Martin Samuel’s career in the film industry
spans 35 years, during which time he as chiefed and designed
countless feature films here in Los Angeles, Canada, London,
and Europe. He was nominated for an Oscar™ in 2004 for the hair
he designed for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black
Pearl, and received the BAFTA in the UK for the same movie.
Martin Started his career in salons and was
the artistic director of Crimpers, the first unisex salon in
London at the end of the swinging sixties. He then moved into
print and advertising commercials, and eventually moved into
cinema, working along side directors Alan Parker, Michael Apted,
Ridley and Tony Scott, Hugh Hudson, and Adrian Lynne.
Martin first came to Los Angeles in ’74 for
Stardust, a 60’s cult pop movie directed by Michael Apted, then
went on to New Mexico with Director Nicholas Roeg and created
the hair for David Bowie for The Man Who Fell To Earth and the
Station to Station World Tour. He then continued working on feature
films in LA.
In ’83 Martin and his family went back to reside in the English countryside,
working on more movies, opening a lucrative hair and beauty salon, and a clothes
boutique with his wife Mary. He returned to the film industry in ’92 with A
Kiss Before Dying, starring Sean Young, and worked on many more films culminating
in Evita for director Alan Parker. He created over 42 hairstyles for Madonna
depicting Eva Peron, for which he received a BAFTA nomination that year. He
returned to LA where he now resides in ’97 and his career and credits speak
for themselves. In 2003 he designed the hair and chiefed Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl, and has since been working with Johnny Depp on
Secret Window, Penelope Cruz on Noel, Sahara, and Chromophobia, and
Keira Knightley on Domino.
He recently completed designing and chiefing the
hair department on Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man’s Chest for which he received a British Academy Nomination for Make-up and Hair and Pirates of the Caribbean III: Worlds End for which he received a 2008 Oscar Nomination. H worked on the soon to be released Elegy with Penelope Cruz and the Showtime Special Tracey Ullman's State of the Union where he designed fifty different character wigs for Tracey Ullman.
He is currently working with Jennifer Anniston on her new movie Travelling.
|
