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Sian Grigg

Costume & Make-Up

Born April 2, 1969

Also known as Sian Grigg

Biography

Siân Grigg is a Welsh make-up artist. She is best known for her blockbusters and critically acclaimed feature films, including Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Inception (2010), and Django Unchained (2012). Grigg is a BAFTA award winner. At the 58th British Academy Film Awards, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair for her work on The Aviator. In 2016, she received another nomination from BAFTA for Best Makeup and Hair and her first Oscar nomination at the 88th Academy Awards in the category of Best Makeup and Hairstyling for her work on the film The Revenant. Her nomination was shared with Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini. Grigg is a former pupil of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Cardiff Art College and the London College of Fashion, where she studied make-up and hair for film and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Siân Grigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Makeup and Hairstyling · 2016 · nominated

Filmography45 titles

Inception

2010Makeup Artist

Django Unchained

2012Makeup Artist

Shutter Island

2010Makeup Artist

The Departed

2006Makeup Artist

Saving Private Ryan

1998Makeup Artist

The Great

2020Hair Designer, Makeup Designer

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013Makeup Artist

Catch Me If You Can

2002Makeup Artist

Young Sherlock

2026Makeup Designer

Titanic

1997Makeup Artist

Ex Machina

2014Makeup Department Head

Blood Diamond

2006Makeup Artist

The Revenant

2015Makeup Artist, Prosthetic Makeup Artist

Ever After: A Cinderella Story

1998Makeup Artist

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023Makeup Designer

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019Makeup Artist

The Muppet Christmas Carol

1992Makeup Artist

Brothers

2009Makeup Artist

Hamlet

1996Makeup Artist

Enola Holmes

2020Hair Designer, Makeup Designer

Suffragette

2015Hair Designer, Makeup Designer

The Aviator

2004Makeup Artist

28 Days Later

2002Makeup Artist

Gulliver's Travels

1996Assistant Makeup Artist

Seabiscuit

2003Makeup Artist

Goodbye Christopher Robin

2017Makeup & Hair

Far from the Madding Crowd

2015Makeup Department Head

Revolutionary Road

2008Makeup Artist

Howards End

1992Assistant Makeup Artist

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

2018Makeup Artist

Never Let Me Go

2010Makeup Department Head

The Mountain Between Us

2017Makeup Artist

Jurassic World: Dominion

2022Hair Designer, Makeup Designer

Body of Lies

2008Makeup Artist

Emma

1996Assistant Makeup Artist

The Beach

2000Makeup Artist

Annihilation

2018Hair Designer, Makeup Designer

Maestro

2023Makeup Department Head, Makeup Designer

A Little Bit of Heaven

2011Makeup Artist

Little Buddha

1993Hair Assistant

J. Edgar

2011Makeup Artist

The Regime

2024Hair Designer, Makeup Designer

Tom & Viv

1994Assistant Hairstylist

How to Talk to Girls at Parties

2017Hair Designer, Makeup Designer

The Little Stranger

2018Makeup & Hair, Prosthetic Designer