Janice R . Alexander Janice R . Alexander is a makeup artist and hair stylist who worked as special effects makeup artist on and as hair stylist on . 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 the television series " 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 includes the science fiction adventure " SpaceCamp " ( 1986 ) , the comic adaptation " The Spirit " ( 1987 , starring Nana Visitor ) , the fantasy film " The Monster Squad " ( 1987 ) , the television drama " A Father ' s Homecoming " ( 1988 , working with Rick Stratton ) , the science fiction film " 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 romance " The Marrying Man " ( 1991 ) , the action drama " Double Impact " ( 1991 ) , the science fiction films " Universal Soldier " ( 1992 ) and " Timecop " ( 1994 ) , the video game adaptation " Street Fighter " ( 1994 ) , the comedy " The American President " ( 1995 ) , the music drama " That Thing You Do ! " ( 1996 ) , the science fiction films " Contact " ( 1997 ) and " Starship Troopers " ( 1997 , starring Dina Meyer ) , the crime drama " Letters from a Killer " ( 1998 , directed by David Carson ) , and the horror comedy " Idle Hands " ( 1999 ) . Beside working as hair stylist for on the comedy " Me , Myself & Irene " ( 2000 ) and for on the comedy " Say It Isn ' t So " ( 2001 ) , Alexander was the hair department head on the comedy " Hanging Up ! " ( 2000 ) , the comic adaptation " Spider - Man " ( 2002 ) , the science fiction sequel " Men in Black II " ( 2002 ) , the mystery thriller " The Prestige " ( 2006 ) , the crime drama " Mr . Brooks " ( 2007 ) , the drama " Charlie Wilson ' s War " ( 2007 ) , the comic adaptation " The Dark Knight " ( 2008 ) , the horror thriller " Drag Me to Hell " ( 2009 ) , and the mystery thriller " Inception " ( 2010 ) . Other credits as hair stylist include the mystery thriller " What Lies Beneath " ( 2000 ) , the action adventure " Space Cowboys " ( 2000 ) , the comedy " The Princess Diaries " ( 2001 ) , the comic adaptation " Hulk " ( 2003 , starring Eric Bana ) , and ' s films " Million Dollar Baby " ( 2004 ) , " Flags of Our Fathers " ( 2006 ) , and " Gran Torino " ( 2008 ) . More recently , Alexander worked as hair department head on the comic adaptation " Thor " ( 2011 , starring Chris Hemsworth ) , the drama " Big Miracle " ( 2012 ) , and the sequel " The Dark Knight Rises " ( 2012 , starring Tom Hardy ) .