Joy Zapata

Joy Zapata is an Emmy Award-winning hairstylist who worked on , first as a key hairstylist during the first season and later as hair designer for the fifth through seventh seasons. She was also a key hair stylist on and . 
Zapata's hairstyling helped The Next Generation win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series for the episode which she shared with Candace Neal, Patricia Miller, Laura Connolly, Richard Sabre, Julia L. Walker, and Josée Normand. Her work also helped earn the show two additional Emmy nominations in the same category for the episodes , shared with Patricia Miller, and , shared with Patricia Miller, Laura Connolly, Carolyn L. Elias, Don Sheldon, and Susan Zietlow-Maust.
Zapata began her career in hairstyling on Battlestar Galactica. Her early film work includes When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979) and Under the Rainbow, working with Star Trek make-up artist Fred Phillips. 
Since then, she has headed the make-up department for (1987, starring Robert Picardo and featuring Wendy Schaal, William Schallert, Henry Gibson, Mark L. Taylor, Dick Miller, Kenneth Tobey, Andrea Martin, and Richard McGonagle), (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989, featuring Reg E. Cathey, Bob Gunton, Ed Lauter, and Mark Moses), (1996, featuring Brent Spiner, Bill Smitrovich, Frank Novak, Leland Orser, Raphael Sbarge, Tim Kelleher, Randy Oglesby, Erick Avari, and Tracey Walter and working with Norma Lee and Candace Neal), (1998, starring Wesley Snipes), (1999, featuring James Cromwell), and Galaxy Quest (1999). She was also a key hairstylist on films such as (1988, starring Malcolm McDowell), L.A. Story (1991, featuring Iman and Patrick Stewart), (1995, featuring David Andrews, Clint Howard, Max Grodénchik, Brett Cullen, Andy Milder, and Brian Markinson). 
In addition, Zapata was the head of the hair department on . She later became a key hairstylist for Mad About You, winning a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award for her work on that show's final episode ("The Final Frontier"). She won a second award from the guild for her work on (2001). She also earned her fourth Emmy Award nomination for (2002 featuring Cliff DeYoung, Albert Hall, Bruce McGill, and Randy Oglesby). Other credits include Jonathan Frakes' (2002), (2004), and (2005). She was a key hairstylist on (2007), written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Since 1996, Zapata has been Academy Award-winning actor 's personal hairstylist. She has worked with Nicholson on such films as (1996), (1997), About Schmidt (2002), (2003), and The Departed (2006).
Zapata later worked as key hair stylist on (2011-12, with Gloria Ponce), as hair department head on (2011, with hair stylist Norma Lee) and (2012, with Dwayne Johnson and Branscombe Richmond), and as hair stylist on (2011) and (2013).
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