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Greg Nelson is an Academy Award nominated makeup artist who worked on Star Trek: Voyager. His work on Voyager earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1995 for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series for the episode "Faces", shared with Michael Westmore, Tina Hoffman, Scott Wheeler, Mark Shostrom, Gilbert A. Mosko, Ellis Burman, R. Stephen Weber, and Brad Look and an Emmy Award in 1996 for the episode "Threshold", shared with Michael Westmore, Scott Wheeler, Tina Hoffman, mark Shostrom, Gilbert A. Mosko, Ellis Burman, R. Stephen Weber and Brad Look.

Nelson previously earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series for The Tracey Ullman Show episode High School Sweethearts in 1990, shared with Bari Burman, Thomas R. Burman, and Ron Walters and an Academy Award nomination in the same year for Best Makeup for the comedy Dad. In 1999 he earned a Saturn Award nomination for Best Make-Up for his work on the mystery feature The X-Files, shared with Tom Woodruff, Jr. and Michael Mills.

Prior to his work on Voyager, Nelson was a special effects makeup artist/ makeup artist on Ratboy (1986, along with Michael Burnett and Monique DeSart), Harry and the Hendersons (1987, with Michael Burnett and Brian Wade), the comedy Summer School (1987), The Seventh Sign (1988), In Loving Color, The Rocketeer (1991), F/X2 (1991), Death Becomes Her (1992), Toys (1992), Wolf (1994), and Stargate (1994).

Further credits include Picking Up the Pieces (2000), the fantasy comedy How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Rock Star (2001), The Time Machine (2002), Phone Booth (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), The Aviator (2004), Poseidon (2006), and Tropic Thunder (2008).

More recently Nelson worked as key makeup artist on the television comedy The Station (2009, with Gerald Quist), as special effects makeup artist on Eli Stone (2008-2009, with Deborah Holmes Dobson), and as special makeup effects artist on Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009, along with Allan A. Apone, Barry R. Koper, Brad Look, and Joy Zapata).

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