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We Made It: Make-up Artist Nina Pratley | reviews, news & interviews

We Made It: Make-up Artist Nina Pratley

We Made It: Make-up Artist Nina Pratley

The art of faces, from Formula 1 groupies to alien armies

Nina Pratley at work

It's easy to forget among the pile up of high-tech and high-concept flash that Hollywood films still depend on handiwork and hard graft from all kinds of trained craftspersons. On the Bruichladdich Site, Katherine McLaughlin meets one member of this army: Nina Pratley, an artist whose canvas is the faces of some of the best-known actors.

You can find out about life on set and the differences between film and television, from someone who's made up everyone from Formula 1 groupies to alien armies, Jennifer Saunders to Jennifer Lawrence.

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