Marion Boyce Bio
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Marion Boyce is an internationally renowned costume designer working across film, television and public exhibitions in Australia and overseas. Her signature lies in turning garments into narrative devices—infusing character arcs with texture, colour and period authenticity.
In 2025, Marion won the AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in Television for Ladies in Black.
In 2021 Marion was nominated for the AACTA Best Costume for her work on The Newsreader.
In 2017 Marion was nominated for the 19th Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Period Film for her work on The Dressmaker.
In 2016 she was nominated for the San Diego Film Critics Society Award and Online Film & Television Association (OFTA) for Best Costume Design for The Dressmaker.
In 2015 she won the AACTA Award for Best Costume Design on a Feature Film for her work on The Dressmaker and was also nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in a Television Series for her work on Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Series 3.
In 2014, Marion won the AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in a Television Series for her work on Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Series 2.
She was nominated for an Emmy and a Costume Designer’s Guild Award in 2008 for her work on The Starter Wife.
Boyce’s credits include the TV series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Series 1, 2 and 3; The Hollowmen, The Starter Wife and Nightmares, Dreamscapes and The Gloaming; The Newsreader.
Films include Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Joey, Zeus and Roxanne, The Dressmaker, and the television movies Hercules, Salem’s Lot, The Echo of Thunder, Noah’s Ark and Moby Dick.
Most recently, Marion has worked on The Artful Dodger Season 2. She has also worked on the 2024 feature film Dangerous Animals. In 2023, she was filming Ladies in Black, a six-part series set in the early 1960s. 2022 Run Rabbit Run for Carver Films including Nautilus for Disney Episodes 8, 9 and 10. In 2020-2021 The Newsreader for ABC TV and Barons for FremantleMedia, as well as the pre-trailer for the in development The Secret Life of Dresses.
Marion has also designed several touring exhibitions, including Miss Fisher Series 2 and 3 and The Dressmaker—recently shown in Albury and at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra. Marion designed and curated an exhibition for The National Trust of South Australia, The Age of Elegance and designed and curated an exhibition from her private collection, The Bowerbird and The Bride, which toured regional Australia.