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Anthea Sylbert Biography

Birth Name:Anthea Sylbert

Birth Place:New York City, New York, United States

Profession Costume designer, Producer, Writer, Costume department

Fast Facts

Received a Tony Award nomination in 1984 for Best Costume Designer, for "The Real Thing․"
She created period costumes for her film "Chinatown," which resulted in an Oscar Award nomination for Best Costume Design
In 2005 the Costume Designers Guild Awards awarded her with a Career Achievement Award for her costume designing in film
She attended the Barnard College in New York, and later studied at Parsons School of Design
Began as a costume designer on New York films such as "The Tiger Makes Out," and worked with the production designer Richard Sylbert, her then-brother-in-law
After leaving active designing in 1978, she became a production executive and the vice president of special projects at Warner Bros
She went to work as an independent producer with Goldie Hawn and produced "Protocol" and after a few years, she produced the award-winning TV movie "Truman․"