Linda Dowds

Makeup Designer

Biography

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
3 x Prime Time Emmy Wins for Outstanding Makeup
 
 
The Eyes of Tammy Faye in the press

Credits

Film

Production Company Notes
LEAR REX Barry Navidi Productions

Personal to Jessica Chastain Dir: Bernard Rose (with Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain, and Ted Levine)

FREAKIER FRIDAY Walt Disney Pictures

Personal Make-Up to Lindsay Lohan
Dir: Nisha Ganatra
Prods: Kristin Burr, Jamie Lee Curtis, Andrew Gunn
(with Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Manny Jacinto, Chad Michael Murray)

DREAMS (DOS LADOS) Independent

Personal to Jessica Chastain and Isaac Hernández
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

355 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

Production Company Notes
THE SAVANT Anonymous Content / Apple TV+

Personal Make-Up to Jessica Chastain
Dir: Matthew Heineman
Prods: Blair Breard, Kelly Carmichael, Matthew Heineman, Jessica Chastain
(with Jessica Chastain, James Badge Dale)

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)
2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup For a Single- Camera Series

THE KENNEDYS History Channel

Personal to Greg Kinnear
Dir: Jon Cassar
(with Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper and Katie Holmes)
2011 Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup For a Miniseries Or a Movie

GREY GARDENS HBO

Makeup Designer and Personal to Jessica Lange
Dir: Michael Sucsy
(with Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore)
2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For a Series, Miniseries Or a Special

RAKE Fox.

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

COPPER BBC America/ Cineflex Studios

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

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