Brian Sipe

Brian Sipe is an Emmy Award-winning makeup and makeup effects artist who worked as an effects technician with Steve Johnson's XFX Group on . He also worked with Harlow FX on , applying prosthetic make-ups designed by Joel Harlow and Neville Page. Sipe also worked on .
Sipe has been working as a professional make-up artist in film and television since 1989. He is the owner of Gamut Studios, a company which provides services in make-up effects, character design, custom fabrication, and project management. In 2006 he won an Emmy Award as makeup department head on .
In addition to Star Trek Nemesis, Sipe's film work with XFX also includes Suburban Commando (1991, starring Christopher Lloyd), Necronomicon (1993, starring Jeffrey Combs), Lord of Illusions (1995, starring Scott Bakula), and (1996, starring Vanessa Williams). Sipe's other early make-up projects include work on such films as (1993), (1994), (1995) and In the Mouth of Madness (1995) and .
Sipes has more recently had a long association with Keith VanderLaan's Captive Audience Productions, working as special make-up supervisor on the majority of their film and television projects since 1999. His film work with Captive Audience include (1999), (2000), (2001, featuring LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Brad Greenquist, Albert Hall, Bruce McGill, and Wade Andrew Williams), (2001, featuring Christopher Plummer), (2003, featuring Lee Arenberg), (2003), The Passion of the Christ (2004), (2004), (2004), (2005), and (2006).
Outside of his work with Captive Audience, Sipe was the special make-up supervisor on (2005), which starred Alexander Siddig, Christopher Plummer, David Clennon, and Robert Foxworth. Other film projects include (2006) and (2007). He also supervised special effects make-up on Paramount Pictures' (2008), (2009), and (2009).
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