Mike Smithson

From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference

Mike Smithson is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated makeup artist who worked in the makeup department of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, although he did not receive on-screen credit for his work on these shows. He also appeared as a Klingon helmsman in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, but received no screen credit for this, either. In 2009 he worked on J.J. Abrams' Star Trek as a make-up artist and provided the Romulan make-up for Lucia Rijker. [1]

In 1994, Smithson shared two Emmy nominations with makeup supervisor and designer Michael Westmore and the other makeup artists for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series for TNG: "Genesis" and DS9: "Rules of Acquisition". Ten years later, Smithson won his third Emmy nomination for makeup work on an episode of Gilmore Girls. Smithson also shared an Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Makeup for the 1999 comedy Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, on which he was one of the makeup designers.

Smithson's other makeup credits include the films Tank Girl (1995, starring Lori Petty and Malcolm McDowell), Alien: Resurrection (1997, starring Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, and Leland Orser; Smithson was also a sculptor on this film), Battlefield Earth (2000, on which he was John Travolta's makeup artist), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001, featuring Erick Avari, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and David Warner), Men in Black II (2002), The Cat in the Hat (2003), Big Fish (2003), Spider-Man 2 (2004), and Norbit (2007), and the TV shows ER, The Andy Dick Show, and Six Feet Under. He also did effects work for films such as Predator (1987), Ghostbusters II (1989), Ghost (1990), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), and Spy Kids (2001).

[edit] External links

• MakeupMedia.net - official site
• Mike Smithson at the Internet Movie Database
• Resume at All Crew Agency