# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-e-carter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:57:33.028Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-e-carter"
name: "Ruth E. Carter"
slug: "ruth-e-carter"
description: "Ruth E. Carter is an American costume designer for film and television. She is best known for her collaborations with Spike Lee, John Singleton, and Ryan Coogler. During her film career, Carter has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, for her work on Lee's biographical film Malcolm X (1992), Steven Spielberg's historical drama film Amistad (1997), and won twice for Coogler's Marvel superhero films Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022); this made her the first African-American to win and be nominated for Best Costume Design. She was nominated for a fifth time for her work in Coogler's Sinners (2025), breaking the record for most-nominated Black woman in Oscar history."
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1960-04-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump