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Craig Reardon (born 10 April 1953; age 70) is a make-up and special effects make-up artist who worked on the first season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Reardon was part of the make-up department which earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series for the Deep Space Nine episode "Captive Pursuit" in 1993 and shared this award with Michael Westmore, Jill Rockow, Karen Westerfield, Gilbert A. Mosko, Dean Jones, Michael Key, and Vincent Niebla.

Born in Inglewood, California, Reardon is married to Nancy Nee since 1986 and the couple has two children. Reardon received four Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup in 1995 for the television movie Alien Nation: Dark Horizon, shared with Rick Stratton, Richard Snell, Janna Phillips, Zoltan Elek, and Edouard F. Henriques, in 1996 for the television movie Alien Nation: Body and Soul, shared with Rick Stratton, Richard Snell, David Abbott, Steve LaPorte, Janna Phillips, Kenny Myers, and Jill Rockow, in 1997 for Alien Nation: The Enemy Within, shared with Rick Stratton, Richard Snell, Janna Phillips, David Abbott, Edouard F. Henriques, Karen Westerfield, and Kenny Myers, and in 1999 for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode The Zeppo, shared with Todd McIntosh, Jamie Kelman, John Maldonado, Ed French, and Erwin H. Kupitz. Reardon and his team won two Emmy Awards for their work on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Surprise/ Innocence in 1998, shared with Todd McIntosh, John Maldonado, Gerald Quist, Margie Latinopoulos, Dayne Johnson, Michael F. Blake, and Mark Shostrom and for their work on The X-Files episodes "Two Fathers" and "One Son" in 1999, shared with Mark Shostrom, Rick Stratton, Steve LaPorte, Jake Garber, Kevin Haney, and Perri Sorel. In 1993, Reardon won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for his work on the television show Square One TV.

Prior to his work on Deep Space Nine, Reardon provided make-up and special effects make-up for Eaten Alive (1977), The Unseen (1980), Altered States (1980, with hair stylist Dione Taylor), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981, working with Greg Cannom and Ve Neill), the horror thriller The Funhouse (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), the thriller Strange Behavior (1981), Poltergeist (1982), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Dance of the Dwarfs (1983, with hair stylist Carolyn L. Elias), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Dreamscape (1984, with Greg Cannom and Brian Wade), The Goonies (1985, with Bari Burman, Thomas R. Burman, Ellis Burman, and Jean Austin), the comedy Weird Science (1985), The Gate (1987, with Michael Mills), the horror film Night Life (1989), The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990, with Jill Rockow and Jacklin Masteran), Daughter of Darkness (1990), Dick Tracy (1990, with Doug Drexler, Kevin Haney, Anthony Fredrickson, Ve Neill, Greg Cannom, Mark Shostrom, Rolf John Keppler, Gilbert A. Mosko, and Roland Blancaflor), Meet the Applegates (1990, with Janna Phillips and Jill Rockow), and Child's Play 3 (1991).

Beside his work on the Alien Nation television movies and the television series The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Diagnosis: Murder, Reardon served as make-up artist on Courage Under Fire (1996), the action film Volcano (1997), the crime drama Gang Related (1997), the thriller Switchback (1997), Godzilla (1998),The X-Files (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), Little Nicky (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Monkeybone (2001), Thirteen Ghosts (2001), Ghosts of Mars (2001), the war drama We Were Soldiers (2002), and the adventure Hidalgo (2004).

His most recent work was as assistant make-up artist on Without a Trace (2003-2006, starring Enrique Murciano).

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