Consolata Boyle facts for kids

Consolata Boyle is an Irish costume designer who lives in Dublin. A costume designer is someone who creates all the clothes and outfits for characters in movies, TV shows, or plays. Consolata often works with the English director Stephen Frears. She has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. These nominations were for her amazing work on his films: The Queen (2006), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017).

Early Life and Training

Consolata Boyle was born on May 23, 1949. She went to Holy Child Killiney secondary school in County Dublin, Ireland. Later, she studied Archaeology and History at University College Dublin, graduating in 1972. While at university, she was part of a drama group called Dramsoc. This is where she started to get interested in costumes.

She also trained in costume design at the Abbey Theatre, which is a famous theatre in Dublin. She learned a lot about textiles and how to recreate historical clothes. She also earned a special diploma in textiles from West Surrey College of Art & Design. She began her career in the early 1980s.

Designing for the Big Screen

Consolata Boyle has designed costumes for many movies. Some of her well-known works include Anne Devlin (1984), Angela's Ashes (1999), and Nora (2000). She also worked on The Iron Lady (2011), Miss Julie (2014), and the popular Enola Holmes 1 (2020) and Enola Holmes 2 (2022) movies.

Her long partnership with director Stephen Frears started with the film The Snapper in 1993. They continued to work together on many films, such as Mary Reilly (1996) and The Queen (2006), which starred Helen Mirren. She also designed costumes for Cheri (2009), Tamara Drewe (2010) with Gemma Arterton, Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017).

Consolata also worked with actors like Kit Harington and Alicia Vikander on the war-time costumes for Testament of Youth (2014). She designed costumes for Antonio Banderas in the Spanish film Altamira (2016).

Awards and Recognition

Consolata Boyle has received many awards for her amazing costume designs. She has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. These nominations were for The Queen (2006), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). The Academy Awards are also known as the Oscars, and they are very important awards in the film industry.

She has won several other awards too. She won an Emmy Award for the TV film The Lion in Winter (2003). She also won a Costume Designers Guild Award for The Queen (2006). In Ireland, she has won four Irish Film and Television Awards for her work on The Queen (2006), Chéri (2009), The Iron Lady (2011), and Philomena (2013).

In 2022, Consolata Boyle received the UCD Alumni Award for Arts & Humanities from her old university. This award recognized her great achievements in her career.

Personal Life

Consolata Boyle is married to Donald Taylor Black, who is a documentary filmmaker.