Da'Vine Joy Randolph Is Ready to Slay the Red Carpet This Awards Season: 'I'm Doing Mood Boards' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Da’Vine Joy Randolph in 2023.Photo:Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

Da’Vine Joy Randolphwas born red carpet ready.

“I’m a fashion girl,” theGolden Globe nomineetells PEOPLE. “I love the details. For every red carpet I’m doing mood boards, I’m pulling hair references, nails references, makeup references, different swatches for a wardrobe.”

The 37-year-old Pennsylvania native has had plenty of opportunities to express her inner fashionista recently. For her critically acclaimed supporting performance inThe Holdovers, Randolph has appeared on dozens of awards shortlists — and on carpets for every industry event in town.

At the Nov. 27Gotham Awards, where Randolph kicked off the season with her first of many Supporting Actress honors, she wore a dramatic velvet gown in deep blue.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph at the Gotham Awards Nov. 27, 2023.Bryan Bedder/getty

Bryan Bedder/getty

But if anyone is prepared for that spotlight, it’s Randolph. “I’m so grateful for the opportunity and the potential love,” she says of this career moment. “And I’m super excited that if that happens, I get to wear beautiful gowns,” she adds with a laugh.

Nowhere was that philosophy more evident than at the Dec. 4 Critics Choice Association’s Celebration Of Cinema & Television Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements. Randolph added to her awards mantle with another Supporting Actress prize, accepting it in a long-sleeved yellow dress covered in ruffles.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Ruth E. Carter at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema & Television: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements on Dec. 4, 2023.Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

She continues, “I’ll be like, ‘Ruth, so this is the role that I’m playing. I’m thinking this. What do you think? Can I have them call you please so we can all be on the same page?’ She’s gone above and beyond even after that production to be so supportive.”

Carter’s prowess in the costuming world also means production teams have contacted her first before working with Randolph on her character’s looks. “I’ve done jobs where they were like, ‘We called Ruth because we wanted to come correct.’”

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ForThe Holdovers, “I wanted all her outfits to feel curated and thought of and well lived in,” Randolph says of the “always put-together” Mary, who “takes pride in how she looks.”

“I wanted people to think of their auntie, their grandmother, their mother,” she says of the character’s 1970s-era velvets and pastels. “Snatching me into the period helped me really lock in with her.”

Off screen, the actress uses herInstagramaccount to showcase her own put-together ensembles. At the Dec. 3 Academy Museum Gala at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, she made a bold fashion statement in a black evening gown with a long train, silver embellishments and accessories and a feathery metallic shawl.

Randolph says she’s grateful for this career moment and ready for whatever the universe might next land her. “Every time I think I’m in control and trying to do something, it doesn’t work,” she admits. “There’s nothing on my résumé that I went after.”

So going forward, she says, “I’m just hands off. I’m now like, ‘Okay, let’s go. Wherever you see me next.’”

The Holdoversis in theaters now and streaming on Peacock.

source: people.com