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Gerald "J(G)erry" Alan Quist (born 11 October 1965; age 59) 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 Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Together with Westmore he created the headpiece for Armus in TNG: "Skin Of Evil" 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 Creature (1985, with Jill Rockow), Re-Animator (1985, starring Jeffrey Combs), Critters (1986) and Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Masters of the Universe (1987, with Michael Westmore, June Westmore, Todd McIntosh, and Michael Burnett), and Johnny Handsome (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), David (1989, shared with Michael Westmore), for the American Playhouse episode Tru (1993), and for Buffalo Girls (1995, shared with Todd McIntosh). He won an Emmy Award for the Quantum Leap episode The Leap Home: November 25, 1969 in 1991, shared with Michael Mills and for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer 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 Sibling Rivalry (1990), the television thriller Donor (1990), Addams Family Values (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994), Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), Sgt. Bilko (1996), Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996), Breakfast of Champions (1999), the television drama True West (2002), Hostage (2005), The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006), and Live Free or Die Hard (2007).

Quist worked on several projects as personal make-up artist for actor Bruce Willis, including Last Man Standing (1996), The Jackal (1997), Mercury Rising (1998), The Siege (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), The Story of Us (1999), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Disney's The Kid (2000), Unbreakable (2000), Bandits (2001), Hart's War (2002), Tears of the Sun (2003), The Whole Ten Yards (2004), Sin City (2005), Alpha Dog (2006), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), What Just Happened (2008), Red (2010), Setup (2011), and Red 2 (2013). For A Good Day to Die Hard (2013), he served as makeup department head.

He worked as make-up department head on Tropic Thunder (2008, earning him a 2009 OFTA Film Award nomination), the television comedy The Station (2009), and Fast & Furious (2009), as make-up artist for actress Megan Fox on Jonah Hex (2010), John Carter (2012), and as make-up artist for actor Sean Penn in Gangster Squad (2013).

He later found tenure as key makeup artist on Olive Kitteridge and the HBO show Westworld.

Star Trek credits[]

(This list is currently incomplete.)

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:

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