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Marit Allen

Costume Designer

Marit Allen has been the costume designer on two previous films directed by Ang Lee, The Hulk and Ride with the Devil.

She was a Costume Designers Guild Award nominee for her work on Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut; an Emmy Award nominee for her costume design on John Erman's miniseries Scarlett; a CableACE Award nominee for designing the costumes on Ivan Passer's telefilm Stalin; and a BAFTA Award nominee for Michael Radford's White Mischief.

Early in her career, Ms. Allen collaborated with director Nicolas Roeg, on Don't Look Now and Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession, and would later reteam with him on Eureka and The Witches.

Among the many other films she has been the costume designer on are Stephen Frears' The Hit; Frank Oz' Little Shop of Horrors and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Dusan Makavejev's Manifesto' Wayne Wang's Eat a Bowl of Tea; Richard Benjamin's Mermaids; Carroll Ballard's Wind; Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden; Chris Columbus' Academy Award-winning Mrs. Doubtfire; Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man; Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight of Water and K-19: The Widowmaker; Jonathan Frakes' Thunderbirds; and, most recently, Steven Zaillian's All the King‘s Men.