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Georgina Chapman

Georgina Chapman is an actor, born 1976.

The acting is the smaller half of the record and it is worth saying so plainly. Chapman is a fashion designer, co-founder of the label Marchesa with Keren Craig, and her sustained television work is as a judge: a guest on Project Runway and then a regular on Project Runway All Stars from 2012 to 2019.

The screen acting is a short, tightly clustered run of small parts in British and American films made between 2003 and 2007. The character names tell the story without any help: Debutante in Shanghai Knights, Floozy 1 in Unleashed, TriBeCa Fashionista in The Nanny Diaries, Nola's Co-Worker in Match Point, Connie 1 in Piccadilly Jim, Candy in Derailed, an interviewer in Factory Girl. She is cast for poise and framing rather than for lines. Penny Carver in Awake is the largest of them, and Anne in Bride & Prejudice is the one people are most likely to have seen.

Wikipedia records that she was married to the film producer Harvey Weinstein and left him in 2017 in the wake of allegations of sexual abuse against him. The acting had effectively finished a decade earlier; the design house and the judging chair are the actual career, and the filmography here is best read as a brief early detour.

Movies (10)

TV (2)

Where to start with Georgina Chapman

There is no performance here that justifies a search on its own, so watch the films for the films. Match Point is the best of them by a wide margin and she is in it very briefly. Bride & Prejudice gives her the most visible part in a picture anyone rewatches. Awake is the largest role on the page, a thriller with a strong premise and a weaker execution. Factory Girl and Derailed are mid-2000s curiosities. If you actually want to see what she does well, skip the acting and go to Project Runway All Stars, where the design knowledge is the point and she is judging her own field rather than decorating someone else's frame.

Genres Georgina Chapman works in