Catherine Martin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Catherine Martin
Born January 26, 1965 (1965-01-26) (age 43)
Lindfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse(s) Baz Luhrmann (1997-present)

Catherine Martin (born January 26, 1965, in Lindfield, New South Wales) is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer.

Contents

[edit] Biography

Catherine Martin went to school at North Sydney Girls High School. She did a Diploma Design Course at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, where she started collaborating with her collegemate Baz Luhrmann (now her husband). She designed sets and costumes for his one-act stage precursor of Strictly Ballroom. After completing studies, she worked as a designer on Luhrmann's production of "Lake Lost" (1988).

In 1989, she designed the sets for an Australian stage production of Diary of a Madman starring Geoffrey Rush. She worked on Luhrmann's La bohème (1990) and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

She recreated her designs for screen-version of Strictly Ballroom (1992), for which she won two Australian Film Institute Awards (Best Production design and Best Costume design). She won an Oscar nomination (as a production designer) for Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996). She also made her debut as an associate producer for the same. She married Luhrmann on her 32nd birthday, January 26, 1997.

Their third feature collaboration was Moulin Rouge! (2002), the last in Luhrmann's The Red Curtain Trilogy. She designed the sets and co-designed the costumes with Angus Strathie. The feature earned her two Academy Awards: for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.

In 2002, she adapted her set and costume designs for Luhrmann's Broadway adaptation of La Bohème, for which she won Broadway's 2003 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical and won a nomination as Best Costume Designer (along with Angus Strathie).

She gave birth to a baby girl, Lillian Amanda Luhrmann, on October 10, 2003. Her son, William Alexander Luhrmann, was born on June 8, 2005[1].

[edit] Awards

Sourced from Hollywood.com[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ IMDB Biography for Catherine Martin (I). Retrieved on 2006-09-24.
  2. ^ Celeb Detail : Catherine Martin. Retrieved on 2006-09-24.

[edit] External links


Languages