Michael George Westmore I was born on March 22,1938 and is an American make-up artist best known for his work in various Star Trek productions, winning nine Emmy Awards, and is a member of the Westmore family.
23 Facts About Michael Westmore
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Michael Westmore won the Academy Award for Make-up in 1985 for his work on the film Mask.
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Michael Westmore's career began at Universal Studios in 1961, and spanned four decades, including working for the CIA creating make-up kits for spies overseas.
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Michael Westmore's family is heavily involved in the Hollywood make-up business.
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In 1917 his grandfather George Westmore had created the first studio make-up department.
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Michael Westmore is a 1961 graduate of the University of California-Santa Barbara and a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
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Michael Westmore began working for Universal Studios in 1961 as a make-up artist, and was promoted after three years to Assistant Department Head of Make-Up.
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Michael Westmore apprenticed to John Chambers on the 1963 film The List of Adrian Messenger.
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Michael Westmore became a freelance make-up artist during the 1970s and 80s, working on films such as Rocky and Raging Bull.
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For Raging Bull, Michael Westmore designed the prosthetic noses which Robert De Niro wore throughout the film, and the make up which simulated bleeding through tubes placed under fake skin.
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Michael Westmore worked with Tom Burman on make-up sets for the Central Intelligence Agency for operatives overseas to change identities.
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Michael Westmore was hired in 1986 to work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and would go on to work on Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise.
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Michael Westmore was initially apprehensive about working on a television show as his previous experience had been only with feature films, but after discussing it with his wife he thought that the idea of a year-long project was positive.
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Michael Westmore left the Star Trek franchise in 2005, following the cancellation of Enterprise.
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Michael Westmore was responsible for Kamal Haasan's make up in the Shankar directed Indian Tamil film called 'Indian'.
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Michael Westmore did an elderly women makeup for Kamal Hassan in a Tamil film Avvai Shanmugi.
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Michael Westmore spent eighteen months on the Indian film Dasavathaaram, where actor Kamal Haasan played ten different roles which each required prosthetics.
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Michael Westmore has begun work as a producer and aims to write a two-volume autobiography.
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Michael Westmore made a guest appearance on the third series finale of reality TV make-up show Face Off, alongside his daughter McKenzie Westmore who is the presenter of the show.
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Michael Westmore won an Academy Award for Makeup for the 1985 Cher film Mask, and has been nominated three other times, for 2010: The Year We Make Contact, The Clan of the Cave Bear and Star Trek: First Contact.
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Michael Westmore has won nine Emmy Awards, and was nominated for at least one Emmy every year from 1984 to 2005.
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Michael Westmore has suggested that he may be indirectly responsible for the addition of a make-up award at the Oscars as he was put forward for a special Oscar in 1980 for his work on Raging Bull, and after it was turned down there was such a reaction that a proper award was instituted during the following year.
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Michael Westmore won a Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Makeup for the 2008 Tamil-language film Dasavathaaram.