Ruth E. Carter

Q: Has Ruth E. Carter won any awards?

Yes, Ruth E. Carter won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for 'Black Panther' in 2019, making her the first African American to achieve this honor.

Q: What was Ruth E. Carter's first film?

Ruth E. Carter's first film was 'School Daze' in 1988, directed by Spike Lee, which marked the beginning of her successful career in costume design.

Q: Which films are considered Ruth E. Carter's most successful?

Some of Ruth E. Carter's most successful films include 'Black Panther', 'Malcolm X', and 'Selma', all of which received critical acclaim for their costume design.

Q: What is known about Ruth E. Carter's personal life?

Ruth E. Carter has one child named Zuri and was previously married to Tony Carter from 1992 to 2012. She often shares insights about her life and career in interviews.

Q: What is Ruth E. Carter's estimated net worth?

Ruth E. Carter's estimated net worth is around $2 million, reflecting her successful career as a costume designer in the film industry.

Q: What are some milestones in Ruth E. Carter's filmography?

Milestones in Ruth E. Carter's filmography include her work on 'Black Panther', which earned her an Oscar, and her collaborations with directors like Spike Lee, which helped shape her career.

Q: How has Ruth E. Carter influenced the costume design industry?

Ruth E. Carter has influenced the costume design industry by bringing cultural authenticity and historical context to her designs, inspiring future generations of costume designers.

Known for

Black Panther (2018)

IMDb 7.3 / 10

2018 / Action, Adventure / 134 min

King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds...

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

IMDb 6.7 / 10

2022 / Action, Adventure / 154mins

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s...

Sinners (2025)

2025 / Action, Adventure / 131mins

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil...

Name

Ruth E. Carter

Height

5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Born

10 April 1969, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Spouses

Tony Carter (1992–2012)

Children

1 child, named Zuri

Parents

Evelyn Carter, William Carter

Estimated Net Worth

$2 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2023	Movie Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Follow the production of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” as the cast and crew take on the incredible challenge of remembering...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2022	Movie 20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda Exploring the evolution of Black Panther from the comic emerging in the 1960s to the film the world fell in...	Self	TMDB 3.7 / 10
2019	TV Tamron Hall Former news host and journalist Tamron Hall discusses all things topical and engages those she interviews in thorough meaningful and...	Self - Guest	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2018	TV Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' A unique portrait of how art and activism for black people in film are indivisible from race and cinema.	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2017	TV Abstract: The Art of Design Step inside the minds of the most innovative designers in a variety of disciplines and learn how design impacts every...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2016	TV To Tell the Truth A modern reimagination of the classic game show. In each round, a celebrity panel will be presented with three people...	Self - Costume Designer for Black Panther	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2008	Movie Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies For over five decades, Edith Head's costumes helped define not only the style of Hollywood movies, but fashion itself. This...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2005	Movie By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X."	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2027	Movie The Thomas Crown Affair In Europe, a bored young businessman decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	Not rated
2025	Movie The Pickup A routine cash pickup takes a wild turn when mismatched armored truck drivers Russell and Travis are ambushed by ruthless...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2025	Movie Sinners Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	Movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	Movie Coming 2 America Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2019	Movie Dolemite Is My Name The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2019	Movie Above Suspicion The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2018	Movie Black Panther King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader....	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2017	Movie Marshall Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2017	Movie Kidnap A mother (in her Minivan) stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2016	Movie Keeping Up with the Joneses An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2016	TV Roots An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2015	Movie Chi-Raq A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	Movie Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood....	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2014	Movie Selma "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2014	Movie The Best of Me A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2014	TV Cosmos Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides clarity for the vision of the cosmos as he voyages across the universe with...	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2013	Movie Oldboy A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2013	Movie The Butler Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2013	Movie Teen Beach Movie Life's a beach for surfers Brady and McKenzie – until a rogue wave magically transports them inside the classic '60s...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2012	Movie Sparkle Musical prodigy, Sparkle struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2011	Movie Abduction For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems....	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2010	Movie Frankie & Alice A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2009	Movie Black Dynamite This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2009	Movie Bring It On: Fight to the Finish When her mother falls for a wealthy man, Lina Cruz must move in with her new stepfather and transfer from...	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2009	Movie Imagine That A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie Spread A gigolo must contend with the prospect that he has found true love.	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2008	Movie Meet Dave A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2006	TV Thief Nick Atwater, the leader of a robbery crew, is balancing his personal life with the planning of a major heist...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	Movie Serenity When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2005	Movie Four Brothers Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2004	Movie Against the Ropes A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed...	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2003	Movie Daddy Day Care Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2002	Movie I Spy When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2001	Movie Baby Boy The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2001	Movie Dr. Dolittle 2 A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2000	Movie Bamboozled Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2000	Movie Shaft New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears,...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2000	Movie Love & Basketball Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1999	Movie Summer of Sam Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1998	Movie How Stella Got Her Groove Back Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1997	Movie Amistad In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	Movie B.A.P.S Two wannabe Black American princesses aim to marry rich men, who will pay for their world's first combination hair salon...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1997	Movie Rosewood Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1996	Movie The Great White Hype When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1995	Movie Money Train When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1995	Movie Clockers Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1994	Movie Cobb Al Stump is a famous sports-writer chosen by Ty Cobb to co-write his official, authorized 'autobiography' before his death. Cobb,...	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1994	Movie Crooklyn From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1994	Movie Surviving the Game A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1993	Movie The Meteor Man One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1993	Movie What's Love Got to Do with It Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1992	Movie Malcolm X A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1991	Movie House Party 2 Kid'N'Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in...	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1991	Movie Jungle Fever A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1991	Movie The Five Heartbeats In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats....	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	Movie Mo' Better Blues Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1990	Movie Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella A 1990 PBS documentary around the topic of A cappella music. Artists that performed as part of the documentary include...	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1989	TV Seinfeld A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1989	Movie Do the Right Thing Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1988	Movie I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1988	Movie School Daze Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.	Costume Designer Costume & Make-Up	TMDB 5.7 / 10
TBA	Movie Untitled Hannibal Film Hannibal the Great, one of history's greatest military commanders, leads the forces of Carthage against the Roman Republic during the...	Costume Design Costume & Make-Up	Not rated

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

2023 / TMDB 6.3

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda

2022 / TMDB 3.7

Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies

2008 / TMDB 6.0

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

2005 / TMDB 6.0

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Known for

Black Panther (2018)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Sinners (2025)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda

Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

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