Ve Neill

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Ve Neill
Birth name:	Mary Flores
Date of birth:	13 May 1951
Place of birth:	Riverside, California, USA
Awards for Trek:	Saturn Award nomination
Roles:	Makeup Artist Background actress
Character(s):	Enterprise crewmember

Ve Neill (born 13 May 1951; age 72) is a three-time Academy Award-winning makeup artist who worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. She was nominated for a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for her work on Star Trek, which she shared with Fred B. Phillips and Janna Phillips. She also appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in the recreation deck scene in the film.

The first project on which Neill served as makeup artist was Kingdom of the Spiders (1977, starring William Shatner). Two years later, she worked with Shatner again on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. During the 1980s, she worked on such films as Nine to Five, The Sword and the Sorcerer and The Lost Boys (for which she received her second Saturn Award nomination). From 1983 through 1986, she was a makeup artist on The A-Team, whose cast members included Star Trek: The Next Generation's Dwight Schultz.

Neill won the Academy Awards (or Oscars) for Best Makeup for two films for director Tim Burton, Beetlejuice (1988, shared with Steve LaPorte) and Ed Wood (1994, shared with Yolanda Toussieng). She also won 1993 Best Makeup Oscar for Mrs. Doubtfire (shared with Toussieng and Greg Cannom). In addition, she received Oscar nominations for her work on Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Batman Returns (1992), Hoffa (1992), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). She also received nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA) for all of these films (except Hoffa), as well as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Neill won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup on Pee-wee's Playhouse in 1988 and won a Primetime Emmy Award with the likes of Barry Koper, Jill Rockow, Joe Colwell, and Joel Harlow for the mini-series The Stand in 1997. Neill also received an Emmy nomination for her work on the 1998 mini-series From Earth to the Moon.

In addition, Neill won Saturn Awards for Beetlejuice, Batman Returns and Interview with the Vampire (1994) and received Saturn nominations for Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Galaxy Quest, and the first two Pirates of the Caribbean films. Neill's other film makeup credits include Dick Tracy (1991), Hook (1991), Mars Attacks! (1996), Gattaca (1997), Amistad (1997), Man on the Moon, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), The Chronicles of Riddick (alongside Glenn Hetrick, Daren Dochterman and Gregory Jein), Constantine (2005), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. With Glenn Hetrick, Neill was co-nominated for a 2016 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award, for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, having served on all four movies of the quadrilogy with Hetrick.

Neill reunited with director Tim Burton as actor Johnny Depp's personal makeup artist for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Currently she serves as a judge in the Syfy reality show, Face Off, along with Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page. The show, which features competing makeup artists, also has Michael Westmore as a mentor.

External links

• Ve Neill at Wikipedia
• Ve Neill at the Internet Movie Database
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