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Tara McDonald is an Irish, UK-based makeup designer and Emmy Award winner. In 2023, Tara received an Emmy for Outstanding Contemporary Makeup, along with a BAFTA nomination for Best Hair & Makeup Design and a Makeup Artists & Hair Stylists Guild nomination for Best Period and/or Character Makeup, all for her work on the hit Netflix series Wednesday. The makeup team also went on to win Best Makeup at the Online Film and Television Association Awards.
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2026
& Sons
Movie Makeup Artist
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2024
JOY
Movie Makeup Designer
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2023
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Movie Makeup Artist
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2022
The Phantom of the Open
Movie Makeup Artist
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2020
Blithe Spirit
Movie Hairstylist
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2020
Roadkill
TV show Makeup & Hair
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2019
Greed
Movie Hair Designer
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2018
King of Thieves
Movie Hair Designer
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2018
Monsters at Large
Movie Ashley
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2016
Close to the Enemy
TV show Makeup Artist
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2016
Dad's Army
Movie Makeup Artist
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2013
The Last Days on Mars
Movie Makeup Designer
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2012
The Poison Tree
TV show Makeup & Hair
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2011
Submarine
Movie Makeup Designer
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2009
Freefall
Movie Makeup Artist
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2008
The Other Man
Movie Makeup Artist
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2007
It's a Free World...
Movie Makeup Designer
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2007
Stardust
Movie Makeup Artist
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2007
M.I. High
TV show Makeup Designer
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2005
Goal!
Movie Hairstylist
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2005
My Summer of Love
Movie Makeup & Hair
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2005
Like Father Like Son
Movie Makeup Designer
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2004
Hustle
TV show Makeup Artist