Kristina Gwyn Zea was born on October 24,1948 and is an American production designer, costume designer, art director, director and producer in film and television.
20 Facts About Kristi Zea
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Kristina Gwyn Zea was born on October 24,1948, in New York City.
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Kristi Zea's father was James Gwyn Zea; her mother, Alice Joy Zea, was a list broker.
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Kristi Zea grew up in the Stuyvesant Town residential development in Manhattan.
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Kristi Zea continued on this job for four years after graduation.
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Kristi Zea was hired by Woody Allen as the design coordinator for his 1978 film Interiors.
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Kristi Zea designed costumes for three Alan Parker films, Fame, Shoot the Moon, and Birdy, and worked as art director for Parker's Angel Heart.
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Kristi Zea first worked with Martin Scorsese as production designer for his segment of New York Stories.
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Kristi Zea worked for James L Brooks as costume designer on Terms of Endearment, associate producer on Broadcast News, and producer on As Good As It Gets.
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Kristi Zea designed "outrageous" costumes for the 1986 stage production of The Balcony, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, at the American Repertory Theater.
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The script tersely described the room in which the police officers found their fallen comrades as "a snapshot from hell"; Kristi Zea created the look and the contents.
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Kristi Zea similarly invented the look of Dr Lecter's dungeon-like room with its unusual paraphernalia, and Demme used this visual imagery "to pace the film in the absence of words".
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Kristi Zea served as associate producer for the 1986 film Lucas.
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Kristi Zea served as associate producer and second unit director on Philadelphia.
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Kristi Zea co-produced As Good as It Gets with James L Brooks and Bridget Johnson.
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Kristi Zea produced and production designed The Joneses starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny.
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Kristi Zea directed a 1990 music video for Laurie Anderson, and a 1991 half-hour HBO television film, A Domestic Dilemma, produced by Jonathan Demme.
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Kristi Zea was a faculty member of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts from 2005 to 2008.
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Kristi Zea was nominated in the category of Best Art Direction for Revolutionary Road, and in the category of Best Picture for As Good as It Gets, which she co-produced.
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Since 2004, Kristi Zea has resided in Valley Cottage, New York, in a home she redecorated with an eclectic selection of items, including props from The Silence of the Lambs, Sleepers, and The Departed.