
- *Saved!* (2004), Costume Designer
- *Bad Santa* (2003), Costume Designer
- *About Schmidt* (2002), Costume Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/about-schmidt.md)
- *Sugar & Spice* (2001), Costume Design
- *Auggie Rose* (2000), Costume Design
- *Election* (1999), Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/election.md)
- *Varsity Blues* (1999), Costume Design
- *All Men Are Liars* (1995), Costume Design
- *Country Life* (1994), Costume Design
- *The Alien Years* (1988), series, Costume Design
- *The Lizard King* (1988), as Wardrobe Master

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