WENDY CHUCK's (costume designer) first feature film credit as designer, A Country Life, starring Sam Neill and Greta Scacchi, earned her an Australian Film Institute Award nomination for best costume. She has since designed costumes for Alexander Payne's critically acclaimed award-winning satire Election. She has also served as the costume designer on the box-office success Varsity Blues, as well as on Strange Hearts, Auggie Rose and Sugar and Spice. She is currently at work on Terry Zwigoff's (Ghost World) new film.

Ms. Chuck began her career working in her native Australia in theater, opera, and television. She shared her tenure at the Queensland Theater Company with Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush. She also worked on costumes for the Australian Opera Company and on many productions for ABCTV in Australia.

After working on Jane Campion's telefilm 2 Friends, she reunited with two-time Academy Award nominee Janet Patterson on Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady and The Piano.