Hugo Villasenor

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Hugo Villasenor is a make-up artist who, as the Proteus Make-up FX Team's shop foreman, has worked on Star Trek.

He subsequently became employed as key special effects makeup artist on the first and second seasons of Star Trek: Discovery and the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard, which has earned him Emmy Award co-nominations in 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023, the 2019 one won. He also worked as additional makeup artist on the Star Trek: Short Treks episode "Runaway". All his work for Kurtzman-era Star Trek he did in the employ of CBS Television Studios' own inhouse makeup department headed by James MacKinnon.

Career

A 2004 graduate from the Make-Up Designory School, Burbank, California, [1] and plying his trade henceforth as a freelancer, Villasenor was also Proteus' make-up shop supervisor on the 2006 film Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny. He was part of the Proteus FX make-up effects team on the 2005 low-budget horror film aptly named Snuff-Movie and more recently worked with the team as an assistant make-up artist on the upcoming horror movie, The Lost Tribe.

Outside of his work with Proteus, Villasenor provided special make-up effects for the 2005 major motion picture adaptation of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. His other film credits include Sasquatch Mountain (featuring Tiny Ron and Craig Wasson) and Big Game (starring Star Trek: Voyager's Ethan Phillips).

Star Trek awards

Villasenor's work on Star Trek netted him the following awards and nominations,

Emmy Awards

Hugo Villesenor received the following Emmy Award nominations and win in the "Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie or Special" category.

Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards

Villasenor received the following Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award nomination in the "Best Special Makeup Effects – Television Series, Limited Series or Miniseries, or New Media Series" category.

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