Mark Garbarino

Mark Garbarino is an Emmy Award-nominated makeup and prosthetic artist who applied alien makeup and prosthetics on , and . He also worked on and . He has not been credited for any Star Trek project released thus far.
Hailing from Wayne, Pennsylvania, Garbarino graduated from the University of South Florida with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts. In 1983, he moved to New York where he took jobs as a performance artist, sculptor and costumer. In 1987, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began his career in special effects makeup. 
One of his early film jobs was applying alien makeup effects for (1988, featuring Earl Boen, Roger Aaron Brown, Jeff Kober, Tom Morga, Brian Thompson and Keone Young. He was also an effects technician on (1988) and (1989), and (starring Peter Weller and Meg Foster) and (both 1989).
Garbarino's subsequent work included designing puppets for (1990, starring John Glover and Robert Picardo), (1993), and (1993). He was also part of the miniature set crew for (1990, featuring Marc Alaimo, Roy Brocksmith, Ronny Cox, Mel Johnson, Jr., Frank Kopyc, and the voice of Robert Picardo). 
He later became the makeup effects supervisor on Babylon 5, starring Andreas Katsulas and Bill Mumy. He served the same occupation on four of the Babylon 5 TV movies, including , which earned Garbarino and his team an Emmy Award nomination. During this time, he continued to work on the effects team for such films as (1997, starring Clancy Brown and Dina Meyer) and Virus (directed by John Bruno).
Since 1999, Garbarino has done makeup effects for such films as (2000), (2000), (2001), (2001), , Barbershop 2, Collateral, Constantine, (2004), Serenity, Rent, Fun With Dick & Jane, Snakes on a Plane, Dreamgirls, 300 and Ocean's Thirteen. He has also worked on several Chinese/Hong Kong features, including Jet Li's Fearless.
In 2002, he was nominated for a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award for his prosthetic work used to transform actor into in (2001, featuring Brad Greenquist, Albert Hall, Bruce McGill and Wade Andrew Williams, along with stars LeVar Burton and Michael Dorn).
In addition to Star Trek and Babylon 5, other television shows on which Garbarino has worked include , , , , and . He also worked on the 2002 TV movie Gleason, which starred Terry Farrell and Saul Rubinek. In 2003, he received his second Emmy nomination for an episode of .
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