Linda Dowds

Makeup Designer

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Heads of Department

Agent: Alice Dunne
Assistant: Grace Malloch

Heads of Department

AWARDS

2022 Academy Award for Best Make-Up Design - THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

2022 British Academy Film Award for  Make-Up Design- THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

2022 The Critics Choice Award for Best Make-Up Design  - THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

2022 Hollywood Critics Association Award for Best Make-Up Design - THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

2022 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Make-Up Design - THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup For a Single- Camera Series – TRUE DETECTIVE – HBO

2011 Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup For a Miniseries Or a Movie – THE KENNEDYS – ReelzChannel

2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For a Series, Miniseries Or a Special – GREY GARDENS – HBO

 

The Eyes of Tammy Faye in the press

Hollywood Reporter -  How Jessica Chastain Transformed Into Tammy Faye Bakker in New Biopic

Variety - Oscars Predictions: Best Makeup and Hairstyling – ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ and ‘House of Gucci’ Show Potential Excitement

NY Times - How Jessica Chastain Became Tammy Faye Bakker

US Magazine -  Key to the Character! Jessica Chastain’s Makeup in ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Had to Be as ‘Authentic as Possible’

 

Film

ProductionCompanyNotes

DREAMS (DOS LADOS)

Independent

Personal Make-Up to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Michel Franco

IRISH WISH

Netflix

Personal Make-Up to Lindsay Lohan
Dir: Janeen Damian

MOTHER'S INSTINCT

Neon

Personal to Jessica Chastain Dir: Benoit Delhomme (with Jessica Chastain , Anne Hathaway, and Anders Danielsen Lie)

MEMORY

Independent

Personal to Jessica Chastain Dir: Michael Franco (with Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard)

THE GOOD NURSE

Netflix

Personal to Jessica Chastain Dir. Tobias Lindholm (with Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne)

THE FORGIVEN

House of Un-American Activities

Makeup Designer
Dir: John Michael McDonagh
(with Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes)

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

Cinemax / Universal Studios

Makeup Designer and Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Michael Showalter
(with Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield)
2022 Academy Award for Best Hair and Make-Up 2022 British Academy Film Award for Best Hair and Make-U 2022 The Critics Choice Award for Best Hair and Make-Up
2022 Hollywood Critics Association Awards Nomination for Best Hair and Make-Up

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Freckle Films/ Genre Films

Makeup Designer and Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Simon Kinberg
(with Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger & Sebastian Stan)

FINCH

Amblin Entertainment/ ImageMovers/ Misher Films/ Dutch Angle

Makeup Designer and Personal to Tom Hanks
Dir: Miguel Sapochnik
(with Tom Hanks)

IT CHAPTER TWO

KatzSmith Productions/ Lin Pictures/ New Line Cinema/ Vertigo Entertainment

Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Andy Muschietti
(with Jessica Chastain , Bill Skarsgard & James McAvoy)

X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX

Twentieth Century Fox

Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Simon Kinberg
(with Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender)

MOLLY’S GAME

STX

Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Aaron Sorkin
(with Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba and Kevin Costner)

WOMAN WALKS AHEAD

Bedford Falls Company

Makeup Designer
Dir: Susanna White
(with Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell and Michael Greyeyes)

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN

Lyla Films

Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Xavier Dolan
(with Jessica Chastain, Natalie Portman, Kit Harington)

WHAT THEY HAD

Unified Pictures/ Bona Fide Productions/ Look to the Sky Films

Makeup Designer
Dir: Elizabeth Chomko
(with Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon )

IT

New Line Cinema

Makeup Designer
Dir: Andres Muschietti
(with Jaeden Lieberer and Finn Wolfhard)

55 STEPS

Elsani Film/Sony Pictures

Personal to Hilary Swank
Dir: Bille August
(with Hilary Swank and Helena Bonham Carter)

MISS SLOANE

EuropaCorp

Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: John Madden
(with Jessica Chastain and Mark Strong)

THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE

Focus Features

Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Niki Caro
(with Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl)

THE HUNTSMAN

Universal Pictures

Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
(with Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt and Chris Hemsworth)

ROBOCOP

Sony Pictures

Makeup Designer
Dir: Jose Padilha
(with Joel Kinnaman and Abbie Cornish)

SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME

Paramount Pictures

Personal to Greg Kinnear
Dir: Michael Carney
(with Greg Kinnear and Renée Zellweger)

BY WAY OF HELENA

Mandeville Films

Makeup Designer
Dir: Kieran Darcy-Smith
(with Woody Harrelson, Liam Hemsworth and Alicia Braga)

CRIMSON PEAK

Warner Bros.

Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Guillermo del Toro
(with Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska)

ROSEWATER

OddLot Entertainment

Makeup Designer
Dir: Jon Stewart
(with Gael Garcia Bernal and Golshifteh Farahani)

MAMA

Universal Pictures

Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Andrés Muschietti
(with Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau )

RAMPART

Millennium Entertainment

Makeup Designer and Personal to Woody Harrelson
Dir: Oren Moverman
(with Woody Harrelson,Robin Wright,and Ben Foster)

THE THING

Universal Pictures

Makeup Designer
Dir: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr
(with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton)

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

MGM

Makeup Designer
Dir: Steve Pink
(with Lizzy Caplan and Rob Corddry)

DEFENDOR

Sony Pictures

Makeup Designer
Dir: Peter Stebbings
(with Kat Dennings and Woody Harrelson)

FLASH OF GENIUS

Universal Pictures

Makeup Designer
Dir: Marc Abraham
(with Greg Kinnear and Lauren Graham)

CHARLIE BARTLETT

MGM

Makeup Designer
Dir: Jon Poll
(with Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis and Anton Yelchin)

SHOOT EM UP

New Line Cinema

Makeup Designer
Dir: Michael Davis
(with Monica Bellucci and Paul Giamatti)

MAN OF THE YEAR

Morgan Creek

Makeup Designer
Dir: Barry Levinson
(with Laura Linney and Christopher Walken)

HOLLYWOODLAND

Universal Pictures

Makeup Designer
Dir: Allen Coulter
(with Adrien Brody and Diane Lane)

FEVER PITCH

Twentieth Century Fox

Makeup Designer
Dir: The Farrelly Brothers
(with Ione Skye and KaDee Strickland)

THE PACIFIER

Disney/Spyglass

Makeup Designer
Dir: Adam Shankman
(with Brittany Snow and Lauren Graham)

A DIFFERENT LOYALTY

Lionsgate

Personal to Sharon Stone
Dir: Marek Kanievska
(with Sharon Stone and Rupert Everett)

COLD CREEK MANOR

Buena Vista/Touchstone

Makeup Designer
Dir: Mike Figgis
(with Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid)

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN TEN DAYS

Paramount Pictures

Makeup Designer-Canadian Unit
Dir: Donald Petrie
(with Michael Michele and Shalom Harlow)

AGAINST THE ROPES

Paramount Pictures

Makeup Designer
Dir: Charles Dutton
(with Omar Epps and Kerry Washington )

BEHIND THE RED DOOR

DEJ Productions

Makeup Designer
Dir: Matia Karrell
(with Kyra Sedgwick and Keifer Sutherland)

DON'T SAY A WORD

New Regency

Makeup Designer
Dir: Gary Fleder
(with Brittany Murphy, Sean Bean and Famke Janssen)

FOCUS

Paramount Classics

Makeup Designer
Dir: Neal Slavin
(with William H. Macy)

Television

ProductionCompanyNotes

GEORGE AND TAMMY

Freckle Films / Paramount Plus

Makeup Designer and Personal to Jessica Chastain
Dir: John Hillcoat
Prod: Abe Sylvia
with Jessica Chastain, Michael Shannon

TRUE DETECTIVE

HBO

Personal to Woody Harrelson
Dir: Cary Fukunaga
(with Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey)

GREY GARDENS

HBO

Makeup Designer and Personal to Jessica Lange
Dir: Michael Sucsy
(with Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore)

THE KENNEDYS

History Channel

Personal to Greg Kinnear
Dir: Jon Cassar
(with Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper and Katie Holmes)

RAKE

Fox.

Personal to Greg Kinnear
Dir: Various
(with Greg Kinnear)

COPPER

BBC America/ Cineflex Studios

Makeup Designer
Dirs: Various
(with Tom Weston-Jones)