Makeup Artist Tutors

Jenny Rhodes-McLean receiving her Emmy Award

Jenny graduated from our Academy and she quickly made her mark in the film industry, designing short films such as Keeping Up with the Joneses, directed by Michael Pearce and starring Maxine Peake, Geoff Bell, and Adeel Akhtar.

Jenny’s first TV credit was for the BBC period drama The Spanish Flu, a make-up artist to English actor Mark Gatiss — Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Game of Thrones, working under Bafta and Emmy-winning Hair and Make-Up designer Erika Okvist, with whom Jenny continued working for the next 15 years.

In 2021, Jenny supervised the Hair and makeup department for Shondaland’s period drama Bridgerton, for which she won a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Period and/or Character Hairstyling. This promoted a step up in Jenny’s career, leading her to HOD season three of Tony McNamara’s satire comedy The Great, starring Elle Fanning and Nicolas Hoult – Hulu.

Other design credits include period drama The Serpent Queen starring award-winning and Oscar-nominated Samantha Morton – to whom she has gone on to multiple projects with since. You can view Jenny’s full professional biography on this link.

Jeremy Woodhead & Natalie Portman in ‘V for Vendetta” 2005 film

Our Casualty makeup module Tutor, Hair and Makeup Designer Jeremy Woodhead, has 30 years of experience of working in the industry. He designed many iconic films, like ‘Cloud Atlas’, ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secret of Dumbledore’, ‘Judy’, to name just a few. You can see Jeremy’s full professional biography on this link.

Nadia Stacey at 2024 Vanity Fair party After receiving her Oscar For ‘Poor Things’

Nadia Stacey was our guest tutor during our Bootcamp exam week, where our students created looks in homage to Nadia’s design of looks in ‘Cruella’. Nadia won an Oscar and a BAFTA this year for her Hair & Makeup Design of ‘Poor things’ where 2 of our graduates, Claire and Grayson also worked as Makeup artist & Junior Makeup artist, respectively. Nadia also won another BAFTA award for her design of ‘The Favourite’. You can see Nadia’s full professional biography on this link.

Melanie joined Royal Opera House almost 24 years ago and worked as Wigs and Makeup Manager for new productions there until February 2024, when she started working as a Freelance Wig, Hair & Makeup Artist. She graduated from London College of Fashion and is an Award winner of a Technical theatre award in 2016 for great achievement in wigs and make-up. Melanie is the author of “A practical guide in wig making and wig dressing” published in September 2018. She teaches Period makeup and also ballet hair at our Academy. You can see Melanie’s full professional biography on this link.

Denise worked as Hair, Makeup and Prosthetics designer on many major films and TV Series, the most recent being ‘Wicked Little Letters’, ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, ‘The Wheel of Time’ , ‘Operation Mincemeat’ and ‘Mulan’, which brought her the 2021 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award Nominations for Best Period and character makeup, Best special makeup effects and Best period and character hairstyling. You can see Denise’s full professional biography on this link.

Jane Walker is a multi-award-winning Hair and Make up designer of ‘Game of Thrones’, TV Series and she teaches Casualty module at our Academy. With film credits far too long to name, by designing cult favourites like “Game of Thrones” and “The Mummy Returns” she’s up there with the best…You can see Jane’s full professional biography on this link.

Kristyan started working in film and TV over 20 years ago and now has over 200 credits to his name. He was a Prosthetics Designer of ‘Scoop’, a recent Netflix film and his career highlights include ‘The Theory of Everything’, which brought him a BAFTA nomination for Best Makeup and Hair in 2015. Kristyan won BIFA award in 2021 for Best Makeup & Hair Design of ‘Electrical Life of Louis Wain’. He was a Prosthetics Designer of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ film and Prosthetics Supervisor on ‘Mission Impossible: Fallout’. Kristyan is a Director of the renowned KM Effects Prosthetics Studio – you can see his full professional biography on this link.

Claire started working in film and TV in 1980s and worked as a Makeup artist, Supervisor and Designer. She is an Emmy winner and was also nominated in 2021 for the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards, for her work on ‘Bridgerton’ TV Series. Claire also worked on such cult films as ‘Guardians of the Gagaxy’ , ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘Asteroid City’, to name just the few. Claire teaches Casualty makeup module and also taught at our Bootcamp exam week. You can see Claire’s full professional biography on this link.

Ivana is a 5 time BAFTA Nominee and Winner for her work on ‘Darkest Hour’ and has also been nominated for BIFA, Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards and Emmy several times. Ivana taught at our Bootcamp week, helping students to research and create their final projects from the briefs they received from our Principal Christine Blundell the week before. You can see Ivana’s full professional biography on this link.

Laura graduated in 2002 from the highly prestigious University of the Arts (attending The London College of Fashion) where she studied Art and Design, Womenswear with Textiles, and finally Editorial Hair styling and Specialist Makeup HND. She went on to have a long and successful career spanning over 18 years with The Estée Lauder Companies, working for the MAC PRO Global Flagship store providing masterclasses and education at locations in and around London. Over the years Laura has worked at fashion week shows and social media influencer events, her work has appeared on celebrities, on Channel 4 and in music videos. She covers the Introduction to makeup module at CBMA.

Lesa has been Christine’s chief make-up artist for some years now….how does she put up with it! A lovelier character you are not going to meet. We try and arrange Lesa to start the course as all the new students are nervous. She soon has them working with big fat smiles.

Harriet worked as Makeup artist, Makeup supervisor and designer on many major films and TV series since 2010. She was Crowd Hair & Makeup Supervisor on a popular Apple TV Series ‘Slow Horses’ and also a Makeup artist on ‘The Crown’ and ‘House of the Dragon’. Harriet teaches Casualty makeup at our Academy and she has had many of our graduates as her trainees on set.

Nuria has been a Makeup artist for more than 20 years now, working on many major films and TV Series, like , ‘Maestro’, ‘The Crown’ & ‘Jurassic World’, to name just a few. Wealth of experience and a lovely personality – our students absolutely love her!

Hair & Makeup Designer Susan Cole graduated from our Academy in 2015 and since then worked on many projects as a Makeup Artist and then designed Marcella and Pennyworth TV Series in 2020. Susan’s expertise lies in Wigs & Period hair and she usually teaches our Wig dressing & styling module and also Period makeup module.

Andrea has most recently worked as Crowd hair & makeup supervisor on such gems like Batman and 1917, managing huge crowds and trainee and junior makeup artists.

Suzanne worked as a Crowd Supervisor & Crowd makeup artist and hair stylist in her career, on films like Napoleon, Maestro, Dumbo and Sherlock Holmes and she is also one of our Tutors.

Gina Blondell is our Fashion make up tutor and a more stylish addition to our tutor group you couldn’t find. Graduating from university with a degree in Graphics and Illustration, Gina then went on to train at CBM Academy. Predominantly working within the realm of fashion, Gina also works in film, music and advertising. And has the best boots in the business. Fact.

For our casualty week our students are with one of the safest pair of hands in the industry. Julies credits range from Gladiator, Dark Knight Rises, to Batman and The Rings of Power. After many years in the industry she is still very excited about products and what they can do.