![]() ![]() Horn was the assistant costume designer on Elizabeth I, and the couple won an Emmy award for the show. O’Neill met Samantha Horn while they were working at the costume supplier Angels, they married in 1999, and they continued to work together in costuming. On an actor, inhabiting their character - that is what they were for.” As pretty things on mannequins, they were uninteresting. He was completely unsentimental about them. “Although his taste was refined, his choices of fabric lustrous and in jewel-like colours, Mike’s costumes were there to serve the drama, nothing else. Alex Fordham was costume assistant to Mike O’Neill for both The Last King and Elizabeth I, and said: Those he worked with on these productions expressed their great appreciation for O’Neill’s designs in his obituary that ran in The Independent. Looking through his CV, I’m impressed at how well he captured different periods with a sense of depth and detail that feels true. He worked primarily in British TV, after studying theatre design at Nottingham University and working for 12 years in costume design at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Such is the case with Michael O’Neill, who passed away in 2018. Sometimes you don’t realize how many of your favorite gorgeously costumed productions were designed by the same person. ![]()
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