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Garrett Immel is a special effects make-up artist who worked on Star Trek: Enterprise. In 2005 he earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special for the fourth season episode "United", shared with Michael Westmore, Suzanne Diaz, Brad Look, Earl Ellis, and Jeff Lewis.

Immel started to work in the special effects makeup department in the early '90s and worked for the company Alterian Inc. on projects such as Army of Darkness (1992, with Ian Abercrombie and Patricia Tallman), Full Eclipse (1993), Cabin Boy (1994), Lord of Illusions (1995, starring Scott Bakula and Famke Janssen and along with Brian Sipe and Roger Borelli), and Warriors of Virtue (1997).

During the years, Immel has been a regular sculptor and special effects makeup artist for the K.N.B. Effects Group, a special effects company owned by Robert Kurtzman, Gregory Nicotero and Howard Berger which also worked on Star Trek Nemesis. Among the projects he worked on for this company are Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993, with Wayne Toth and Ron Pipes), DNA (1997, with Wayne Toth), Rob Bowman's The X-Files (1998, with Don Lanning), The Haunting (1999, with Wayne Toth), The Green Mile (1999), Ghosts of Mars (2001), Vanilla Sky (2001), Spy Kids (2001), Serenity (2005), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Planet Terror (2007), and The Unborn (2009).

Other projects Immel worked on as special effects makeup artist include Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), House on Haunted Hill (1999, with David Abbott, Diane Pepper, Faith Vecchio, Patricia Vecchio, Shannon Shea, and Alan Tuskes), We Were Soldiers (2002), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Sin City (2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), and J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield (2008, with Jake Garber, Brad Look, and Veronica Lorenz).

More recently he worked as on-set makeup supervisor on Drag Me to Hell (2009, with Janice Alexander, Michael F. Blake, Camille Calvet, Jessica Nelson, Ken Niederbaumer, Carol A. O'Connell, Cristina Patterson Ceret, and Susan Stepanian) and as special makeup effects artist on Priest (2011, with Jake Garber, Mark Garbarino, Jamie Kelman, James MacKinnon, Bart Mixon, and Ve Neill).

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