Mindy Hall
Mindy Hall | |
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Alma mater | San Diego State University |
Occupation | Make-up artist |
Awards | 2009 Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling |
Mindy Hall is a
Career
Hall decided to pursue a career in Hollywood makeup at the age of 17. She attended San Diego State University, but she dropped out and instead joined the apprenticeship programme for makeup at the San Francisco Opera. Following her completion of the course, she worked with several regional opera companies to do makeup as well as hairstyling and wig construction.[1]
Mindy is co-author with Gretchen Davis of The Makeup Artist Handbook published by Focal Press.[1] She worked on a number of films, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,[2] P.S. I Love You and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.[1] As part of her work on 2009's Star Trek, she was involved in the redesign of the Romulan race seen in the film.[3] She was the department head of makeup on the film, where she led a team of over forty makeup artists as well as Joel Harlow and Barney Burman who designed the aliens seen in the movie.[4]
Awards
The make-up team working on Star Trek won an
References
- ^ a b c d Warshawski, Evy (August 16, 2011). "Makeup Artist from Napa Nominated for Emmy". Napa Valley Patch. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ Kornelis, Chris (August 1, 2014). "Academy Award-Winning Make-Up Artist Mindy Hall's Favorite Gadgets". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ Nazzaro, Joe (October 7, 2009). "Exclusive: The Secrets of Star Trek: Part Two". SciFiNow. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ Cohen, Sandy (March 7, 2010). "Final countdown: One more day until the Oscars". AP Online. Archived from the original on September 20, 2014. Retrieved September 19, 2014 – via HighBeam.com archives.
- ^ "The 82nd Academy Awards (2010) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ Ricapito, Maria (March 1, 2010). "Oscars: Laying it on Thick for Best Makeup". Vanity Fair. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ "Avatar and Star Trek clean up technical Oscars". SyFy. Archived from the original on October 13, 2014. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ Goldberg, Matt. "AVATAR Dominates at the Saturn Awards". Collider. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
External links
- Official website
- Mindy Hall at IMDb