Gretchen Rau

Gretchen Rau (* 6. July 1939 in New Orleans ; † 29. March 2006 in Northport ) was an American stage designer and film production designer .

The first film Gretchen Rau was involved in was the 1980 film Atlantic City, USA by Louis Malle . Here she was still an assistant in the props department. Just two years later, in Lewis Teague's Fatal Reckoning , she was responsible for the film's set design. In the following years she was involved in increasingly important productions and worked several times with the directors Alan Parker , Edward Zwick , Lasse Hallström , Robert Redford , Robert Benton , Fred Schepisi and Richard Pearce as well as with Norman Mailer , Frank Oz , Barbet Schroeder and Brad Silberling , Rob Reiner , Neil Jordan , Nicholas Hytner , Alan J. Pakula , Peter Sellars , Robert Wise , Michael Winner , Michael Cimino , Sergio Leone , M. Night Shyamalan , Wes Anderson , Rob Marshall and Robert De Niro together. She has been involved in almost 40 cinema productions. She was nominated for an Oscar twice, in 2004 for The Last Samurai and 2006 for Memoirs of a Geisha , which she also won in 2006. Less than four weeks after winning the Oscar, Rau died of a brain tumor . In the end credits of the film The Good Shepherd is remembered in memory of her by naming her.

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SURNAME	Rough, Gretchen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American set designer and film set designer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 2006
Place of death	Northport