Brad Look working on Borg drone actor Louis Ortiz
Brad Look tweaking actor Dan Butler's make-up for VOY: "Vis à Vis"
Brad Look working on Xindi-Arboreal actor John Cothran, Jr. for The Shipment
Brad Look working on Phlox actor John Billingsley
Bradley "Brad" M. Look (born 5 June 1959; age 65) is a make-up artist who worked on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection. Together with Michael Westmore, Alan Sims, and William J. Birnes he wrote the reference book Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts in 2000. On Enterprise, Look was the personal makeup artist for John Billingsley. ("Regeneration" audio commentary, ENT Season 2 Blu-ray)
For his work on Star Trek, Look earned seven Emmy Award nominations and won one Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series/ Outstanding Makeup for a Series for the following episodes:
- 1996 Emmy Award for the episode "Threshold", shared with Michael Westmore, Greg Nelson, Scott Wheeler, Tina Hoffman, Mark Shostrom, Gilbert A. Mosko, Ellis Burman, and R. Stephen Weber
- 1996 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Visitor", shared with Michael Westmore, Camille Calvet, Dean Jones, Karen Iverson, Mark Bussan, Scott Wheeler, Ellis Burman, Gilbert A. Mosko, David Quashnick, Thom Surprenant, R. Stephen Weber, and Kevin Haney
- 1997 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Apocalypse Rising", shared with Michael Westmore, Camille Calvet, Karen Iverson, Ellis Burman, R. Stephen Weber, David Quashnick, Dean Jones, Mark Bussan, Belinda Bryant, James MacKinnon, Allan A. Apone, Perri Sorel, Mary Kay Morse, John Maldonado, Lisa Collins, and Karen Westerfield
- 1999 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Dogs of War", shared with Michael Westmore, Camille Calvet, Dean Jones, Mark Bussan, Mary Kay Morse, Ellis Burman, Belinda Bryant, Karen Iverson, Karen Westerfield, David Quashnick, Earl Ellis, Joe Podnar, R. Stephen Weber, Jeff Lewis, Sandra Rowden, Toby Lamm, Michael F. Blake, June Westmore, Judith Silverman, Craig Smith, Kevin Haney, Suzanne Diaz, Scott Wheeler, James Rohland, Tina Hoffman, and Natalie Wood
- 2001 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Void", shared with Michael Westmore, Tina Hoffman, Scott Wheeler, James Rohland, Suzanne Diaz, Natalie Wood, Ellis Burman, Jeff Lewis, Belinda Bryant, Earl Ellis, Joe Podnar, David Quashnick, and Karen Westerfield
- 2002 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Broken Bow", shared with Michael Westmore, Art Anthony, Belinda Bryant, David DeLeon, Suzanne Diaz, Earl Ellis, Jeff Lewis, Joe Podnar, Karen Westerfield, June Westmore, and Natalie Wood
- 2003 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Canamar", shared with Michael Westmore, Suzanne Diaz, Jeff Lewis, Earl Ellis, Michael Burnett, Joe Podnar, Todd McIntosh, Barry R. Koper, Art Anthony, Robert Maverick, Steven E. Anderson, Debbie Zoller, Roxy D'Alonzo, Ruth Haney, and Judith Silverman
- 2005 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "United", shared with Michael Westmore, Suzanne Diaz, Jeff Lewis, Earl Ellis, and Garrett Immel
In 2008, Look earned another Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) for the Pushing Daisies episode Dummy, shared with David DeLeon and Todd McIntosh.
In 1983, Look earned a BS degree in Theatre Design and Production from Illinois State University. In 1998, he graduated from the College Conservatory of Music. Look worked in the makeup department of Maniac Cop (1988), Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North (1989, with Alicia Tripi), Neon City (1991, directed by Monte Markham), A Woman Named Jackie (1991), the television drama Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story (1993), Heart of Darkness (1993, with Allan A. Apone, Jeff Lewis, and Adam Brandy), Congo (1995), Hollywood Confidential (1997, with Gloria Ponce), the short drama Slice of Life (2000, written, produced, and directed by David Livingston, starring Robert Picardo and Patricia Tallman, cinematography by Joe Chess, edited by Peter Lefevre, with assistant director Adele Simmons, wardrobe head Damaris Cordelia, and on-line editor John Carroll), The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), Venom (2005, with Ed French, Joe Podnar, and Bob Smithson), Poseidon (2006), The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).
Later projects include Trailer Park of Terror (2008, with Ken Niederbaumer and Robert Maverick), J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield (2008), Meet the Spartans (2008), the documentary Standard Operating Procedure (2008), Knight Rider (2008, with Allan A. Apone, Adam Brandy, Tina Hoffman, Barry R. Koper, John Maldonado, Rhonda O'Neal, and Lygia Orta), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Role Models (2008), Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008), Race to Witch Mountain (2009, starring The Rock), Super Capers (2009, along with Adam Brandy and Barry R. Koper), Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009), Unthinkable (2010), and Starstruck (2010).
Star Trek credits[]
(This list is currently incomplete.)
- Star Trek films
- Star Trek: First Contact – makeup artist
- Star Trek: Insurrection – makeup artist
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- "The Visitor" (uncredited) (Season 4)
- "Apocalypse Rising" (uncredited) (Season 5)
- "The Dogs of War" (Season 7)
- Star Trek: Voyager
- "Threshold" (Season 2)
- "Scorpion" (Season 3)
- "Scientific Method" (Season 4)
- "Year of Hell"
- "Year of Hell, Part II"
- "Concerning Flight"
- "Vis à Vis"
- "The Void" (Season 7)
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- "Broken Bow" (Season 1)
- "Shuttlepod One"
- "Canamar" (Season 2)
- "The Shipment" – makeup artist for John Cothran, Jr.
- "Storm Front, Part II" (Season 4)
- "Home"
- "Borderland" – makeup artist/ air brush for David Mattey (uncredited)
- "Cold Station 12"
- "The Augments"
- "Awakening"
- "Kir'Shara"
- "Observer Effect"
- "Babel One"
- "United" (uncredited)
- "The Aenar"
- "Affliction"
- "Bound"
- "In a Mirror, Darkly"
- "Demons"
- "Terra Prime"