Alexandra Byrne is an Academy Award-nominated costume designer. Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... Costume designer is a cinema term which refers to a person whose responsibilty is to design costumes for a movie or stage production. ...
Despite having Costumed only six films in her career, she has managed to establish herself as one of the greatest working Costume Designers in Hollywood, earning Academy Award nominations for three of her films — Elizabeth, Hamlet and Finding Neverland — and considerable acclaim for the other three — Persuasion, Captain Corelli's Mandolin and The Phantom of the Opera. ... Elizabeth is a 1998 movie about the early reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, written by Michael Hirst and directed by Shekhar Kapur. ... Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeares classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also starred in the title role. ... Finding Neverland is a 2004 film, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. ... Jane Austens novel Persuasion (1818) was produced as a film in 1995, and was directed by Roger Michell. ... Spoiler warning: Captain Corellis Mandolin is a novel by Louis de Bernières. ... The title character as depicted by Lon Chaney (1883-1930) in the 1925 film depiction. ...
She was also nominated for the Tony Award in 1990 for Best Scenic Design for Some Americans Abroad. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
She is married to actor Simon Shepherd with four children.
Byrne won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2001, and was nominated again in the same category in both 2002 and 2005.
Byrne began her acting career on Broadway in the hit musical Annie, in which she played the role of July and also understudied the title role.
Byrne, who was born in Ridgewood, NJ on December 23, lives in New Jersey with her husband, former New York City Police Officer Michael McMahon, and their sons, Michael (b.
Byrne had asked his mother to characterize Tim, and she had said him, Tim was a very smart, bright little boy, a bundle of energy and his favorite saying was "I can do it." As a toddler, in his playpen, he managed to get out and drag the playpen down the street.
In his eulogy, his brother Sean Byrne said when he was notified of his father's death, he came home from Maritime College and spoke to Timmy at Syracuse University.
Timmy was the head of the "Byrne Corporation." At one time, he left his NYC apartment to live with the family as a budget strategy.
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