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Janice R. Alexander (born 11 April 1958; age 65) is a former makeup artist and hair stylist who worked as special effects makeup artist on Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and as hair stylist on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. On The Final Frontier, she was credited as Jan Alexander.

Alexander received two Emmy Award nominations in 1987 in the category Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series for the Max Headroom episode "Body Banks" and in the category Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special for her work on the television mini series Fresno. The latter one was shared with Carol A. O'Connell. In 1990 she received another nomination in the category Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special for her work on the television movie Midnight Train to Moscow and won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special for her work on the television drama Fall from Grace on which she worked with Trek actors J. Michael Flynn, John McLiam, and Richard Herd. In 2004 she won a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award in the category Best Period Hair Styling – Feature for the drama The Last Samurai and shared this award with fellow Trek hair stylists Terry Baliel and Karen Asano-Myers.

Alexander started to work as hair stylist in the film and television industry in the 1980s with credits including T. J. Hooker (1984, starring William Shatner, James Darren, and Richard Herd and working with makeup artist James Lee McCoy) and Max Headroom (1987, starring Matt Frewer and George Coe and working with makeup artists Katalin and Zoltan Elek). Film work include SpaceCamp (1986), The Spirit (1987, starring Nana Visitor), The Monster Squad (1987), the television drama A Father's Homecoming (1988, working with Rick Stratton), Alien Nation (1988, with David LeRoy Anderson and Monty Westmore), and the drama Dad (1989, with Ken Diaz and Greg Nelson).

In the 1990s she worked on The Marrying Man (1991), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Timecop (1994), Street Fighter (1994), The American President (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), Contact (1997) and Starship Troopers (1997, starring Dina Meyer), Letters from a Killer (1998, directed by David Carson), and Idle Hands (1999).

Beside working as hair stylist for Renée Zellweger on Me, Myself & Irene (2000) and for Heather Graham on Say It Isn't So (2001), Alexander was the hair department head on Hanging Up (2000), Spider-Man (2002), Men in Black II (2002), The Prestige (2006), Mr. Brooks (2007), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), The Dark Knight (2008), Drag Me to Hell (2009), and Inception (2010). Other credits as hair stylist include What Lies Beneath (2000), Space Cowboys (2000), The Princess Diaries (2001), Hulk (2003, starring Eric Bana), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), and Gran Torino (2008).

The final three films she worked on prior to her retirement and as a hair department head were Thor (2011, starring Chris Hemsworth), Big Miracle (2012), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012, starring Tom Hardy).

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