Please watch the new series Lipstick Jungle on NBC which aired on February 7th.  I shot the pilot for this series in the spring of 2007. I had a great time and they were all such a wonderful cast.           Check out the trailer.

Photo: Lipstick Jungle Cast (from left to right.)  Lindsey Price, Brooke Shields, and Kim Ravers
More photos on the IMDB

I was recently on the film Ghost Town with Tea Leoni, Greg Kinnear and Rick Gervais from the hit series Extras.  You can see the rest of my credits on my resume page.

Here's a photo of the DJ and the Club Girls
from a film I was on called Righteous Kill starring Robert Deniro, Al Pacino and Rap Artist Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson.

Last summer I was working on the Dreamworks film  Revolutionary Road which reunited Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet.  

One of the best times I ever had doing a film was on  Stay Alive down in New Orleans right before Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.

Photo: Applying  facial prosthetic on actress Maria Kalinina who played Countess Elizabeth Bathory on the film 
STAY ALIVE.

Photos:
The film Stay Alive.
Left: Frankie Muniz
Middle: Myself (acting scared) and Maria Kalinina
Right: the beautiful Samaire Armstrong

Maria Kalinina as the countess Elizabeth Bathory

I'm a member of  IATSE's Local 798 Hair and Make-up for film and television since 1991. 
I joined the union when I did my first motion picture called A League of Their Own.

Photos:  the film  A League of  Their  Own

I was assigned to do this group of girls throughout the film. 
It was my first big break in the business .

Photo: The Rockford Peaches.
In the center is Geena Davis and above her in the window of the bus are Rosie O'Donnell and Madonna. Also Tom Hanks, who played the manager, is at the front of the line-up.

I had the oppurtunity to  do Bette  Midler's  make-up  for the cupcake  scene in the Stepford Wives. 
I was running the background on the heavy days and had 10-12 make-up artists under me.

Photo: The film
The Stepford Wives.
A couple of poses with two of  Stepford's women. 

Photo: the film It Could Happen to You

 
Left:Screen test shots of Rosie Perez showing her different looks.

Right:  Director says, "No to the top look and yes to the bottom." 

Law & Order S.V.U.'s Mariska Hargitay backstage on her birthday.

On Law & Order S.V.U. I had to do both beauty make-up and special effects. 

Law & Order S.V.U. continuity photo

Random special effects scars from continuity photos at Law & Order S.V.U.




Left-side photos: top wound is freshly healing and the bottom is an older surgery scar
Right-side photos are pre-blood.  First the slash is made and then theatrical liquid blood will be added before the cameras start rolling

Another shotgun blast to the face.
Left is the pre-blood.  Right side is the full blood shot

I'm second generation in the motion picture industry.  Both of my parents are hairdressers in the business.

Christopher Meloni on an independent film with a wig that was supplied for him by my father's salon.
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Harvey Keitel in the Prince of Central Park.   He was playing a character who lived in the park.  I applied the beard and eyebrows to give Harvey a troll look

Head split open.  I pushed the hair away and filled the center with cherrios to make it look like brain matter.  That's called thinking on your feet. Special thanks to craft service

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