11 Facts About Jeannine Oppewall

Jeannine Claudia Oppewall was born on November 28,1946 and is an American film art director.

Jeannine Oppewall was born on November 28,1946, and was raised in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, with a Calvinist upbringing.

Jeannine Oppewall's father was a tool and die maker Garrett Oppewall and her mother was Eva Boutiler.

Jeannine Oppewall then studied medieval history at Bryn Mawr College in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania.

Jeannine Oppewall obtained her master's degree from Bryn Mawr in 1969 and moved to Los Angeles, California.

Jeannine Oppewall has claimed she got the job while visiting the Charles Eames office as a guest and, upon leaving, casually asked a secretary whether there were any jobs available.

Jeannine Oppewall began her career as a set and production designer in the early 1980s, with such films as the 1981 Brian De Palma thriller Blow Out.

When Jeannine Oppewall was assigned art director for the 2006 spy film The Good Shepherd, it took her a week to organize the number of set locations due to the large amounts of settings in the script, which included Cuba, Guatemala, Leopoldville, London, Moscow, New York and New Haven, Connecticut, among other places.

Jeannine Oppewall built sets based on Skull and Bones, Central Intelligence Agency and other clandestine organizations after she consulted with a former CIA operative and researched books of interviews with spy agency insiders.

Since the lead character played by Matt Damon originally aspired to be a poet, Jeannine Oppewall incorporated many visual poetic symbols into the film, including a large number of mirrors to represent the duplicity of the CIA, full-rigged ships as symbols of the state and eagle symbols, which were used in ironic situations such as suspect interrogations.

In 2000, Jeannine Oppewall tore down the bungalow and built a larger modern house in the style of Charles and Ray Eames because she "did not want my house to conflict with my furniture," which she bought while working for the Eameses.