Mark Shostrom

Mark Shostrom is a make-up artist who worked as a staff sculptor and make-up artist on , , and . For Star Trek: Generations he served as a test model for Malcolm McDowell's scar make-up.
Shostrom was briefly interviewed for the documentary E! Inside Star Trek: Voyager.
In he earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series for his work on the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, Greg Nelson, Scott Wheeler, Tina Hoffman, Gil Mosko, Michael Key, Barry R. Koper, Natalie Wood, and Bill Myer. he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, Greg Nelson, Tina Hoffman, Scott Wheeler, Gilbert A. Mosko, Ellis Burman, R. Stephen Weber, and Brad Look.
Shostrom won two more Emmy Awards for Outstanding Makeup for a Series. In for the episodes "Innocence" and "Surprise", shared with Todd McIntosh, John Maldonado, Margie Latinopoulos , Dayne Johnson, Gerald Quist, Craig Reardon, and Michael F. Blake, and in for episodes "Two Fathers" and "One Son", shared with Rick Stratton, Jake Garber, Craig Reardon, Steve LaPorte, Kevin Haney, and Perri Sorel. In addition he received four Saturn Award nominations for Best Make-up: In for the , shared with Tony Doublin, in for and , the latter one shared with R. Christopher Biggs, and in for the horror film Phantasm II.
Shostrom grew up in Hong Kong and was introduced into the film business by make-up artist John Chambers. He worked on a number of films such as (1980), the short film Violet (1981), the drama An Outpost of Progress (1982), (1982, along with Allan A. Apone, Greg Cannom, Karen Kubeck, Kenny Myers, Ve Neill, and Ronald W. Smith), (1982, with R. Christopher Biggs and Bart Mixon), (1982), (1982), (1982), (1983), (1983), and the thriller Courage (1984, with Bart Mixon). He created ghost effects for "The Supernaturals" (1984, again with Bart Mixon), which starred LeVar Burton and Nichelle Nichols, and worked on (1984).
In 1985 he founded his company Mark Shostrom Studio and made his first big break with co-creating the special make-up effects for (1985). In addition he worked as second unit director for the transformation sequence of . Bart Mixon also worked on this film. Further credits as special effects makeup artist include (1986, along Bruce Barlow), Witchboard (1986), (1987), (1987, with Greg Cannom and Mike Elizalde), (1987), Prince of Darkness (1987), (1988, with Doug Drexler and Kevin Haney), (1988), and (1989).
Further credits as makeup artist / special effects makeup artist include (1990), the action film Shadowhunter (1993), with Robert Beltran, (1994), (1994, with Dean Gates), (1997), (1997), Rob Bowman's (1998), (1998), (1998-1999), , Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), City of Angels (2000, along with David Abbott, Jo Anne Chaney, and Brian A. Tunstall), and (2000-2001, with Donna Cicatelli-Lewis), (2000), (2001), (2001, with Lisa Meyers), (2002-2004, along with Belinda Bryant and Veronica Lorenz), (2004), (2005, starring Denise Crosby and along with Dean Jones and Starr Jones), (2005), and (2006, with Bob Smithson, Rufus Hearn, and Vincent J. Guastini).
More recently he worked as special effects makeup artist on the war drama The Warlords (2007), the drama Grappling with your Demons (2008), the horror film Primal Scream (2009), and the action thrillers Falling Down (2010) and The Mooring (2010).
== Star Trek credits ==
(This list is currently incomplete.)
* – makeup artist (uncredited)
** Shostrom sculpted the prosthetics for Data's head opening scene and neck prosthetics for Picard for re-shoots after the actor had grown his hair.
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Category:Makeup staff
Category:Emmy Award winners
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