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Letant makeup

Belinda Bryand working on Letant actor David Birney

Maras finger makeup

Belinda Bryant working on Maras actress Menina Fortunato

Belinda Bryant is a make-up artist who worked on several Star Trek television series and Star Trek films. In addition she provided special effects make-up to the 1996 video game Star Trek: Borg. Her work on Star Trek earned her six Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Makeup for a Series for the following episodes:

Bryant started her study of makeup art in the '80s and worked as teaching assistant to make-up artist William J. Tuttle between 1984 and 1995, followed by her ten year connection with Star Trek under department head Michael Westmore. Among her creations were the make-up's of Kazons, Bolians, and Borg. [1]

Prior to her work on Star Trek, Bryant was the makeup department head for the television thriller The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989), worked as makeup supervisor on Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992), as personal make-up artist for John Forsythe on I Witness Video (1992), and as hair stylist on the comedy Shelf Life (1993). Bryant served as makeup artist on K-9000 (1991), on The Water Engine (1992), on The Heart of Justice (1992), on the last season of The Wonder Years (1992-1993, co-starring Olivia d'Abo and Robert Picardo and along with Star Trek hair stylist Alicia Tripi), and on Batman Forever (1995).

The following years she provided special effects makeup for Scary Movie 2 (2001, with Deborah Holmes Dobson, Barry R. Koper, Allan A. Apone, and Robert Maverick), makeup for The Majesticč (2001, with Teressa Hill and Art Anthony), The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006), and for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). She worked as key makeup artist on the first season of the drama series American Family (2002, with Mark Shostrom and Veronica Lorenz), as makeup artist on the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002-2003) and on the unaired pilot episode of House (2004, along with Joel Harlow, Leo Corey Castellano, and Andrew Clement), and was the makeup department head on the final season of the drama series Strong Medicine (2005-2006, co-starring Kim Meredith and Michelle Horn).

More recent credits as makeup artist include the Cane pilot episode (2007, with Angela Gurule and Michael Moore), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), the sixth season of Cold Case (2008-2009), and the television drama The Eastmans (2009, with Lygia Orta and Gloria Ponce).

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