Over the past decade, Jaclyn Banner has established herself as one of the most talented and creative costume designers in the business. Having transitioned from wardrobe styling into costume design, she came into the business with an added flare for style and a keen eye to design original costumes with calculated details that help tell the story of who the characters are in a realistic way – a trait well admired by her clients. Her credits show how her eccentric mind works, with projects exhibiting her range of design – from contemporary, fantasy, sci-fi, action, thriller and period genres.
She has worked on a number of acclaimed projects, including Jordan Peele’s GET OUT and all of the installments of The Hunger Games.
She has designed a variety of features including director Quincy Ledbetter’s Alieu the Dreamer for Paramount+ & BET’s Project Cre8, the NAACP Image Awards nominated Behind the Movement (chronicling the history of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott) directed by Aric Avelino and Netflix’s action thriller Edge of Fear for director Bobby Roth and the Reverse Cowboys (Jared Lapidus and James Kilmoon) sports slapstick comedy Office Race (starring Joel McHale and Kelsey Grammar) for Paramount +.
She is also known for her designs for television, such as three seasons of AMC’s anthology series Creepshow on Shudder, the latter episodes of season one of the Emmy nominated series The Ms. Pat Show and season one of Kingdom Business, the #1 show on BET+ for 2022.
From her work on the highly anticipated adaptation of Octavia Butler’s novel KINDRED for FX on HULU, which also received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Breakthrough Creative, Jaclyn received a Black Reel TV Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design.
Additionally, she has designed projects for Amazon, Cinemax, Comedy Central, Disney+, Lifetime, Lionsgate, STARZ and USA. She has styled key art, gallery shoots and promos for networks such as BET, FX, Lifetime and USA, along with editorials and commercials.
Jaclyn is an active member of the Costume Designers Guild in Los Angeles, California.
