Biography
Ann Roth is an American costume designer. Born on 30 October 1931 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and began her career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera before apprenticing with Irene Sharaff.
Roth has designed costumes for more than one hundred films, including The English Patient (1996), for which she won an Academy Award, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), for which she won a second Oscar. Other credits include Midnight Cowboy (1969), Working Girl (1988), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Closer (2004), Mamma Mia! (2008) and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023). She has also worked extensively in theatre and received a Tony Award.
