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Michael "Mike" George Westmore (born 22 March 1938; age 86) was the makeup designer, makeup artist, and 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 three 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. Spanning the years 1988-2005, Westmore was nominated for an Emmy Award every year the spin-off television series franchise was in production, the only Star Trek production staffer to do so. Receiving on several occasion two nominations in a particular year, his total was 24 nominations, of which he won five. Apart from his Star Trek work, he also garnered in those years additional Emmy Award nominations for the television series and movies Highway to Heaven, David (both in 1988), Babe Ruth (1992), and Geppetto (2000), bringing his grand total of nominations to 28.

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. Westmore was the makeup artist on Nicholas Meyer's 1983 TV movie The Day After, co-starring Bibi Besch and photographed by Gayne Rescher. In his early days, he was Butch "Eddie" Patrick's makeup artist on The Munsters.

Star Trek interviews

Star Trek awards

Westmore has received the following awards and nominations in the various Makeup categories:

Academy Awards

Emmy Awards

Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards

  • 2000 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards nomination for the episode "Dark Frontier", shared with Scott Wheeler, James Rohland, and Ellis Burman, Jr.
  • 2001 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards nomination for the episode "Fair Haven", shared with Ellis Burman, Jr., Suzanne Diaz, Tina Hoffman, James Rohland, Scott Wheeler, and Natalie Wood
  • 2002 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards nomination for the episode "The Void"

Saturn Awards

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