Ellen Mirojnick’s creative roots run deep. Born and raised in New York City, her early interests in fine art, photography, and fashion led to the prestigious High School of Music and Art. After graduation, she further pursued her study of design at The School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design.

Mirojnick entered the world of fashion after Parsons School of Design. Her fashion-forward instincts quickly propelled her to become one of the most sought-after designers in the field. Her talent for creating a youthful, au-courant style reverberated throughout the industry.

It wasn’t long before Mirojnick set her sights on Hollywood, beginning a career that has spanned three decades. As a pre-eminent Hollywood costume designer, Mirojnick’s passion for contemporary design has had an impact on motion picture style. Mirojnick’s film work has exhibited a sophisticated, timeless approach to modern storytelling and has yielded iconic characters that have become cultural references.

She has been nominated twice for BAFTA and Emmy® Awards, winning the Emmy for Behind the Candelabra. In 1998, she received a Saturn Award for her work in Starship Troopers and has been honored with the Cutty Sark Menswear Award for her sartorial statement on Wall Street.

Mirojnick has been nominated by her peers on multiple occasions for the CDG Award, winning for Behind the Candelabra, The Knick, and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and in 2016 was honored with the Career Achievement Award.

The list of prominent filmmakers Mirojnick has designed for is extensive and includes Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Paul Verhoven, Tony and Ridley Scott, Kathryn Bigelow, J.J. Abrams, and Angelina Jolie, to name a few.

In 2010 she collaborated with actor James Franco to create images that were included in Visionaire 59: Fairytales. Subsequently, Mirojnick joined forces with artist Richard Phillips to create videos that were exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Thanks to this partnership, Mirojnick continues as an innovator at the crossroads of fashion, art, and film.

Mirojnick has lectured at UCLA, the Lincoln Center Film Society, the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has been profiled in numerous international fashion publications, as well as on AMC’s Hollywood Fashion Machine series, The Costume Designer. In addition, she is also featured in the design book Filmcraft.

Her work has been displayed in the “50 Designers/50 Films” exhibit at AMPAS, the Florence Biennale, FIDM’s Annual Film and Television Exhibits in 2011-2020 and 2015, and the “Hollywood Costume“ exhibition, which originated at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

Mirojnick’s diverse range speaks for itself, as her most recent credits include, the musical The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackman, Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat, as well as Let Them All Talk starring Meryl Streep, Mirojnick earned two nominations from the Costume Designers Guild this year; Excellence in Contemporary Design for The Laundromat and a win for Excellence in Sci/fi Fantasy for Maleficent Mistress of Evil, starring Angelina Jolie. Mirojnick designed Cannon’s adaptation of Cinderella for Columbia Pictures, Steven Soderbergh’s Kimi, Christopher Nolan’s incredibly successful Oppenheimer, and most recently, Scott Derrickson’s The Gorge.