Joel Harlow

Template:Realworld Template:2009spoiler Joel Harlow is an Emmy Award-winning special effects and prosthetic makeup artist and sculptor. Harlow and his team at Harlow FX designed and constructed two prosthetic figures of Porthos for use in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "A Night in Sickbay": one to be suspended in the super-hydration chamber and one to be resting within the quarantine box. [1] More recently, Harlow was the prosthetic makeup supervisor on 2009's Star Trek, for which he designed Vulcan and Romulan prosthetics [2] and was also responsible for Leonard Nimoy's make-up. [3]

Harlow hails from Grand Folks, North Dakota. He attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York, during which time he began working on low-budget films, including two of the cult Toxic Avenger films. He went on to do makeup effects work on such high-profile films as The Sandlot, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Lord of Illusions (starring Scott Bakula), Anaconda, Virus, and Battlefield Earth, as well as uncredited work on films like Magnolia, Bicentennial Man, and X-Men (starring Patrick Stewart and Famke Janssen and directed by Bryan Singer).

Harlow won two Emmy Awards for his work on two different TV mini-series based on Stephen King novels, 1994's The Stand and 1997's The Shining. He shared the first award with was DS9 makeup artist Camille Calvet, while the second Emmy was shared with Star Trek alumni Joe Colwell, Barry Koper, Ve Neill, and Jill Rockow.

As a member of IATSE Local 706, Harlow worked under the supervision of Rick Baker on Ron Howard's adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (featuring Clint Howard) and Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes (starring Erick Avari, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and David Warner) and worked under Star Trek: The Motion Picture makeup artist Ve Neill on Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intellignece. His first project as makeup department head was the 2002 film Adaptation, which featured Jim Beaver and Gregory Itzin in the cast.

In 2000, Harlow began working on the hit television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He created Harlow FX to handle effects work on Buffy in 2001, although the company has since been assigned to other projects such as Spielberg's remake of War of the Worlds and the HBO series Carnivàle. In 2002, Harlow received an Emmy nomination for his work on the Buffy episode "Hell's Bells." Three years later, he received another Emmy nomination for an episode of Carnivàle.

Harlow was a key makeup artist on all three of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films with Ve Neill (and all starring Lee Arenberg) and was also the prosthetic makeup designer for the last two films of the trilogy. He has been recognized by the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild for his work on the first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl, while his makeup effects for Dead Man's Chest (the second film) received a Saturn Award nomination from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.

Harlow's other makeup credits include the two sequels of The Matrix (both featuring Anthony Zerbe), the hit FOX series House (starring Jennifer Morrison), and such films as Auto Focus, The Chronicles of Riddick (starring Karl Urban), Christmas with the Kranks, Domino (which featured cinematography by Dan Mindel), and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (featuring Bruce Greenwood). He more recently completed prosthetics work on Charlie Wilson's War (starring Rachel Nichols) and prosthetic sculpting for The Soloist (featuring Stephen Root).

Currently, Harlow is working as a makeup artist for Johnny Depp on Tim Burton's film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

External links

• Harlow FX - Official company site
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• Joel Harlow at FameHog.com