Cynthia Summers

Alias:
Cynthia A. Summers
Cynthia Ann Summers
Cynthia Sumers

Cynthia Summers is an Emmy-winning Costume Designer based in Los Angeles and Vancouver. She is best known for her brilliant and unique style-eye in world-building and bringing characters to life, whether they are modern-day and fashion-driven or fantastical creatures taken from book pages. The spirit of character inspires Cynthia to create cohesive looks that resonate for each individual within their world.  HBO’s adaptation of THE LAST OF US, created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann and starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, is Cynthia’s recent hit project. She also completed work on the newly released Apple Original film SWAN SONG, with Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, Glenn Close, Naomie Harris, and Awkwafina.  In 2021 she was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Costume Design for her work on Netflix’s first season of THE BABY-SITTER’S CLUB. Her stand-out designs for the second and third seasons of Netflix’s Emmy-Nominated series LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, starring Neil Patrick Harris, have won five CAFTCAD awards and were nominated for 2019 & 2020 Costume Designers Guild Awards as well as two Primetime Emmys (2018 & 2019) in Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes. She was also nominated for a 2021 Costume Designer’s Guild award for Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television for TNT’s SNOWPIERCER season 1, starring Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs.  Cynthia has also designed looks for NETFLIX’S cyberpunk-noir sci-fi series ALTERED CARBON starring Anthony Mackie and Simone Missick; five seasons of Bravo’s breakout hit and first scripted series GIRLFRIENDS’ GUIDE TO DIVORCE and all six groundbreaking seasons of Showtime’s Emmy-nominated series THE L WORD, for which she was the recipient of the Hollywood Style Award – Best Costumes. Cynthia is praised for the chic looks she develops for various characters. Her style choices move flawlessly from the screen to viewers’ closets as she presents versatile options, visually defining each character in a way that connects with consumers.  Cynthia’s outstanding and diverse resume of 60+ credits includes FOX’s Emmy-winning series BONES, her creations on the prequel cadet academy world of Halo for Microsoft’s series adaptation of HALO 4: FORWARD UNTO DAWN as well as her film work, including BEAUTIFUL BOY, APOLLO 18,  and THE SHOW starring Giancarlo Esposito, Josh Duhamel, James Franco, and Famke Janssen to name a few.  Information above via their homepage.

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Costume Design:
1994  Double Happiness
1995  Circumstances Unknown
1995  Hard Evidence
1995  Suspicious Agenda
1996  Brothers of the Frontier
1996  Color Me Perfect
1996  Dead Ahead
1996  Mask of Death
1996  Maternal Instincts
1996  Sweet Dreams
1996  The Halfback of Notre Dame
1997  The Right Connections
1999  Brotherhood of Murder
2000  Frankie & Hazel
2000  Middlemen
2000  Ratz
2000  Take Me Home: The John Denver Story
2002  Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story
2006  The Butterfly Effect 2
2007  War
2009  American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
2011  Apollo 18
2011  Beautiful Boy
2011  Honey 2
2012  Abducted: The Carlina White Story
2012  California Solo
2012  Imaginary Friend
2013  Stalkers
2014  Feed the Gods
2017  Story of a Girl
2017  The Show
2021  Swan Song

Costume Designer:
1994  Double Happiness
1994  Power Play
1995  Circumstances Unknown
1995  Hard Evidence
1995  Suspicious Agenda
1996  Brothers of the Frontier
1996  Color Me Perfect
1996  Dead Ahead
1996  Mask of Death
1996  Maternal Instincts
1996  Sweet Dreams
1996  The Halfback of Notre Dame
1997  The Right Connections
1998  American Dragons
1999  Brotherhood of Murder
2000  A Storm in Summer
2000  Frankie & Hazel
2000  Middlemen
2000  Ratz
2000  Take Me Home: The John Denver Story
2001  Off Season
2002  I Was a Teenage Faust
2002  Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story
2006  The Butterfly Effect 2
2007  War
2008  While She Was Out
2009  American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
2011  Apollo 18
2011  Beautiful Boy
2011  Honey 2
2012  Abducted: The Carlina White Story
2012  California Solo
2012  Imaginary Friend
2013  Stalkers
2014  Feed the Gods
2017  Story of a Girl
2017  The Show
2021  Swan Song

Costume Design:
2002  The Dead Zone
2005  Bones
2012  Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
2014  Intruders
2017  A Series of Unfortunate Events
2023  The Last of Us
????  Lanterns

Costume Designer:
2002  The Dead Zone
2005  Bones
2012  Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
2014  Intruders
2017  A Series of Unfortunate Events
2018  Altered Carbon
2020  Snowpiercer
2021  Resident Alien
2023  The Last of Us
????  Lanterns

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