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

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 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

THE SAVANT

2024

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)

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)