Costume Designer

Joan is one of Ireland's best-known film costume designers working at home and abroad. Film credits include My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father and Dancing at Lughnasa. She began her career in Theatre and Architectural Design, winning awards in both areas.

She designed Brian Friel's Translations starring Brian Dennehy on Broadway, and returned to New York's Lincoln Center in 1999 for their Friel season. More recently her work was seen on television in David Copperfield and on film in Veronica Guerin, directed by Joel Schumacher.

Recent projects include The Prestige, shot in LA, and The Tudors, a ten-part series for American Showtime with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Henry VIII for which she has just won her third Emmy. She has also won two IFTAs for the Tudors. Her most recent theatre work includes two Sam Shepard plays commissioned by the Abbey Theatre, Kicking a Dead Horse and Ages of the Moon directed by the actor/playwright.