Catherine Martin (designer)
| Catherine Martin | |
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| Born |
26 January 1965 Lindfield, Sydney, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater |
Sydney College of the Arts East Sydney Technical College National Institute of Dramatic Arts |
| Occupation | Costume designer, production designer, set designer, film producer |
| Spouse(s) | Baz Luhrmann (1997–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | catherinemartin |
Catherine Martin (born 26 January 1965) is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer. She won two Academy Awards for Moulin Rouge! in 2002 and another two for The Great Gatsby in 2014. Having won four Oscars, she is the most awarded Australian in Oscar history, having overtaken 1950s costume designer Orry-Kelly.
Martin was born in Lindfield, New South Wales, to a French mother and an Australian father, both academics who met at the Sorbonne. She has one brother. As a child, Martin was fascinated by the vintage clothing parades occasionally thrown by her Australian grandmother and her church friends. She would beg her parents to take her to the Victoria and Albert Museum so she could dig through the costume section. Her mother taught her to use a sewing machine at age 6, and by age 15 she was creating her own patterns in order to make herself dresses. In an interview with Tory Burch, Martin mentioned The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) and Gone with the Wind (film) as her childhood inspirations for her love of film and design.
She attended North Sydney Girls High School. As a student, she worked as an usherette at the Roseville theatre. She went on to study visual arts at the Sydney College of the Arts, pattern cutting at East Sydney Technical College, and design at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), where she gained a Diploma in Design and started collaborating with fellow student and now husband Baz Luhrmann.
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