Candace Neal
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Candace Neal, sometimes credited as Candy Neal, is an Emmy Award-winning hair stylist. She was a hair stylist on Star Trek: The Next Generation during the first half of the sixth season. She was later the hair designer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during its first season.
Neal shared two Emmy Award nominations for their work on Star Trek in 1993: one for the TNG episode "Time's Arrow, Part II" (which she won) and the other for the DS9 episode "Move Along Home". Neal also won a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award as Key Hair Stylist on the 2001 science fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. This latter award was shared with fellow Star Trek hair stylists Karen Asano-Myers and Terry Baliel.
Among the films on which Neal has worked as a hair stylist are True Believe (starring Kurtwood Smith), Single White Female (starring Steven Weber), Made in America and The Deep End of the Ocean (both starring Whoopi Goldberg), How to Make an American Quilt (starring Winona Ryder, Alfre Woodard, and Jean Simmons), and Independence Day (featuring Brent Spiner). She has also been the personal hair stylist for such actors and actresses as Pierce Brosnan (on 1997's Dante's Peak), Michelle Pfeiffer (on 1998's The Deep End of the Ocean), Melanie Griffith (on 1999's Crazy in Alabama), Rita Wilson (on 2002's Auto Focus), and Renee Zellweger (on 2008's Leatherheads).
As Key Hair Stylist or Hair Department Head, her credits include such science fiction-oriented films as Mars Attacks! (featuring Paul Winfield), Minority Report (featuring Neal McDonough and Patrick Kilpatrick), and X-Men: The Last Stand (starring Kelsey Grammer, Famke Janssen, and Patrick Stewart). She was also Key Hair Stylist on the 2005 fantasy-oriented films Constantine (featuring Larry Cedar) and Sky High (composed by Michael Giacchino).