Nina Ayres

Nina Ayres is a British costume designer for film and television. Most recently she was Costume Designer on A Tale of Two Cities (BBC / MGM+, 2026). Her other credits as Costume Designer include Atomic (Sky, 2025), Carnival Row season 2 (Amazon Prime Video) and The Last Kingdom, and she was Co-Costume Designer on Outlander season 4, for which she received a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination. She spent five seasons on Game of Thrones, rising from senior breakdown artist to assistant costume designer, and won a Primetime Emmy in 2014 as part of the show’s costume team. Her work also includes The Crown, Ali and Nino, Fortitude and The Great. Nina trained in Theatre Design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating with first-class honours, and began her career in theatre, dance and outdoor performance. She is the author of Creating Outdoor Theatre (Crowood Press).