Biggar, Trisha (Tricia Biggar)

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Biggar, Trisha (Tricia Biggar)

PERSONAL

Born in Glasgow, Scotland; sister-in-law of Ron Donachie (an actor).

Addresses:

Agent—Peters Fraser & Dunlop, Drury House, 34-43 Russell St., London WC2B 5HA, England.

Career:

Costume designer. Costume designer for various stage productions; Lucasfilm, head of costume design; also worked on several television commercials.

Member:

Costume Designers Guild.

Awards, Honors:

Television Award nomination, best costume design, British Academy of Film and Television Arts 1997, for The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders; Saturn Award, best costumes, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, and Sierra Award, best costume design, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, both 2000, for Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace; Saturn Award, best costumes, and Golden Satellite Award nomination, best costume design, International Press Academy, both 2003, both for Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones; Saturn Award nomination, best costumes, and Costume Designers Guild Award nomination, excellence in costume design for film—fantasy, both 2006, for Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith.

CREDITS

Film Costume Designer:

Wild West, Samuel Goldwyn, 1992.

The Cup, Eagle Beach/Butchers Run, 1999.

The Debt Collector, Dragon Pictures, 1999.

Mad Cows, Entertainment Films, 1999.

Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (also known as The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode I, Star Wars: Episode I—The Beginning, and Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1999.

Beautiful Creatures, United International Pictures, 2000.

A Shot at Glory, Butcher's Run Films, 2000.

Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (also known as Attack of the Clones, Star Wars II, and Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2002, also released as Attack of the Clones: The IMAX Experience.

The Magdalene Sisters, Momentum Pictures, 2002, Miramax, 2003.

Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith (also known as Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode III, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, and Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2005.

Hallam Foe (also known as Mister Foe), Magnolia Pictures, 2007.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change, Paramount, 2008.

Stone of Destiny, Arclight Films, 2008.

Film Costume Supervisor:

(As Tricia Biggar) Killing Dad, Applecross productions, 1989.

Venus Peter, BFI, 1989.

Film Dressmaker:

Silent Scream, Channel 4/BFI, 1990.

Film Appearances:

(Uncredited) Orn Free Taa's aide, Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (also known as The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode I, Star Wars: Episode I—The Beginning, and Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1999.

Television Costume Designer; Series:

Tracey Ullman: A Class Act (also known as A Class Act), [Great Britain], c. 1992, HBO, 1993.

Hope Springs, BBC, beginning 2009.

Television Costume Designer; Miniseries:

Madness by Jonathan Miller, PBS, 1992.

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (also known as Moll Flanders), Granada Television, 1996, broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre (also known as ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre and Mobil Masterpiece Theatre), PBS, 1996.

Television Costume Designer; Movies:

The Big Fish, Channel 4 (England), 1991.

Rides, BBC, 1992.

Cardiac Arrest, BBC, 1993.

Love Hurts, BBC, 1993.

A Mug's Game, BBC, 1995.

Saigon Baby, BBC, 1995.

Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen, Family Channel, 1995.

Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye, Family Channel, 1995, released on video as The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Chapter 18—Treasure of the Peacock's Eye (also known as Treasure of the Peacock's Eye), Paramount, 1999.

The Missing Postman, BBC, 1996.

Truth or Dare, BBC, 1996.

Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father, Family Channel and ABC, 1996.

Television Costume Designer; Episodic:

(As Tricia Biggar) "The Ties That Bind," Van Der Valk, Thames Television, 1991.

Stage Work:

Costume designer for Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, 1978-88; and for Opera North, Leeds, England.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Herself, Within a Minute: The Making of "Episode III," Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment, 2005.

Biggar's work has appeared in various videos.

WRITINGS

Nonfiction:

Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars, Abrams, 2005.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Empire, August, 1999, p. 133.