Biography

Anastasia White most recently served as production designer on Netflix's popular drama Leave the World Behind for director/producer/writer Sam Esmail.

Born in Indiana and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Anastasia began her career with an early stint in the music industry. She then attended graduate school for architecture, and interned in London before returning to the United States to work at an architectural firm. White then moved to New York and entered the film and television industry under an apprenticeship with production designer Mark Friedberg, leading to jobs on such films as Morning Glory, The Beaver, and the series Mildred Pierce for HBO. Some of White's early credits also include Tower Heist, Moonrise Kingdom, and Kill Your Darlings.

White then served as production designer for Sam Esmail's highly acclaimed cyber-thriller series Mr. Robot, for which White received the Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award in 2017. White was again nominated for that award for the show in 2018, and for her work on Esmail's critically acclaimed series Homecoming, starring Julia Roberts, in 2019. Last year White was production designer on the HBO series The White House Plumbers, starring Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Domhnall Gleeson, and Lena Headey.

White's most recent collaboration with Sam Esmail, Leave the World Behind, starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, and Ethan Hawke, spent five weeks on Netflix's list of Global Top 10 Films in English since its release in December, 2023.
- IMDb mini biography by: Julie Kuehndorf