Carol Ramsey

Originally from Pennsylvania, Carol Ramsey earned her master's degree from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. While studying music, she also pursued her passion for costume design, creating elaborate 16th-century fashions for the Boston Shakespeare Company, and quickly segued into theater, dance, commercials, and films. In 1990, she moved to Los Angeles, where she has designed more than 30 feature films for all the major studios.

Carol Ramsey has composed a vast array of costumes throughout her career, from all-American 1940s menswear for Paul Newman, to the flashy Miami "Bad Boys," to the hit character comedy "Meet the Fockers," to six films for Merchant-Ivory. She has transformed Sir Anthony Hopkins into Picasso, designed uniforms for an S&M "Dodgeball" team, and outfitted Barbra Streisand, Leslie Caron, and Will Ferrell. In the last few years, Ramsey has costumed Kevin Spacey, Chris Pine, Melissa McCarthy, Olga Kurylenko, Jamie Foxx, Mark Wahlberg, Christoph Waltz, Deborah Messing, Kelly Lynch, and Jennifer Carpenter. More recently, she collaborated with director Sean Anders on the hit comedy sequel "Horrible Bosses 2," and "Daddy's Home," with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.

Her television work includes two seasons of "Magic City" for STARZ, and pilots for such ABC hits as "The Goldbergs," "Body of Proof" and "The Mysteries of Laura." She is currently designing the pilot episode of "Stanistan" for the USA Network.

Ramsey's work has won praise from numerous critics, including Janet Maslin of The New York Times. In 2001, she was nominated for a Costume Designers Guild Award for the CBS mini-series "Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis."

Her additional credits include "Identity Thief," "Horrible Bosses," "The Other Guys," "King of New York," "Slaves of New York," "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge," "The Santa Clause," "Tuck Everlasting," "Stick It," "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story," "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead," "Le Divorce," and "Surviving Picasso."

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