Nick Dudman Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Nick Dudman is a make-up effects and monster designer for feature movies based in the United Kingdom. With his crew, Dudman has worked on the make-up effects and animatronic monsters for the Harry Potter films, earning nominations for BAFTA Awards for six of the eight films in the series. Dudman got his start on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back as a student under the tutelage of renowned British make-up artist Stuart Freeborn, who worked on the Jedi master Yoda. After four years of apprenticeship with Freeborn, Dudman was invited to take over as the director of the English makeup laboratory for Ridley Scott’s Legend. The rest of his career saw him working on the makeup and prosthetics for films such as The Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Alien 3, and Interview with the Vampire, among others. When he was recruited to head the 55-man monster department for the Luc Besson film The Fifth Element in 1995, Dudman’s professional path expanded to include animatronics and large-scale creature effects, for which he received a BAFTA Award for Visual Effects. Since then, he has worked on a number of blockbusters, including Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and Batman Begins, where he was in charge of the monster and make-up effects departments. Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, featured animatronics created by Dudman. In 2007, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presented him with a special accomplishment Genie Award for his work on Beowulf and Grendel, which he accepted.

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