Alexandra Byrne

[6] In 1993, Byrne created the costumes for all four parts of the TV serial The Buddha of Suburbia starring Naveen Andrews.

[16] The following year, Byrne created the costumes for the 1996 film Hamlet directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh,[11] with whom she had previously worked on Life of Napoleon.

[18][19] In 1998, Byrne served as the costume designer for the feature film Elizabeth, which starred Cate Blanchett as the last Tudor monarch.

[21] Director Shekhar Kapur discouraged historical research on Byrne's part, instead favouring clothing that focused on emotion.

[1] Byrne oversaw the costumes for the 2004 film Finding Neverland starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.

[5] That year, Daily Variety reported that Byrne's "previous two Oscar noms make her a known commodity",[23] and she again garnered a nomination for Best Costume Design at the Academy Awards.

As the sequel was set 27 years later, Byrne sought to create costumes for a confident queen "who has found her stride and established her style".

Kapur did not feel Elizabeth: The Golden Age had to be historically accurate, giving Byrne the freedom to make his film "look very different, much lighter, with a more feminine court".

[28] The production's main actor, Chris Pratt, was hired before he had lost enough body weight, forcing Byrne to anticipate what his physical form would become.

[28] When describing Pratt's character Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy, Byrne said he "was all about the swagger, but without vanity" and designed a red jacket for him that was heavily treated cotton, though it looked like real leather.

[32] Byrne is the costume designer for the 2016 Marvel film Doctor Strange starring Benedict Cumberbatch,[34] which began shooting in November 2015 at Pinewood-Shepperton studios in the UK.

[35][36] For Strange's famous Cloak of Levitation, Byrne estimated that twelve different versions were completed by a team of designers.