Occupation makeup artist Years active 1990-present | Name Christine Blundell Role Make-up artist | |
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Born October 1961 (age 54) London, England, UK Awards Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair Similar People Mike Leigh, William Schwenck Gilbert, Simon Channing Williams, Dick Pope, Marc Forster | ||
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Christine Blundell (born October, 1961) is a British make-up artist who won an Academy Award in the category of Best Makeup during the 72nd Academy Awards. She won for the film Topsy-Turvy. Her win was shared with Trefor Proud.
She has over 50 credits since her start in 1990 as well as a world renowned make-up academy based in Camden, the Christine Blundell Make-Up Academy (CBMA).
Christine opened her Makeup Academy to its first course in the Spring of 2007, with her business partner Petar Agbaba. She decided to open the Academy as she felt graduates coming out of the other private makeup schools were not sufficiently trained in certain skills.
At Christine Blundell Makeup Academy,
www.cbmacademy.com,students are taught all the necessary skills to become excellent makeup Trainees. With Christine’s extensive relationships within the film, TV and theatre world, all the tutors are industry led.
Christine earned Academy and BAFTA Awards for her work on Mike Leigh’s Topsy Turvy and BAFTA nominations for Mr Turner, Vera Drake and Mark Forster’s Finding Neverland.
Her first feature with Mike Leigh was Life is Sweet, which marked the beginning of a long and successful working relationship that has spanned more than 20 years and produced numerous features including Secrets and Lies, Happy-Go-Lucky and Another Year.
Among Christine’s other credits are Brian Helgeland’s Legend, Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate, Richard Curtis’s About Time and Fernando Meirelles’s The Constant Gardener.
More recently, Christine has worked on Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur, marking her third collaboration with director Guy Ritchie following Sherlock Holmes, and Wonder Woman with director Patty Jenkins, due for release this summer.
At the start of 2017, Christine was working on Paul King’s Paddington 2.