Ve Neill
Costume & Make-Up · Acting · Crew · Production
Born May 13, 1951, Riverside, California, U.S.
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.
Filmography
- 2026Michael — Special Effects Makeup Artist
- 2026The Wolf and the Lamb — Executive Producer, Makeup Department Head
- 2025Monster Girls
- 2019The Highwaymen — Makeup Department Head
- 2018A Star Is Born — Makeup Department Head
- 2018Welcome to Marwen — Makeup Department Head
- 2017LBJ — Makeup Department Head
- 2016Pee-wee's Big Holiday — Makeup Department Head
- 2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 — Makeup Designer, Makeup Department Head
- 2014The Amazing Spider-Man 2 — Makeup Artist
- 2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 — Makeup Department Head
- 2014X-Men: Days of Future Past — Makeup Artist
- 2013The Host — Makeup Department Head
- 2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Makeup Department Head
- 2012John Carter — Makeup Department Head
- 2012The Amazing Spider-Man — Makeup Department Head
- 2012The Hunger Games — Makeup Department Head
- 2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — Makeup Department Head
- 2011Priest — Makeup Department Head
- 2011Trespass — Makeup Department Head
- 2010I Love You Phillip Morris — Makeup Department Head
- 2009The Soloist — Makeup Department Head
- 2008The Love Guru — Makeup Designer
- 2007Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End — Makeup Department Head
- 2007Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — Makeup Artist, Hairstylist
- 2006Eragon — Makeup Artist
- 2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — Makeup Department Head
- 2005Constantine — Makeup Department Head
- 2005Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda' — Self, Thanks
- 2005The Weather Man — Makeup Department Head
- 2004The Chronicles of Riddick — Special Effects Makeup Artist
- 2004Twisted — Makeup Effects
- 2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl — Makeup Department Head
- 2002Austin Powers in Goldmember — Makeup Artist
- 2002Death to Smoochy — Makeup Designer, Makeup Supervisor
- 2001A.I. Artificial Intelligence — Key Makeup Artist
- 2001Blow — Makeup Artist
- 2000How the Grinch Stole Christmas — Makeup Artist
- 1999Galaxy Quest — Makeup Department Head
- 1999Man on the Moon — Makeup Department Head
- 1999Stigmata — Makeup Department Head
- 1997Amistad — Makeup Department Head
- 1997Batman & Robin — Makeup Artist
- 1997Gattaca — Makeup Supervisor
- 1996Mars Attacks! — Makeup Artist
- 1996Matilda — Makeup Department Head, Key Makeup Artist
- 1995Batman Forever — Woman Using NygmaTech Box (uncredited), Makeup Artist
- 1994Cobb — Makeup Artist
- 1994Ed Wood — Key Makeup Artist
- 1994Junior — Makeup Artist
- 1993Mrs. Doubtfire — Key Makeup Artist
- 1993Rising Sun — Makeup Supervisor
- 1992Batman Returns — Makeup Artist, Makeup Supervisor
- 1992Hoffa — Makeup Department Head
- 1991Curly Sue — Makeup Artist
- 1991Hook — Makeup Artist
- 1990Dick Tracy — Special Effects Makeup Artist
- 1990Edward Scissorhands — Makeup Department Head
- 1990Flatliners — Makeup Artist
- 1988Beetlejuice — Makeup Artist
- 1988Big Top Pee-wee — Makeup Artist
- 1988Cocoon: The Return — Makeup Artist
- 1988Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special — Makeup & Hair
- 1987The Lost Boys — Makeup Artist
- 1986Radioactive Dreams — Makeup Designer
- 1982Money on the Side — Makeup Artist
- 1982Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl — Makeup Artist
- 1982Slapstick of Another Kind — Special Effects Makeup Artist
- 1982The Sword and the Sorcerer — Makeup Department Head
- 1981The Incredible Shrinking Woman — Makeup Artist
- 1980Nine to Five — Makeup Artist
- 1980The Day Time Ended — Makeup Artist
- 1979Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Makeup Artist
- 1979The Dark — Makeup Artist
- 1979Tourist Trap — Makeup Artist
- 1978Laserblast — Makeup Artist
- 1978Shoot the Sun Down — Makeup Artist
- 1977Cinderella — Hairstylist, Makeup Artist
- 1977Kingdom of the Spiders — Makeup Artist
- 1977The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover — Makeup Artist
- West Coast Fashion — Makeup & Hair
Appearances as themselves (7)
- 2019Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film — Self
- Face Off: Game Face — Self - Judge
- To Tell the Truth — Self - Oscar- & Emmy-Winning Hollywood Makeup Artist
- 2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 — Self - Makeup Department Head
- 2014And the Oscar Goes To... — Self - Interviewee
- 2012The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games — Self - Makeup Department Head
- Face Off — Self - Judge