Stephenie Lesley McMillan (née Gardner; 20 July 1942 – 19 August 2013)[1] was an internationally recognised British set decorator.
Born in Ilford, Essex, but raised in Chigwell, she graduated from the Woodford County High School for Girls.
16 of these were in collaboration with noted production designer Stuart Craig, including A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Shadowlands (1993), The English Patient (1996), for which she won an Oscar,[6] Chocolat (2000) and all of the eight Harry Potter films.
In a February 2011 interview, she said: "I have been so lucky to have had the opportunity to dress these brilliant and huge sets [for the Harry Potter series] with enough time and money to do it properly, so I feel I don't really have any excuse for not getting it right.
Thomas Welsh, a former President of the Art Director's Guild, told the Los Angeles Times: "An eye for even the smallest details—and an understanding of how they swayed the story line — set her body of work apart."