Michael George Westmore (born 22 March 1938; age 74) was the makeup designer, makeup artist, or makeup supervisor on all of the Star Trek spinoffs and created the majority of species that first appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He was also the makeup artist for the four Next Generation movies Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis.

Westmore's father, Monte Westmore, was a hair stylist and makeup artist on the classic film Gone With the Wind (1939, featuring Phyllis Douglas and cinematography by Ernest Haller). Westmore's daughter, McKenzie Westmore, is an actress and has appeared in some Star Trek productions. His son, Michael Westmore, Jr., worked on Star Trek as an editor and prosthetic technician. His aunt, Pat Westmore worked as a hair stylist on Star Trek: The Original Series. His brother, Monty Westmore and sister-in-law, June Westmore also worked on Star Trek as makeup artists. Many other members of the Westmore family are famous makeup artists.

Westmore, born in Los Angeles, California, was nominated for an Academy Award for the makeup for Star Trek: First Contact. He had already won the award for 1985's Mask.

He has won Emmy Awards for the makeup for "Captive Pursuit", "Rules of Acquisition" and "Distant Voices". Westmore was also nominated for several Emmy Awards for the makeup for "The Visitor", "Apocalypse Rising", "The Dogs of War", and for the makeup for Krit and Nahsk in "Who Mourns for Morn?".

On the first five DVD's of Deep Space Nine, "Michael Westmore's Aliens" is a special feature in which he talks about his favorite aliens in the that series. There is also an extended interview with Westmore in the Star Trek: Insurrection (Special Edition) DVD. In addition to those interviews, he was one of the authors of Star Trek: The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal and Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts.

Outside of the Star Trek saga, he was the makeup artist for several films including Scream of the Wolf (1974), Raging Bull (1980, with Chuck Hicks and Gil Perkins), Rocky (1976, with Michael Dorn), Rocky II (1979, with David L. Ross), Rocky III (1982), Rocky V (1990, with set decoration by John M. Dwyer) and Along Came a Spider (2001, with Anton Yelchin, cinematography by Matthew F. Leonetti and music by Jerry Goldsmith). He also designed the Sleestak costumes for Land of the Lost. In his early days, he was Butch "Eddie" Patrick's makeup artist on The Munsters.

Star Trek interviews Edit

• TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Making of a Legend" ("Make-Up")
• TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "Memorable Missions"
• TNG Season 3 DVD special feature "Memorable Missions" ("The Offspring"), interviewed on 23 March 1994
• TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Four" ("Make Up"), interviewed on 23 March 1994 and 15 November 2001
• TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Five" ("Production"), interviewed on 15 November 2001
• DS9 Season 1 DVD special feature "Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season One" (interview from 2 October 2002)
• DS9 Season 1 DVD special feature "Deep Space Nine Scrapbook Year One"/ "Make-up" (interview from 5 October 1992)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection (DVD), Star Trek: Insurrection special feature "Westmore's Legacy" (interview from 2009)

External links Edit

• Michael Westmore at Wikipedia
• Michael Westmore at the Internet Movie Database