Michèle Burke

Michèle Burke (* 1959 in Kildare , Ireland ) is an American make-up artist of Irish descent who has received multiple awards for make-up in film productions .

biography

Michèle Burke began her work as a make-up artist in 1980 for the film Monster in the Night Express by Roger Spottiswoode and was then involved in the creation of over forty films.

For the makeup in Quest for Fire (1981) by Jean-Jacques Annaud she got together with Sarah Monzani 1983 not only the Oscar for best makeup , but together with Monzani and Christopher Tucker in 1983 the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Award) for the best mask .

At the Academy Awards in 1987 , she and Michael Westmore were nominated again for the Oscar for Best Make-up for the Mask in Ayla and the Clan of the Bear (1986) by Michael Chapman . In 1990 he was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding achievements in make-up in a television series , together with Rick Stratton , Richard Snell, Katalin Elek and Ken Diaz for the episode "Chains of Love" from the Spacecop LA series

For the mask in the period film Cyrano von Bergerac (1990) by Jean-Paul Rappeneau , she was not only nominated again for an Oscar for best make-up in 1991, together with Jean-Pierre Eychenne , but also won the British Academy Film in 1992 Award for the best mask. Together with Greg Cannom and Matthew W. Mungle , she not only received another Oscar for best make-up for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) by Francis Ford Coppola , but also won a Saturn Award for best make-up in 1993 the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films and in 1994 again nominated for the BAFTA Award for best mask.

In 1993 she was also together with Michael Mills again for an Emmy for outstanding achievements in make-up in the episode "Running Ghost" from the television series Dr. Quinn - a passionate doctor nominated. For the make-up in Interview with a Vampire (1994) by Neil Jordan , she was nominated not only for the Saturn Award , but also for the British Academy Film Award, together with Stan Winston and Jan Archibald . For the mask in the agent comedy Austin Powers - Spy in a secret missionary position (1999) by Jay Roach followed together with Mike Smithson in addition to a nomination for the Oscar for best make-up at the Academy Awards 2000 , together with Patty York , Cheryl Ann Nick , Steve Artmont as well as Kenny Myers , Will Huff and Kevin Haney also received two nominations for the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award . In 2000, along with Toni G , Will Huff and Michelle Bühler, she was nominated for another Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award for Defenseless - The General's Daughter (1999) by Simon West .

Together with Edouard F. Henriques , she was nominated again for an Oscar for best make-up in 2001 for the mask in the science fiction film The Cell (2000) by Tarsem Singh , as well as for another Saturn Award and the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award . Further nominations for a Saturn Award for best make-up followed in 2002 for Vanilla Sky (2001) by Cameron Crowe and in 2003 for the sci-fi thriller Minority Report (2002) by Steven Spielberg .

Web links

• Michèle Burke in the Internet Movie Database (English)