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Tania McComas (born 15 April 1964; age 59) is a makeup artist who worked on several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. On the fifth season episode "Cost Of Living", McComas worked on Brian Bonsall's make up. This work earned her an Emmy Award in 1992 in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series, shared with Michael Westmore, Gerald Quist, Ron Walters, Jane Haymore, Bob Scribner, Ken Diaz, Karen Westerfield, and Richard Snell.

In 2000 she received a BAFTA Film Award nomination in the category Best Make Up/Hair for her work on American Beauty which she shared with Carol A. O'Connell. McComas worked as hair stylist for Jamie Lee Curtis (1996 House Arrest), Kevin Spacey (2001 K-PAX, 2001 The Shipping News, 2001 Austin Powers in Goldmember, 2003 The Life of David Gale, 2003 Edison 2006 Superman Returns, and 2011 Inseparable), Tia Carrere (1996 High School High), and Katherine Heigl (2010 Life As We Know It).

McComas' other credits as makeup artist include Freddy's Nightmares (1989-1990), Lambada (1990), American Me (1992, with David Abbott, Ken Diaz, Gloria Ponce, Jill Rockow, and Patricia Vecchio), Cliffhanger (1993, with Jeff Dawn and Jake Garber), Last Action Hero (1993, with Thomas R. Burman, Bari Burman, Jeff Dawn, Richard Snell, Natalie Wood, Jake Garber, Michael Key, and Alicia Tripi), True Lies (1994, with Jeff Dawn and Joe Colwell), Unhappily Ever After (1995, with Nikki Cox), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997, with Vivian McAteer and Carol A. O'Connell), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998, with James MacKinnon and Thomas E. Surprenant), Space Cowboys (2000, with Jenice Alexander, Allan A. Apone, Carol A. O'Connell, and Francisco X. Perez), Pay It Forward (2000), Mystic River (2003), and Million Dollar Baby (2004).

As makeup department head, McComas worked on Home Alone 3 (1997), The Negotiator (1998), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006, with Roxy D'Alonzo), An American Carol (2008, with Hazel Catmull and Ken Niederbaumer), Gran Torino' (2008), the comedy Killers (2010), and One for the Money (2012, with Steven E. Anderson).

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