Greg Nicotero is an American make-up artist. He knows how to create high-quality make-up, and is also well versed in special effects. In particular, a man is good at creating images for all sorts of evil spirits, such as zombies, vampires and various monsters, and therefore often takes part in creating creatures of darkness for horror films and fantastic films.
Famous works
He gained great fame thanks to his work in such films as “Sin City”, “Predators” and “Land of the Dead”. He also took part in the creation of makeup in the series The Walking Dead and The Masters of Horror. During his long career, Greg several times managed to become a laureate of expensive prizes in the field of cinema. He even managed to get BAFTA in 2006 for creating an amazing make-up for one of the fantastic films.
Greg Nicotero Biography
Greg was born in Pittsburgh, which is located in Pennsylvania. As it turned out, the man did not always want to become a make-up artist. The desire came quite unexpectedly after watching the movie "Jaws", which was created back in 1975.
In cinema, Greg Nicotero began to work not as a master, but as a journeyman of a specialist in special effects. At that time, the fellow countryman Nicotero, whose name is Tom Savini, actively worked on their creation. It was he who then took the young boy into his students, seeing in him a huge potential and a desire to develop in this direction. Then they actively worked together on the film "Day of the Dead", filmed in 1985.
It is noteworthy that in this film Greg even got a small secondary role. He played Private Johnson. When Nicotero worked on this film, he managed to meet Howard Berger. It was this man who later became his active assistant and business partner in the creation of a company engaged in the development of special effects. They called their company KNB EFX Group. Later, Robert Kurtzman became another business partner of the makeup artist. Currently, it is reliably known that the company was involved in the creation of more than 400 films and also has several prestigious awards.
Film work
Everyone knows that for films, Greg Nicotero creates high-quality makeup. Since 2010, the main focus of Greg's work has been the creation of images of the living dead in the multi-part project The Walking Dead. For this series, he also acted as an executive producer. In addition, it was Greg Nicotero who directed several episodes for the popular project.
Since 2015, he began to work on the staff of the team working on the creation of the series “Fear the Walking Dead”. Today, the monsters that appeared thanks to the professionalism of Greg Nicotero can not be counted. Although most of them turned out to be dead, however, there were many other bad creatures that probably only awed some spectators with their terrible appearance. Nicotero knows exactly how to create the most terrible image, and regularly proves it time after time, taking part in the filming of horror films and science fiction films.