Laurie Drew

Laurie Drew (* in Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian costume designer in television series and films.

Life

Drew was born in a small town near Toronto . Her mother was a teacher. The father was a police officer with the Ontario Provincial Police during Drew's childhood in the 1960s . He later became a businessman. Drew graduated from Brock University in Toronto. She attended acting classes and played an old man from the Italian Commedia dell'arte in a play by Molière . At a young age, she traveled to various European countries for a long time, for example Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands. She speaks some French and Italian. She then lived for three years with her husband, whom she has since divorced, in Key West , Florida , with a friend of her then-husband's. There she opened a successful boutique for swimwear mostly for women in the 1970s. She got the offer to work for a film in Montreal and then lived there for about ten years. An acquaintance of hers, the producer Robert Lantos , introduced her to costume design. She acquired and expanded her experience in some low budget films through practical work. In Toronto, she worked on the police series In the Heat of the Night ( Night Heat ). She moved there and has now practiced her profession for about twenty-five years, mainly in television productions.

Drew's fashion designs received attention at various award ceremonies. In 1995 she was nominated for the historic miniseries Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story at the CableACE Awards . At the Gemini Awards , she was also nominated for this film in 1996. In the spring of 1998, in 1999 and 2000, she was nominated for the dramatic agent series Nikita . In the fall of 1998 she won this Canadian award for the episode 2.05 Change of Leadership ( New Regime ) of this television series, which was largely conceived by producer Joel Nachbarow and brought to life by the leading actors Peta Wilson and Roy Dupuis . In addition to production designer Rocco Matteo, Drew shaped the minimalist style and the characteristic look of the series, in which the appearance often reveals more than the sparse words.

Filmography

Costume designer

• 1982: Hard Feelings
• 1985: In the Heat of the Night ( Night Heat ) (episode: Necessary Force )
• 1986: Sword of Gideon
• 1986: The Totally Crazy Clique - Lucky Harry ( Perfect Timing )
• 1986: Affair season ( separate vacations )
• 1988: Spies, Spies Everywhere ( Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs )
• 1991: The Price of Beauty ( Drop Dead Gorgeous )
• 1992: Scanners III ( Scanners III: The Takeover )
• 1992: Scream if you can ( In the Eyes of a Stranger )
• 1992: Law for an eternity ( The Good Fight )
• 1993: The Witness at the Window ( Blood Brothers )
• 1993: Bonds of Love
• 1993: Family of Strangers
• 1994: I 'let you alone ( And Then There Was One )
• 1995: Spenser: A Savage Place
• 1995: The Face of Terror ( Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story )
• 1995: Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
• 1995: The Silence of Adultery
• 1995: Money Kills ( Where's the Money, Noreen? )
• 1996: Double Risk ( Double Jeopardy )
• 1996: Abduction from passion ( The Abduction )
• 1997–2001: Nikita ( La Femme Nikita ) (TV series)
• 2001: Other People
• 2001-2004: Mutant X (TV series)
• 2004: Crimes of Fashion
• 2005: G-Spot (TV series)

Furthermore

• 1980: Agency - Embassy of evil ( Agency ) - as assistant unit manager
• 1989: Renegades - On your own ( Renegades ) - as assistant costume designer
• 1990: Uncut Gem - as a wardrobe mistress

literature

• Christopher Heyn : Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV's La Femme Nikita , Los Angeles: Persistence of Vision Press, September 2006, English, ISBN 0-9787625-0-9 . Pages 195-200 are about Laurie Drew, who was interviewed, on the series.

Web links

• Laurie Drew in the Internet Movie Database (English)