Joel Harlow

Joel Harlow is an Emmy Award-winning special effects and prosthetic makeup artist and sculptor. Harlow and his team at Harlow FX designed and constructed two prosthetic figures of Porthos for use in the second season episode : one to be suspended in the super-hydration chamber and one to be resting within the quarantine box. 
Harlow was the prosthetic makeup supervisor on , for which he designed Vulcan, Romulan, and Klingon prosthetics and was also responsible for Leonard Nimoy's make-up. Harlow has received an Academy Award for his work on Star Trek, which he shares with Makeup Department Head Mindy Hall and Prosthetic Makeup Designer Barney Burman. The three also received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Make-Up for Star Trek and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nomination.
Harlow worked as the Makeup Department Head and Prosthetic Designer on the sequel , helmed by Justin Lin. He was nominated, with Richard Alonzo, for an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling on this film in . He also appears with his wife Cindy Harlow as a Vulcan couple at Yorktown. 
== Life and career ==
Harlow was born in Grand Folks, North Dakota. He attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York, during which time he began working on low-budget productions, including two of the cult Toxic Avenger films. 
==== Film ====
In the early 1990s, Harlow began doing makeup effects work higher-profile films, including The Sandlot, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, and Lord of Illusions, the latter of which starred Scott Bakula, Famke Janssen, Joel Swetow, and Vincent Schiavelli. Harlow subsequently worked on such genre films as Anaconda, Virus, and the infamously panned Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000. Veteran Star Trek makeup effects artist Jake Garber – with whom Harlow previously worked on 1992's The Bodyguard and the 1995 films Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and Automatic – supervised the prosthetics on Battlefield Earth.
A member of Local 706, Harlow worked under the supervision of on (featuring Clint Howard) and (2001, starring Erick Avari, Cary-Hiroyuki and David Warner). These films marked the first two times Harlow worked with Star Treks Prosthetic Makeup Designer, Barney Burman. Harlow then worked under makeup artist Ve Neill on (2001). He also provided uncredited makeup effects for films like (1999), (1999), and Bryan Singer's (2000, starring Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Romijn and Famke Janssen). 
Harlow's first project as makeup department head was (2000, featured Jim Beaver and Gregory Itzin in the cast. He then became a key makeup artist on (2003) (2006) and (2007) with Ve Neill (and all starring Lee Arenberg) and was the prosthetic makeup designer for the last two films of the trilogy. He was recognized by the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild for his work on the first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl, while his makeup effects for Dead Man's Chest received a Saturn Award nomination from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. He was also the makeup department head on and (both 2011).
Harlow's other film makeup credits include and (both 2003, featuring Anthony Zerbe), Auto Focus, (2004, starring Karl Urban), (2005), (2005, featuring cinematography by Dan Mindel), (2005), (2007, featuring Bruce Greenwood), and (2009). He also did prosthetics work on (2007, starring Rachel Nichols) and prosthetic sculpting for (2009, featuring Stephen Root).
Harlow has been working as the makeup artist for acclaimed actor , transforming Depp into the character of The Madhatter in Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland. Harlow was also Depp's makeup artist on (2011, co-starring Karen Austin, Aaron Lustig, and Bill Smitrovich), (2011), (2011), (2012), (2013) for which he received his second Academy Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling in 2014, shared with Gloria Pasqua Casny, (2014), and (2014).
More recent work includes makeup design for Johnny Depp on (2014, with Chris Pine), (2015), and (2016), makeup design on (2015, with Adam Scott), and as makeup department head on (2015).
==== Television ====
Harlow won two Emmy Awards for his work on two different television mini-series based on novels, 1994's The Stand and 1997's The Shining. He shared the first award with makeup artist Camille Calvet, while the second Emmy was shared with Star Trek alumni Joe Colwell, Barry Koper, Ve Neill, and Jill Rockow. Harlow later worked with Ve Neill on numerous film productions.
In 2000, Harlow began working on . He created Harlow FX to handle effects work on Buffy in 2001, although the company was later assigned to other projects such as War of the Worlds and . In 2002, Harlow received an Emmy nomination for his work on the Buffy episode "Hell's Bells." Three years later, he received another Emmy nomination for an episode of Carnivàle. Harlow has also worked on such television programs as (starring Jennifer Morrison) and .
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