Portrait of Ve Neill

Ve Neill

Costume & Make-Up

Biography

Ve Neill (born Mary Flores) is an American Academy Award-winning makeup artist. She won three Academy Awards for the films Beetlejuice, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Ed Wood; and has been nominated for eight Oscars total. She has worked on the entire film franchise of Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Hunger Games. She has worked on The Amazing Spider-Man 1 & 2, as well as multiple Batman movies including Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin. Other notable film work includes A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Hook, and Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks!, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Austin Powers in Goldmember, The Chronicles of Riddick, Constantine, Eragon, John Carter, The Host, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. She served as one of the judges on the Syfy original series Face Off, which featured makeup artists competing for $100,000.

Born: May 13, 1951

Place of Birth: Riverside, California, U.S.

Filmography

2017
Face Off: Game Face

as Self - Judge

2016
To Tell the Truth

as Self - Oscar- & Emmy-Winning Hollywood Makeup Artist

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self - Interviewee

2012
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

as Self - Makeup Department Head

2011
Face Off

as Self - Judge

1995
Batman Forever

as Woman Using NygmaTech Box (uncredited)