Cristina Patterson Ceret Cristina Patterson Ceret is a makeup artist , hair stylist and contact lens designer and painter who worked on several " Star Trek " series and films between and . Born in Madrid , Spain , Patterson Ceret moved with her family to California in 1969 and attended the Topanga Elementary School in Topanga , California . Her mother , Raffaelle Butler , worked as a makeup artist for Paramount Pictures on film projects such as " To Kill a Mockingbird " ( 1962 ) and " Doctor Zhivago " ( 1965 ) as well as several sitcoms and took Patterson Ceret with her to the film sets . At an early age , she started to work in front of the camera as background actress . Some of her later acting work includes featured parts in the television series " Casualty " ( 1986 ) , the television comedy " Under Wraps " ( 1997 , with Clara Bryant , Ed Lauter , and Tom Virtue ) , and the horror comedy " Decampitated " ( 1998 ) . Patterson Ceret followed in her mother ' s footsteps and started to work in the makeup department including the horror comedy " Transylvania Twist " ( 1989 , with Jay Robinson and Clement von Franckenstein and makeup by Dean Gates and Dean Jones ) , the action film " Hart to Die " ( 1990 ) , the action film " Brain Smasher . . . A Love Story " ( 1993 , with Teri Hatcher , Deborah Van Valkenburgh , Charles Rocket , and Nicholas Guest ) , the action film " Kickboxer 4 : The Aggressor " ( 1994 , working with Brian Sipe and Scott Wheeler ) , the action thriller " Hong Kong 97 " ( 1994 ) , the action film " Spitfire " ( 1995 ) , and the science fiction film " Heatseeker " ( 1995 ) . In 1995 , Patterson Ceret joined the company Professional VisionCare Associates , a company specialized in designing and applying contact lenses for film and television productions . She started as a contact lens technician until she was promoted to special effects coordinator in 2002 . Besides her work on several " Star Trek " projects , she designed and supervised contact lenses for television productions such as " Dark Skies " ( 1996 ) , " Charmed " ( 1999 - 2005 ) , " Special Unit 2 " ( 2000 and 2002 ) , " The District " ( 2002 ) , " JAG " ( 2002 ) , " The Jamie Kennedy Experiment " ( 2002 ) , " Carnivàle " ( 2002 and 2004 ) , " The Division " ( 2003 ) , " Deadwood " ( 2003 - 2004 ) , " Days of Our Lives " ( 2003 ) , " CSI : Miami " ( 2003 and 2005 ) , " Cold Case " ( 2003 - 2005 , 2007 - 2009 ) , J . J . Abrams ' " Alias " ( 2003 - 2005 ) , " Without a Trace " ( 2004 ) , " Six Feet Under " ( 2004 - 2005 ) , " Nip / Tuck " ( 2004 - 2005 ) , " House , M . D . " ( 2004 , 2006 - 2007 ) , " General Hospital " ( 2004 ) , " Grey ' s Anatomy " ( 2004 ) , " Boston Legal " ( 2004 ) , " Supernatural " ( 2005 ) , " CSI : Crime Scene Investigation " ( 2005 , 2007 - 2008 ) , " Passions " ( 2006 ) , " Medium " ( 2006 ) , " Moonlight " ( 2007 ) , " Dexter " ( 2007 - 2008 ) , " Legend of the Seeker " ( 2008 - 2009 ) , " My Name is Earl " ( 2008 ) , " Lost " ( 2008 - 2009 ) , " Fringe " ( 2008 ) , " CSI : NY " ( 2008 ) , " 24 " ( 2008 ) , " FlashForward " ( 2009 - 2010 ) , " Castle " ( 2009 ) , " Bones " ( 2009 ) , " The Walking Dead " ( 2010 - 2013 ) , " Spartacus : Blood & Sand " ( 2010 ) , " Glee " ( 2010 ) , " Teen Wolf " ( 2011 ) , " Grimm " ( 2011 ) , " American Horror Story " ( 2011 - 2013 ) , " Beauty and the Beast " ( 2012 - 2013 ) , " Game of Thrones " ( 2012 ) , " Sleepy Hollow " ( 2013 ) , " Longmire " ( 2013 ) , " Hannibal " ( 2013 ) , " True Detective " ( 2014 ) , and " Da Vinci ' s Demons " ( 2013 - 2014 ) . Among her over one hundred feature film credits are the horror thriller " Little Witches " ( 1996 ) , the comic adaptations " Spawn " ( 1997 ) and " Blade " ( 1997 ) , the horror film " Wishmaster " ( 1997 ) , the science fiction remake " Planet of the Apes " ( 2001 ) , the drama " A Beautiful Mind " ( 2001 ) , the comic adaptation " Blade II " ( 2002 ) , the fantasy film " Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl " ( 2003 ) , the fantasy film " Underworld " ( 2003 ) , the remake " King Kong " ( 2005 ) , Bryan Singer ' s " Superman Returns " ( 2006 ) , the sequels " Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Man ' s Chest " ( 2006 ) and " Pirates of the Caribbean : At World ' s End " ( 2007 ) , the fantasy film " Twilight " ( 2008 ) , the horror thriller " Drag Me to Hell " ( 2009 ) , the science fiction thriller " District 9 " ( 2009 ) , the science fiction thriller " Surrogates " ( 2009 ) , the fantasy adventure " Alice in Wonderland " ( 2010 ) , the remake " A Nightmare on Elm Street " ( 2010 ) , the science fiction sequel " TRON : Legacy " ( 2011 ) , the science fiction film " I Am Number Four " ( 2011 ) , the comic adaptations " Thor " ( 2011 ) , " X - Men : First Class " ( 2011 ) , and " Green Lantern " ( 2011 ) , the drama " J . Edgar " ( 2011 ) , the reboot " The Amazing Spider - Man " ( 2012 ) , the fantasy adventure " The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey " ( 2012 ) and its sequel " The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug " ( 2013 ) , the remake " The Lone Ranger " ( 2013 ) , and the science fiction film " Pacific Rim " ( 2013 ) . More recent film credits include the war drama " 300 : Rise of an Empire " ( 2014 ) , the sequel " The Amazing Spider - Man 2 " ( 2014 ) , the drama " Child 44 " ( 2014 ) , the fantasy sequel " The Hobbit : There and Back Again " ( 2014 ) , and the science fiction remake " Mad Max : Fury Road " ( 2015 , starring Tom Hardy ) .