About Sue
Sue has been in the entertainment world since birth. Born in Brighton and raised travelling the world with her parents in the ice extravaganza Holiday on Ice.
Surrounded by make-up, wigs, feathers and false eyelashes she developed a lifelong love for the art of Make-Up, Hairdressing and Character creating.
30 years in the Film industry has given Sue all the experience required to design every genre of film, television and fashion styling.
Her early days as a hairdresser on the floor, senior in two top Salons – Dave and Johan in South Africa and then Toni and Guy in Manchester – propelled her creativity in working with hair styling, hair pieces as well as making her own hairpieces.
Her passion for her craft led to Sue studying Make-Up and Prosthetics at Granada Films in the 1980s.
Since then Sue has developed and refined all her skills and is known to be a designer that can create characters, looks and designs from any period and style, in any sector of hair, wigs, make-up, SFX, prosthetics and body art.
All Sue’s fake beards and moustaches are hand laid hair by hair, a method that perfectly complements HD formats. Sue also designs and creates all types of tattoos and makes most of her own prosthetics, very often on site to minimize outsourcing.
Sue is highly experienced at designing long form projects, no project too big or too small.
Awards
RTS CRAFT & DESIGN AWARDS 2023 WINNER FOR MAKE-UP DESIGN ON FUNNY WOMAN SEASON 1
Hollywood Local 706 Make-Up Guild Nomination
Personal Make Up & Hair: Michelle Yeoh for her preparation Madame Tussauds Waxworks / Nelson Mandela during his Presidency. Personal Make Up & Hair to Arnie Schwarzenegger and Maria Schriver during Special SA Olympics Promotion.
Hair Design: Sue began her career as a hairdresser at Dave & Johan, the top Salon in South Africa,and was quickly snapped up by Toni &Guy on her return to UK where she achieved honours in the Master Cutters Course where she continued to study and master hair design, colour, extensions, wigs and hair pieces to marry complete looks and excel in creating characters.
Prosthetics and Body Art: The majority of productions Sue has worked on have been on remote locations and often require, due to creative Director’s visions and script evolving spontaneous prosthetics with no time to out source personally designing and fabricating prosthetics as well as tattoos and exquisite, original body art
