Richard Redlefsen

Richard Redlefsen is a makeup artist of Hollywood film and television programs who was an on-set Special Makeup Effects Artist on where he worked on the makeup of the Vulcan actors Jill Lover and Ronald F. Hoiseck. In , he was an uncredited prosthetic makeup artist on the first two episodes of . In , he worked as key prosthetic makeup artist on the first season of .
==Career==
Redlefsen attended the Elegance Makeup School in Los Angeles, California, from which he graduated in 1997. After doing makeup work for revenues such as San Jose Opera and San Jose Repertory Theater, Redlefsen moved to Budapest, Hungary, in 1998, where he spent two years working as a makeup artist of makeup effects artist on various Hungarian films, commercials and music videos.
A few months after returning to the United States in 2000, Redlefsen returned to Los Angeles and began working in Hollywood. Since then, his talents have been utilized on such films as Jeepers Creepers, (2003), Underworld, Saw, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, , and . He has also worked on such television series as , , and Everybody Hates Chris. 
In addition to Star Trek, Redlefsen worked as a special effects makeup artist on two other major motion pictures for Paramount Pictures, (2008, featuring Alan Dale and Pavel Lychnikoff) and (2009, starring Rachel Nichols). His further film credits include The Incredible Hulk (2008) and (2009), 's beating makeup in The Killer Inside Me (2010), Grown Up (2010), Secretariat (2010), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012), (2013) and Grown Ups 2 (2013), (2013) and Paraiso (2013) in Mexico City.
Over the years, Redlefsen has worked with such Star Trek guest stars as Lee Arenberg (on Pirates of the Caribbean), James Avery (for the 2005 thriller Lethal Eviction), Diedrich Bader (on the 2004 horror movie Dead & Breakfast), Jonathan Banks (on the 2001 thriller Proximity), Tracy Middendorf (for the 2006 film El Cortez), Ron Perlman (for the 2002 action film Shakedown), Tony Todd (on the music video for "Gravedigger"), Gabrielle Union (on the 2002 heist film Welcome to Collinwood), and Ray Wise (on Jeepers Creepers II). 
==Star Trek awards==
Redleffen's work on Star Trek netted him the following award nominations,
===Emmy Awards===
Redleffen received the following Emmy Award nomination in the "Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie or Special" category,
* win for , shared with Vincent Van Dyke, James MacKinnon, Alexei Dmitriew, Neville Page and Michael Ornelaz
===Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards===
Redleffen received the following Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award nominations in the "Best Special Makeup Effects – Television Series, Limited Series or Miniseries, or New Media Series" category.
* nomination for PIC Season 1, shared with James MacKinnon, Alexei Dmitriew, and Vincent Van Dyke.
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