Lisa Westcott

Lisa Westcott is a British makeup artist and hairdresser who has been nominated three times for an Oscar and received it in 2013 for Les Misérables . In addition, she received five out of eight possible BAFTA awards for her craft.

Career

Lisa Westcott started out as a makeup artist for television series . In 1994 she was hired for a movie for the first time to do the make-up and hairstyles for the British tragic comedy King George . For her performance in this film, she received a BAFTA Award for best make-up and hair design. For her work on the mask for Her Majesty Mrs. Brown , Westcott received her first Oscar nomination for Best Make-up in 1998 . A year later she was nominated a second time, this time for her work in Shakespeare in Love . Westcott's last nomination for an Academy Award was in 2013 with Julie Dartnell for Les Misérables , which they also won. Both received a BAFTA award in the same category .

Filmography (selection)

• 1977: Survivors (TV series, episode)
• 1980: The Question of Guilt (TV series, eight episodes)
• 1981: The Borgias (TV series, ten episodes)
• 1993–1996: The Brittas Empire (TV series, 30 episodes)
• 1994: King George - The Madness of Kind George
• 1997: Her Majesty Mrs. Brown (Mrs. Brown)
• 1998: Shakespeare in Love
• 2001: From Hell
• 2004: Stage Beauty
• 2006: Miss Potter
• 2006: Notes on a Scandal (Notes on a Scandal)
• 2007: The Santa Claus Brothers (Fred Claus)
• 2010: Wolfman
• 2011: Captain America - The First Avenger (Captain America: The First Avenger)
• 2012: Les Misérables

Web links

• Lisa Westcott in the Internet Movie Database (English)