Mayes C. Rubeo
Mayes Castillero de Rubeo is a Mexican costume designer.
Life and career
Rubeo moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles in the 1980s, where she attended Los Angeles Trade Tech. After graduating, she moved to Italy to work with Italian Costume Designer Enrico Sabbatini. To this day, Rubeo maintains a workshop in Italy.[1]
She got her start in Hollywood working as a costume designer for John Sayles (Men With Guns, Sunshine State) but her big breakthrough came in 2006 when she was engaged as a costume designer for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. Three years later she worked with James Cameron on Avatar, for which she was nominated for the Costume Designers Guild Award in the Excellence in Fantasy Film category.
Rubeo was born Mayes Castillero, in Mexico City, in 1962. Until his death in 2011 she was married to the Italian production designer Bruno Rubeo. Their son, Marco Rubeo, is an Art Director.[2]
Filmography
- The Arrival (1996)
- Men with Guns (1997)
- Inferno (1999)
- Warden of Red Rock (2001)
- Fidel (2002)
- Sunshine State (2002)
- Casa de los babys (2003)
- The Librarian – Quest for the Spear (2004)
- Apocalypto (2006)
- Dragonball Evolution (2009)
- Avatar (2009)
- John Carter (2012)
- World War Z (2013)
- Warcraft: The Beginning (2016)
- The Great Wall (2016)
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
References
- ↑ "Mayes C. Rubeo, from Mexico to Hollywood", MexicoNewsNetwork, 21 January 2016, retrieved 17 July 2017
- ↑ "Production Designer Bruno Rubeo Dies at 65", The Hollywood Reporter, 14 November 2011, retrieved 17 July 2017