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Vanessa Elese

  • Make-up Department
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Vanessa is an Emmy Award Winning Celebrity Makeup Artist and Beauty Expert most recently honored with the 2015 Variety Ensemble Award for her design work on the ever popular "Orange is the New Black." She delights in philanthropic work and is honored to be on the board of Child Crisis Center of Arizona.
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    • Awards
      • 1 win total

    Known for

    Susan Lucci, Debbi Morgan, Rebecca Budig, Cameron Mathison, and Darnell Williams in All My Children (1970)
    All My Children
    6.8
    TV Series
    • Makeup Department
    Glenn Close and Rose Byrne in Damages (2007)
    Damages
    8.1
    TV Series
    • Makeup Department
    Walton Goggins, Lana 5, Aaron Moten, and Ella Purnell in Fallout (2024)
    Fallout
    8.3
    TV Series
    • Makeup Department
    Gary Sinise and Sela Ward in CSI: NY (2004)
    CSI: NY
    7.0
    TV Series
    • Makeup Department

    Credits

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    Makeup Department

    • Mad Hungry
      • makeup department head
      • Released
      • TV Series
      • 2010
    • Walton Goggins, Lana 5, Aaron Moten, and Ella Purnell in Fallout (2024)
      Fallout
      8.3
      TV Series
      • additional makeup artist
      • 2024
    • Craig Roberts, Gage Golightly, and Oliver Cooper in Red Oaks (2014)
      Red Oaks
      7.9
      TV Series
      • key makeup artist
      • 2015–2017
    • Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner in Difficult People (2015)
      Difficult People
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Personal Makeup Artist: Andrea Martin
      • Personal Makeup Artist: Andrea MArtin
      • 2017
    • Ellie Kemper in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015)
      Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
      7.5
      TV Series
      • makeup artist
      • 2015
    • Deadly Affairs (2012)
      Deadly Affairs
      6.9
      TV Series
      • personal makeup artist: Ms. Susan Lucci
      • personal makeup artist: makeup artist - ms. lucci
      • 2012–2014
    • John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson, and Matt Malloy in Alpha House (2013)
      Alpha House
      7.5
      TV Series
      • key makeup artist
      • 2013–2014
    • Michael Rapaport, John Stamos, Bryan Callen, and Tika Sumpter in My Man Is a Loser (2014)
      My Man Is a Loser
      4.4
      • makeup department head
      • 2014
    • Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, Selenis Leyva, Laura Prepon, Taylor Schilling, Uzo Aduba, Dascha Polanco, and Danielle Brooks in Orange Is the New Black (2013)
      Orange Is the New Black
      8.0
      TV Series
      • co-key makeup
      • co-key makeup artist
      • co-key makeup arttist
      • 2013
    • Saturday Night Live (1975)
      Saturday Night Live
      8.0
      TV Series
      • makeup artist
      • 2010–2013
    • Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jon Lovitz in The Apprentice (2004)
      The Apprentice
      4.3
      TV Series
      • personal makeup artist
      • 2013
    • AnnaSophia Robb and Lindsey Gort in The Carrie Diaries (2013)
      The Carrie Diaries
      7.0
      TV Series
      • makeup artist (uncredited)
      • 2013
    • Gary Sinise and Sela Ward in CSI: NY (2004)
      CSI: NY
      7.0
      TV Series
      • key makeup artist
      • 2012
    • Glenn Close and Rose Byrne in Damages (2007)
      Damages
      8.1
      TV Series
      • key makeup artist
      • 2010–2012
    • Mad Hungry (2010)
      Mad Hungry
      7.8
      TV Series
      • makeup department head
      • makeup department head, personal makeup artist
      • makeup designer
      • 2010–2012
    • The Revolution (2012)
      The Revolution
      4.4
      TV Series
      • key makeup artist
      • 2012

    Actress

    • Glenn Close and Rose Byrne in Damages (2007)
      Damages
      8.1
      TV Series
      • High-End Hooker
      • Hooker
      • Prostitute
      • 2007–2010

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      Celebrity makeup artist.

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