Biography

Mary Zophres was born on March 23, 1964 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. She is a costume designer, known for La La Land (2016), Babylon (2022) and Hail, Caesar! (2016). She has been married to Murray Valeriano since March 9, 2006.

Frequently works with Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. The professional partnership began when she worked as an assistant to costume designer, Richard Hornung, on the Coens' film The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). When Hornung, who was suffering from AIDS, became too ill to work on Fargo (1996), she was asked to replace him. She has designed costumes for almost every Coen brothers' film since, including Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) and Hail, Caesar! (2016).

Mary Zophres was nominated for a 2019 Academy Award in the Best Costume Design category for her work on The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) but lost to Ruth E. Carter for Black Panther (2018).

Dec. 2007 - Ranked #39 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.

As of 2022, she has contribute with the costume design of five films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - where she provided the extra costumes -, Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), A Serious Man (2009) and La La Land (2016). Of those, No Country for Old Men (2007) is a winner in the category.