Michèle Burke

Michèle Burke ( born 1959 in Kildare, Ireland) is an American make-up artist of Irish descent who has won several awards in film productions for the makeup.

Biography

Michèle Burke began her work as a makeup artist in 1980 with the movie monster in the night express from Roger Spottiswoode and was subsequently involved in the creation of over forty films.

For the make-up in Quest for Fire (1981 ) by Jean -Jacques Annaud was received 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 ) for the best mask.

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

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

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

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