Francesca Chamberland | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Costume designer |
Awards | Genie Award for Best Costume Design |
Francesca Chamberland is a Canadian costume designer. She began her career working in the wardrobe department on films including Some Girls (1988) and In Love and War (1996), eventually becoming wardrobe master for the 1997 film In the Presence of Mine Enemies . [1]
She won the 2007 Genie Award for Best Costume Design for her work in the film The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story . [2] She had been nominated four times in the same category (including twice at the Genie Awards of 2006). [3] She has also earned two Jutra Award nominations, winning the Prix Iris for Costume Design for the 2016 film Wild Run: The Legend (Chasse-Galerie: La Légende). [4]
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 22 April 1990 to 20 June 1993, with the last series nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. Set in the UK and the US in an unspecified period between the late 1920s and the 1930s, the series starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, an affable young gentleman and member of the idle rich, and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his highly intelligent and competent valet. Bertie and his friends, who are mainly members of the Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable Jeeves.
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