Franca Squarciapino

Costume & Make-Up Jan 1, 1940 (86 years old) Rome, Lazio, Italy

Franca Squarciapino (born 1940) is an Italian costume designer who won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1990 for Cyrano de Bergerac. She has spent much of her career designing costumes for major theatres and opera houses, including the Burgtheater in Vienna, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Zurich Opera among others.

Squarciapino frequently collaborated with Ezio Frigerio (1930-2022), who is also her life partner.

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4 Acting Credits

20 Crew Credits

Acting

Movie

Mademoiselle de Maupin

as First Maestro

1966

Stars 90

as Self

1990

Movie

Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreams

2016

Quelli che il cinema

as Self

Costume Designer

2009