Joel Harlow

Personal Info

Known For Costume & Make-Up

Gender Male

Joel Harlow

Biography

Joel Harlow (born February 2, 1968) is an American make-up artist. He works steadily in many high-profile films. Harlow won an Academy Award for his work in the successful film Star Trek (2009), subsequently receiving another two nominations for The Lone Ranger (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016). Born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Harlow was inspired to work in filmmaking after seeing the 1933 film King Kong as a child. He later explained that he spent "hours in the basement creating things, and I knew I wanted to make characters. I just didn't know what it was at the time; that makeup was the way to do that." After graduating from high school, he moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts, where he majored in animation. Harlow worked together with actor Johnny Depp on several films, such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Alice in Wonderland. While they were both working on The Rum Diary in Puerto Rico, they found a photograph of a Native American, which they developed into the makeup design used on Tonto as played by Depp in the 2013 film The Lone Ranger. They had also used it to encourage Walt Disney Studios into producing the film, as at the time that they discovered the image, the film was close to being dropped. In the final design of Tonto, some eight prosthetics were created by Harlow for Depp and eighteen overlapping prosthetics when the actor played the older version of the character. In 2008, Harlow was nominated with Debbie Zoller, Brian Penikas, and Jake Garber for an Emmy Award for Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie, Or A Special for their work on the Mad Men season one episode "Nixon vs. Kennedy." He was a member of the team that won the Academy Award in 2009 for Star Trek, which he shared with Barney Burman and Mindy Hall. This was the first Oscar to have been awarded to any film in the franchise. He was once again nominated for an Academy Award for his work on The Lone Ranger alongside hairstylist Gloria Pasqua-Casny. He was the only person in the category who had previously been nominated. The award went to Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews for Dallas Buyers Club. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel Harlow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Costume & Make-Up

Old Time Radio

as Makeup & Hair

2024
Red One

as Makeup Designer

2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

as Makeup Department Head

2022
Black Adam

as Makeup Department Head

2022
Amsterdam

as Prosthetic Designer

2021
Jungle Cruise

as Makeup Department Head

2021
Eternals

as Makeup Department Head

2019
Hellboy

as Makeup Artist

2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as Makeup Department Head

2018
Black Panther

as Makeup Department Head

2017
Logan

as Makeup Designer

2016
2016
Star Trek Beyond

as Makeup Designer

2015
Mortdecai

as Makeup Artist

2015
Black Mass

as Makeup Department Head

2014
Into the Woods

as Makeup Artist

2014
Transcendence

as Makeup Artist

2013
The Lone Ranger

as Makeup Department Head

2012
Dark Shadows

as Makeup Department Head

2012
Dark Shadows

as Prosthetic Designer

2011
Battle: Los Angeles

as Makeup Department Head

2010
I Love You Phillip Morris

as Key Makeup Artist

2010
The Tourist

as Makeup Artist

2010
Alice in Wonderland

as Makeup Artist

2009
Star Trek

as Prosthetic Supervisor

2009
Angels & Demons

as Key Makeup Artist

2005
Constantine

as Key Makeup Artist

2005
Just Like Heaven

as Makeup Designer

2005
Domino

as Makeup Effects Designer

2004
Species III

as Special Effects Makeup Artist

2002
Adaptation.

as Makeup Department Head

2001
Planet of the Apes

as Makeup Artist

1999
Magnolia

as Special Effects Makeup Artist

1998
Phantoms

as Special Effects Makeup Artist

1995
Dead Man

as Special Effects Makeup Artist

1995
Lord of Illusions

as Special Effects Makeup Artist

1994
Night of the Demons 2

as Makeup Supervisor

1987
Killing Spree

as Special Effects Makeup Artist

Crew

2005
Fun with Dick and Jane

as Makeup Effects

2002
Auto Focus

as Makeup Effects

1999
Virus

as Makeup Effects

1995
The Langoliers

as Makeup Effects

1994
Brainscan

as Makeup Effects

1992
Basket Case 3: The Progeny

as Makeup Effects

1992
Happy Hell Night

as Makeup Effects

1990
Basket Case 2

as Special Effects Assistant

Actor

Dance With Me

as Artimus Ghast

2019
Hellboy

as Von Krupt

2019
Evil

as Joel Harlow

2004
Skinned Deep

as Octobaby

Writer

Dance With Me

as Writer

Old Time Radio

as Screenplay

Director

Dance With Me

as Director

Producer

Dance With Me

as Producer

Visual Effects

2019
Hellboy

as Creature Design

2004
Species III

as Creature Design

Editor