Kimberly Adams
Kimberly is an international costume designer with a diverse body of work, spanning genres and budgets.
Kimberly recently shot in Saudi Arabia the action film Kandahar, Ric Roman Waugh’s feature film starring Gerard Butler, Navid Negahban and an international cast and crew, opening this Memorial Day weekend for Open Road Films. Kimberly previously worked with Ric Roman Waugh on the action film Snitch starring Dwayne Johnson & John Bernthal.
For Television, Kimberly has established the iconic looks of the Duffer Brothers Stranger Things season 1 for Netflix and garnered a nomination from the Costume Designers Guild for outstanding Period Television. She also designed Halt and Catch Fire, AMC’s critically acclaimed 1980s series starring Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis. Kimberly also established the pilot looks on Showtime's hit series City on a Hill set in 1990’s Boston. She also designed the popular Disney series Lizzie McGuire creating iconic looks for those beloved characters. Kimberly’s latest work, a spy thriller series by Taylor Sheridan called Lioness, starring Zoe Saldana, Nicole Kidman, Laysla DeOliveira and Jill Wagner, which will be seen later this year on Paramount Plus.
A graduate of FIDM Los Angeles, she began her career in the fashion industry in New York, only to return to Los Angeles in 1988 to break into the film industry. Mentoring under costume design luminaries Isis Mussenden, Richard Hornung, and the legendary Julie Weiss working on critically acclaimed features of the !990s & 2000’s.
She resides in Southern California with her husband Bill Galligan and 2 dogs.
