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MICHELE BURKE IS A TWO-TIME ACADEMY AWARD WINNING MAKEUP ARTIST FOR THE FILMS, “BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA” AND “QUEST FOR FIRE” AS WELL AS BEING NOMINATED FOR “THE CELL”, “AUSTIN POWERS, THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME”, “CYRANO DE BERGERAC” AND “CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR”. MICHELE IS A TWO-TIME WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY AWARD FOR “CYRANO DE BERGERAC” AND “QUEST FOR FIRE” AND WAS NOMINATED FOR, “INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE”.
IN ADDITION TO THIS, MICHELE WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE EMMY AWARD FOR “ALIEN NATION”. MICHELE HAS WORKED WITH MANY TALENTED PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING PATRICK SHAW, HELMUT NEWTON, AND HERB RITTS.
“I HAVE A VERY STRAIGHT FORWARD APPROACH TO MAKEUP… EXPLORE THE CREATIVE BOUNDARIES OF THE ASSIGNMENT WHILE KEEPING THE EXECUTION SIMPLE, QUICK AND EFFECTIVE.
MY INTENT IS, TO TRAP THE UGLINESS IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAUTY IN UGLINESS” — THE LATTER EXPOSES THE INNER-MOST HEART/DYNAMIC OF A CHARACTER – NO MATTER HOW DISTURBING AT FIRST. IT DRAWS ONE CLOSER AND OPENS UP AN EXTREME LEVEL OF HUMANITY AND COMPASSION, SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND THEIR EVIL, JUSTIFICATIONS AND RATIONALE”.
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MARSHALL
Makeup Design for Kate Hudson
THE SUPER
Special Makeup Design for Val Kilmer
CITIZEN TWAIN
Theatrical Production – Special Prosthetic Makeup Design for Val Kilmer as Mark Twain
THE HEIRESS
Broadway Show – 2013 Special Makeup Design for Jessica Chastain
OBLIVION
Universal – Director: Joseph Kosinski -Makeup Designer and Supervisor
ROCK OF AGES
New Line / Warner Brothers -Director: Adam Shankman – Special Tattoo Designs and Makeup for: Tom Cruise
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4; GHOST PROTOCAL
Paramount – Director: Brad Bird -Makeup Design and Supervision to Include Makeup FX. Makeup for Tom Cruise
KNIGHT AND DAY
20th Century Fox – Director: James Mangold – Personal Makeup for Tom Cruise
THERE BE DRAGONS
Director: Roland Joffe – Aging Design and Application for Wes Bentley
TROPIC THUNDER
Dreamworks – Director: Ben Stiller – Special Makeup Designs – Les Grossman
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III
Paramount Pictures -Director: J.J. Abrams -Makeup Designer and Supervisor: Tom Cruise, Kerri Russell, Michelle Monaghan
MONSTER HOUSE
Sony Pictures – Director: Gil Kenan – Makeup Creative Consultant
ELIZABETHTOWN
Paramount Pictures – Director: Cameron Crowe – Makeup Designer and Supervisor: Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Orlando Bloom
SPANGLISH
Sony Pictures – Director: James L. Brooks – Makeup Designer and Supervisor:Tea Leoni, Paz Vega
MINORITY REPORT
Fox/Dreamworks – Director: Steven Spielberg – Makeup Designer and Supervisor: Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Katherine Morris
VANILLA SKY
Paramount Pictures – Director: Cameron Crowe – Makeup Designer and Supervisor: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz
THE CELL
New Line Films – Director: Tarsem – Makeup Designer and Supervisor -Makeup For Jennifer Lopez – Special Makeup for Vincent D’Onofrio
*Academy Award Nominee *Makeup I.A. 706 Awards Nominee -Best Makeup
AUSTIN POWERS, THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME
New Line Films – Director: Jay Roach – Makeup Design and Supervision for: Mike Myers (Austin Powers, Dr. Evil) Mini-Me and more
*Academy Award Nominee ,*Makeup I.A. 706 Awards Nominee Best Special Effects MU, Best Period Makeup
AUSTIN POWERS AS GOLDMEMBER
New Line Films – Director: Jay Roach – Makeup Design and Supervision
THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER
Paramount Pictures Director: Simon West – Makeup for Madeleine Stowe
*Makeup I.A. 706 Awards Winner Best Contemporary Makeup
THE THIN RED LINE
United Artists – Director: Terrance Mallick – Makeup for John Travolta
GLORIA
Mandalay Films – Director: Sidney Lumet – Makeup Design and Application for Sharon Stone
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Tri-Star – Director: James L. Brooks- Makeup Supervisor and Designer – Makeup for Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear
JERRY MAGUIRE
Tri -Star Director: Cameron Crowe – Head of Department – Leads – Tom Cruise, Kelly Preston, Renee Zellwegger
MOLL FLANDERS
United Artists/Trilogy Entertainment -Director: Pen Densham – Makeup Designer and Department Head – Leads: Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman, and Stockard Channing – 16th &17th Century Makeup and Hairstyles (Age Progressions)
SOME MOTHER’S SON
Castle Rock – Director: Terry George – Producer: Jim Sheriden – Makeup and Hair Supervisor Character Makeup for “Hungerstrikers”
*Max Factor Makeup Award
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Warner Brothers/Geffen Films – Director: Neil Jordan – Makeup and Hair Department Supervisor – Leads- Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt
* Nominated for BAFTA for Best Makeup
BRAM STOKERS, DRACULA
Sony Pictures – Director: Francis Ford Coppola – Makeup Department Head – Design of Character Makeup and Victorian Hairstyles (spans 3 centuries)
* Academy Award Winner * British Academy Award Nominee * Saturn Award for Best Makeup
QUEST FOR FIRE
20th Century Fox – Head of Makeup and Hair Department -Supervised 25 man crew -Unique Makeup Designs for Neanderthal Tribes
* Academy Award for Makeup 1982 * British Academy Award 1982 * Saturn Award for Best Makeup
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Makeup Design of Prosthetic Nose & Age Progression for Gerard Depardieu
* British Academy Award 1992 * Oscar Nomination for Makeup 1991
CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
Warner Brothers – Co-head of Department – Supervised crew of 20
* Oscar Nomination for Makeup 1986
ICEMAN
Director: Fred Schepsi – Producer: Norman Jewison – Makeup of Iceman (Designed by Michael Westmore)
DREAM WEST
CBS Seven Hour Mini-Series – Period Makeup Design covering 40 years including prosthetic aging for Richard Chamberlain & F.Murray Abraham as Lincoln
L.B.J
NBC Three Hour Mini-Series – Makeup Design and Prosthetics for 10 lookalikes. Randy Quaid as L.B.J Period film covering 30 years
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LEADING LADIES: JESSICA CHASTAIN, KIRSTEN DUNST, JENNIFER LOPEZ, CAMERON DIAZ, PENELOPE CRUZ, BEYONCE, KERRI RUSSELL, ROBIN WRIGHT, SAMANTHA MORTON, WINONA RYDER, MICHELLE MONAGHAN, KELLY PRESTON, HELEN HUNT, JANE SEYMOUR, DARRYL HANNAH, HELEN MIRREN, STOCKARD CHANNING, SUSAN SARANDON, MADELEINE STOWE, SHARON STONE, TEA LEONI, PAZ VEGA, TILDA SWINTON, KATHERINE MORRIS, PAULA PATTON, OLGA KURYLENKO, ANDREA RISEBOROUGH
LEADING MEN: TOM CRUISE, ORLANDO BLOOM, JOHN TRAVOLTA, GREG KINNEAR, ANTONIO BANDERAS, BRAD PITT, MORGAN FREEMAN, MIKE MYERS, GARY OLDMAN, ANTHONY HOPKINS
DIRECTORS & PRODUCERS: STEVEN SPIELBERG, CAMERON CROWE, J.J. ABRAMS, TOMMY HARPER, BRYAN BURK, TERRY GEORGE, FRANCIS COPPOLA, JAY ROACH, JIM BROOKS, JOHN SCHOFIELD, JEAN JAQUES ANNAUD, LARRY MARK, NEIL JORDAN, PEN DENSHAM, SIDNEY LUMET, ROGER SPOTTISWOODE, JIM SHERIDEN, NORMAN JEWISON, FRED FUCHS, STRATTON LEOPOLD, MACE NEUFELD, TARSEM, DON LEE, BONNIE CURTIS, JOAN BRADSHAW, RICHARD SAKAI, GERALD MOLEN, JEAN PAUL RAPPINEAU, GARY FOSTER, FRED SCHEPSI, DAVID MATALON
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