(October 6, 1939 – June 18, 2024)
Anthea Sylbert, an Oscar-nominated costume designer on Chinatown and Julia who dressed Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby among many other credits and also was a studio exec and an Emmy-winning producer, has died. She was 84.
The news came from filmmaker Sakus Lalus, who made the 2023 documentary Anthea Sylbert: My Life in 3 Acts. The film followed Sylbert as she penned her memoir on the Greek island of Skiathos.
Sylbert was a costume designer on more than 20 films from the late 1960s to late ’70s including Carnal Knowledge, The Heartbreak Kid, Shampoo, The Fortune, King Kong, The Illustrated Man, The Last Tycoon and F.I.S.T. Later in her career, she also produced or exec produced such pics as Overboard, My Blue Heaven and Something to Talk About and won an Outstanding Made for Television Movie Emmy and a PGA Award for 1995’s Truman, starring Gary Sinise as the 33rd U.S. president.
Along with her Emmy and dual Oscar noms, Sylbert was a two-time BAFTA nominee and received the 2005 Career Achievement Award from the Costume Designers Guild.
The 1968 horror thriller Rosemary’s Baby from Roman Polanski was a box office smash, and many of Farrow’s outfits attained big-screen icon status.
Sylbert also wrote a pair of TV movies she produced, Giving Up the Ghost (1998) and If You Believe (1999).
