Kim Santantonio

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Kim Santantonio is a hair stylist who worked on several episodes of the fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Prior to his work on Star Trek, Santantonio worked as hair stylist on L.A. Law (1986-89) and The Young Riders (1989-90, with Michael Key and Alicia Tripi), the television drama Destination America (1987, starring Bruce Greenwood), and Edward Scissorhands (1990, with Ve Neill, Yolanda Toussieng and Steve LaPorte).

Further credits as hair stylist include Hook (1991), Batman Returns (1992), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Addams Family Values (1993, with Kevin Haney, Steve LaPorte, Gerald Quist, Toni-Ann Walker and Dean Gates), Batman Forever (1995), Twister (1996), The Rock (1996), Blade (1998), Playing by Heart (1998), The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Terminal (2004, with Katalin Elek, Zoltan Elek, Edouard F. Henriques, Greg Funk, Geneva Nash Morgan and Sandra Rowden), Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005), Poseidon (2006), Bryan Singer's Superman Returns (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008, starring Frank Langella), and Jonah Hex (2010).

Some of the actors he worked with include Bruce Willis in Nobody's Fool (1994), Stanley Tucci in Winchell (1998) and The Whole Shebang (2001), Bridget Fonda in Lake Placid (1999) and The Whole Shebang (2001), Chris Klein in Say It Isn't So (2001), and Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3 (2007, with Kirsten Dunst).

In 2004, Santantonio received a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award nomination in the category Best Period Hair Styling – Feature for his work on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World which he shared with Yolanda Toussieng. In 2009, he received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Make Up & Hair in Frost/Nixon, shared with Edouard F. Henriques.

Santantonio later worked as hair department head on Take Me Home Tonight (2011) and This Must Be the Place (2011).

Star Trek credits

• TNG:
  • "Family"
  • "Brothers"
  • "Suddenly Human"
  • "Remember Me"
  • "Legacy"
  • "Reunion"
  • "Future Imperfect"
  • "Final Mission"
  • "The Loss"
  • "Data's Day"
  • "The Wounded"
  • "Devil's Due"
  • "Clues"
  • "First Contact"
  • "Galaxy's Child"
  • "Night Terrors"
  • "Identity Crisis"
  • "The Nth Degree"
  • "Qpid"
  • "The Drumhead"
  • "Half a Life"
  • "The Host"
  • "The Mind's Eye"
  • "In Theory"
  • "Redemption" (uncredited)

External link

• Kim Santantonio at the Internet Movie Database