Biography

Audrey is a Vancouver-based makeup artist originally from Paris, France.

She has a diploma in Art and Design from Auguste Renoir High School of the Arts in Paris. She continued her education by receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris - Eight in Visual Arts with a focus in Photography. While in university, she was an on-set stills photographer for student films, which in hindsight may have planted the seed for interest in her future career.

During this time, she began volunteering with the French Red Cross. In her five years with the organization, she spent her time in both practical and administrative positions. She served as a first-aid instructor and as an executive and local director for the organization.

Her interest in makeup artistry came as a surprise - in order to make her first-aid workshops more realistic, she decided to take a special effects/trauma makeup course - she immediately felt a connection to makeup artistry. She began practicing on anyone who would sit for her, and eventually decided to turn her hobby into a career. She took a nine-month course at Avant-Scene, Ecole de Maquillage Artistique (Avant-Scene School of Makeup Artistry) in Paris and graduated in 2006. She then worked for six years as a makeup artist for film, commercials and print throughout France. In 2012, she decided to further develop her makeup (and language) skills, and attended the Makeup Design For Film and Television Program at Vancouver Film School in Vancouver, Canada.

Soon after graduating from VFS with honors in August of 2013, she was selected to compete internationally with the International Make-Up Artist Trade Show (IMATS) as part of their "Battle of the Brushes" competition. She competed in Vancouver, Toronto, New York, and London; she received third place for her Rorschach-inspired prosthetic character at the London IMATS in 2014.

That same year, she was part of the makeup team, lead by HOD Makeup Artist and FX Makeup Artist Sarah Elizabeth, on the feature film Charlotte's Song. She worked as co-key and 1st Assistant Makeup Artist. The team won Best Makeup in a Motion Picture at the Leo Awards 2016, an awards ceremony for films and television made in British Columbia, Canada.

Audrey is a MUA and FX MUA member from the I.A.T.S.E Locale 891 and permittee from the ACFC West Locale 2020 and has been working throughout B.C. on feature films, short films and music videos.
- IMDb mini biography by: Audrey Himmer-Jude