Gerald Quist

Gerald "J(G)erry" Alan Quist is a make-up artist who has worked under the auspices of make-up department head Michael Westmore on the first through sixth seasons of and . Together with Westmore he created the headpiece for Armus in and on Star Trek VI, he worked as prosthetic makeup artist for Mark Lenard's Sarek.
During his tenure on The Next Generation, Quist work as make-up artist earned him eight Emmy Award nominations, winning two of them.
==Career outside Star Trek==
Starting out in the motion picture industry in the mid-1980s, Quist worked as special effects make-up artist and make-up lab foreman on (1985, with Jill Rockow), (1985, starring Jeffrey Combs), (1986) and (1988), (1987, with Michael Westmore, June Westmore, Todd McIntosh, and Michael Burnett), and (1989, with Michael Westmore, Ken Diaz, and Zoltan Elek).
In addition to the ones he received for his work on Star Trek, Quist earned Emmy Award nominations for his work on the Highway to Heaven episode I Was a Middle-Aged Werewolf (1988, shared with Hank Edds and Michael Westmore), (1989, shared with Michael Westmore), for the American Playhouse episode Tru (1993), and for (1995, shared with Todd McIntosh). He won an Emmy Award for the episode The Leap Home: November 25, 1969 in 1991, shared with Michael Mills and for the episode Surprise/ Innocence in 1999, shared with Todd McIntosh, John Maldonado, Craig Reardon, Margie Latinopoulos, Dayne Johnson, Michael F. Blake, and Mark Shostrom.
Further credits in the make-up department include (1990), the television thriller Donor (1990), (1993), (1994), (1995), (1996), (1996), (1999), the television drama True West (2002), (2005), (2005), (2006), and (2007).
Quist worked on several projects as personal make-up artist for actor , including (1996), (1997), (1998), (1998), (1999), (1999), (2000), (2000), (2000), (2001), (2002), (2003), (2004), (2005), (2006), (2006), (2008), (2010), (2011), and (2013). For (2013), he served as makeup department head. 
He worked as make-up department head on (2008, earning him a 2009 OFTA Film Award nomination), the television comedy The Station (2009), and (2009), as make-up artist for actress on (2010), (2012), and as make-up artist for actor Sean Penn in Gangster Squad (2013).
He later found tenure as key makeup artist on and the HBO show Westworld.
== Star Trek credits ==
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** – Makeup artist (uncredited) (Season 1)
** – Sculptor (uncredited)
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** Season 2 (22 episodes)
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** Season 4 (26 episodes)
** Season 5 (26 episodes)
** Season 6 (26 episodes)
* – Makeup Artist for Mark Lenard
== Emmy Awards ==
Jerry Quist received the following Emmy Award wins and nominations as "Makeup Artist", all in the category Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series:
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, Werner Keppler, and Rolf John Keppler
* Emmy Award for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore and Werner Keppler
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore and Janna Phillips
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, June Westmore, Hank Edds, Doug Drexler, John Caglione, Jr., and Ron Walters
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, June Abston Haymore, Ed French, Jill Rockow, and Gilbert A. Mosko
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, June Abston Haymore, and Michael Mills
* Emmy Award for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, Ron Walters, Jane Haymore, James R. Scribner, Ken Diaz, Karen Westerfield, Richard Snell, and Tania McComas
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, June Abston Haymore, Karen Westerfield, Jill Rockow, and Doug Drexler
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