Thomas E. Surprenant

Thomas "Thom" E. Surprenant is a special makeup effects and makeup artist who worked on several episodes of , and and on the feature films and . In , Surprenant was interviewed for the television special Entertainment Tonight Salutes Star Trek.
His work on Deep Space Nine earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series in for the episode which he shared with Michael Westmore, Camille Calvet, Dean Jones, Dean Gates, Karen Iverson, Scott Wheeler, Michael Key, David Quashnick, Karen Westerfield, and Gilbert A. Mosko. He received another Emmy Award nomination in the same category in for his work on the episode which he shared with Michael Westmore, Camille Calvet, Karen Iverson, Dean Jones, Mark Bussan, Gilbert A. Mosko, Scott Wheeler, Ellis Burman, David Quashnick, R. Stephen Weber, Brad Look, and Kevin Haney.
Hailing from Burbank, California, Surprenant has been working in the entertainment industry for more than twenty years. He also worked as head makeup instructor at the Last Looks Makeup Academy and as instructor at the M.G. Westmore Academy of Cosmetic Arts. His work was featured on covers of magazines such as "Fangoria" and "Rue Morgue" and featured in "Men's Health" and "Inside Motorcross". Throughout his career he worked with actors such as and David Duchovny (both 1993 on Kalifornia), Hilary Swank, Grace Jones, James Duval (2001 in Donnie Darko), Ellen DeGeneres, Concetta Tomei (1999-2002 on Providence), and F. Murray Abraham and founded the company Thomas Surprenant Creations which is providing film, television and print projects with makeup products. These products were used on (2002, starring The Rock), (2003, starring Kristanna Loken), and the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003, starring John Rhys-Davies) among other projects.
Surprenant worked in the makeup department of television series such as , , Space Rangers (1993, starring Cary-Hiroyuki, Marjorie Monaghan, and Clint Howard), , Strong Medicine, , and . His film credits include (1988), (1989), (1991), (1992, with Dean Gates), (1992) and (1995), (1993), (1995), (1996), (1998, with James MacKinnon and Tania McComas), as makeup supervisor on (2000), (2000), (2000), (2001), (2003), and (2006, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer, with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Chelah Horsdal and Julian Christopher, John Pyper-Ferguson,).
Other projects include the short films Cub (2009), Rationed (2009), Love & Vengeance (2010), The Sierra (2010), and License to Reproduce (2011).
== Star Trek work ==
File:Yannick Derrien, Blood Oath.jpg|Yannick Derrien
File:Boraalan 5.jpg|Toni Taylor
File:Barkonian 6.jpg|Alien makeup
File:Female alien, The Maquis Part I.jpg|Alien makeup
File:Leanza Cornett.jpg|Leanza Cornett
File:Romulan corpse, 2371.jpg|Romulan makeup
File:Duras sisters' bridge officer 1, 2371.jpg|Scott Barry
File:Tygarian hologram.jpg|Tom Morga
File:Bashir ages.jpg|Alexander Siddig
File:Bolian female.jpg|Mary Meinel-NewportSeason 4
File:Malko.jpg|Scott Strozier
File:Julian Bashir, 2422.jpg|Alexander Siddig
File:Regana Tosh.jpg|Roderick Garr
File:Toral, 2372.jpg|Rick Pasqualone
File:Tracee Cocco, Resistance.jpg|Tracee Lee Cocco
File:Klingon Borg First Contact.jpg|Wayne King, Jr.
File:Borg drone SkyBox trading card B11.jpg|Borg makeup
File:Xanthan Bazaar slave girl 3.jpg|Roxanne Doman
File:Seleya crewmember 12.jpg|Michael Wickson
=== Further Trek work ===
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Category:Makeup staff
Category:Emmy Award winners
Category:Emmy Award nominees