Eduardo Castro

Eduardo Castro is one of the most beloved, skilled and innovative costume designers working today. His career spans over 25 years, encompassing contemporary, fantasy and period costume design.

Upon completing his Masters Degree in Costume Design at Carnegie Mellon University, Eduardo embarked on a professional apprenticeship at Western Costume Company in Hollywood. It was at Western that he nurtured his professional relationships assisting a variety of established costume designers such as Ann Roth, Theadora Van Runkle and Julie Weiss, among others.

After working on the series Fame for a year, famed designer Milena Canonero asked Eduardo to collaborate on the series Miami Vice. The iconic series’ fourth season served as his design debut. It was the Goldie Hawn/Mel Gibson action-packed, romantic romp Bird On A Wire (1990) that served as his introduction as a designer for the big screen. This was soon followed by films such as Shout (1991) starring John Travolta, Sugar Hill (1993) for director Leon Ichaso and The Perez Family (1995).

Castro’s other credits include Kama Sutra, A Tale of Love (1996) for Mira Nair, What’s Cooking (2000) and Bride And Prejudice (2004) for Gurinder Chadha.

In addition to these films Eduardo continued his relationship with Milena Canonero by serving as an associate designer on Warren Beatty’s political satire Bulworth (1998) and Steven Soderburgh’s outer space adventure Solaris (2002).

It was in television where Castro seemed to find his groove. He served as designer for two Oprah Winfrey productions, the miniseries The Wedding (1998) and the television film Their Eyes Are Watching God (2005), both starring Oscar winner, Halle Berry.

It was his work on Also Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) for director Bruce Beresford, starring Antonio Banderas that gained him his first of five Emmy nominations. This was soon followed by an Emmy nomination and a Costume Designers Guild Award for The CBS Television film Elvis (2005), starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

The beloved fashion meets family television series Ugly Betty (2006-2008) came next. Castro’s bold, eye-catching, high fashion designs earned him three Costume Designers Guild Awards and two Emmy nominations.

Castro wove his costume magic through the television series Pepper Dennis (2006) and Eastwick (2009) before taking on his most creative and rewarding challenge to date, ABC’s Once Upon A Time (2011). The series, filmed in Vancouver, provides an all-new spin on classic fairy tale characters, and their modern day counterparts. In 2012, Once Upon A Time earned Castro another Emmy and Costume Designers Guild Award nomination.