Makeup artist who headed the makeup department on Star Trek: Discovery, Short Treks and Star Trek: Picard, winning Emmy Awards for both series after earlier prosthetics work on the 1990s productions.
James MacKinnon is a makeup artist whose association with Star Trek goes back to the 1990s, when he worked on prosthetic and special makeup effects for The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and the film Star Trek: First Contact. He shared an Emmy nomination for the Deep Space Nine episode Apocalypse Rising.
He returned to the franchise as makeup department head on Star Trek: Discovery, and held the same post on Short Treks and Star Trek: Picard, working alongside the prosthetics designers who created the new looks for Klingons, Kelpiens and Romulans.
His team shared Emmy wins for the Discovery episode If Memory Serves and the Picard episode Absolute Candor, with further nominations for Will You Take My Hand? and Hide and Seek. On Picard's second season he applied the Borg Queen makeup worn by Annie Wersching. He also made brief on-screen cameos in both series.