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Wendy Cork (born 25 July) is an Australian costume designer for film, theatre and television. She is best known for her work on Ladies in Black, Banished, Predestination and Beneath Hill 60.

Life and career

Wendy Cork was born in Goulburn, Australia and graduated from the University of New South Wales with a bachelor of arts in theatre and film. She started her career working in theatre and opera. She made her debut as a costume designer with the film In the Winter Dark, directed by James Bogle in 1998. She also designed the computer-generated clothes for the Rockstar Play-station game, L.A. Noire.

In 2014, she won Hero Frock Hire Award for costume design at the Australian Production Design Guild Awards on a feature film Predestination, directed by The Spierig Brothers starring Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook. Later she worked with Jimmy McGovern's period drama Banished, which was screened on BBC Two. She won Best Costume Design at the AACTA Awards for Ladies in Black, directed by Bruce Beresford.

Filmography

• In the Winter Dark (1998)
• A Wreck A Tangle (2000)
• The Djarn Djarns (2005)
• The Illustrated Family Doctor (2005)
• The Eternity Man (2008)
• Into My Arms (2009)
• My Mind's Own Melody (2012)
• The Turning (2013)
• Predestination (2014)
• Deep Water: The Real Story (2018)
• Grace (2018)
• Winchester (2018)
• Ladies in Black (2018)

Television

• The Farm (2001)
• Counterstrike (2002)
• Fat Cow Motel (2003)
• Go Big (2004)
• Small Claims (2004)
• Hell Has Harbour Views (2005)
• Small Claims: White Wedding (2005)
• Small Claims: The Reunion (2006)
• BlackJack (Second trilogy) (2006-2007)
• Dangerous (2007)
• East West 101 (2007-2008)
• Valentine's Day (2008)
• Sea Patrol (2009-2010)
• Panic at Rock Island (2011)
• Crownies (2011)
• The Great Mint Swindle (2012)
• The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (2012)
• Twentysomething (2013)
• INXS: Never Tear Us Apart (2014)
• Banished (2015)
• Indian Summers (2016)
• Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You (2018)
• Secret City (2018)

Awards and nominations

References

1. "Interview: Costume designer Wendy Cork talks film noir fashion in Predestination". cinemazzi.com. Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
2. "Interview: Wendy Cork". glamadelaide.com.au. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
3. Buckmaster, Luke (20 September 2018). "Australian men didn't dress very well': the challenges behind the Ladies in Black costumes". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
4. "Wendy Cork In Conversation". acmi.net.au. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
5. "THE NIGHT OF THE LUMINARIES". friendsofoperainc.org. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
6. "In The Winter Dark". australiancinema.info. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
7. "BEHIND THE SCENES OF L.A. NOIRE'S PAINSTAKING PRODUCTION DESIGN: PART TWO – COSTUME & WARDROBE". rockstargames.com. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
8. ^ "2014". apdg.org.au. Archived from the original on 23 July 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
9. "BANISHED" (PDF). downloads.bbc.co.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
10. ^ "AACTA AWARDS WINNERS & NOMINEES". aacta.org. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
11. "AACTA AWARDS PAST AWARDS". aacta.org. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
12. "AACTA AWARDS PAST AWARDS". aacta.org. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
13. "2016". apdg.org.au. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
14. ^ "2018 APDG AWARDS NOMINEE ANNOUNCEMENT". apdg.org.au. 16 November 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.

External links

• Wendy Cork at IMDb
• Official website

• Living people
• Australian costume designers
• People from Sydney