Kate Biscoe

Kate Morgan Biscoe is an American make-up artist. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Vice.

She was born in New York City to Jean Sargent Morgan and David M. Morgan, and has two sons. She attended McGill University beginning in 1988, but left in 1992 without completing her degree. Biscoe moved to Los Angeles in 1995.

She returned to McGill to study French language and literature, graduating in 2016. She has an interest in Haitian literature.

Film work She started her career as a hair stylist on Sling Blade. Following that, Biscoe worked as the make-up artist on Arresting Gena. She worked on Bedazzled in 2000, for which she was nominated for the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Award for Best Contemporary Make-Up in a Feature-Length Motion Picture alongside Cheri Minns and Ben Nye, Jr. She received another nomination for the same award for her work on Zoolander, alongside Naomi Donne and Michael Laudati. Biscoe and Donne won the MUAHS Guild Award for Best Period and/or Character Make-Up in a Feature-Length Motion Picture for their work in The Royal Tenenbaums.

In 2002, Biscoe was the personal make-up artist for Lisa Kudrow on Analyze That. She was the key make-up, and personal artist for Beyoncé on Austin Powers in Goldmember. She worked as a member of the make-up department on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in 2003. She was the head of the make-up department on Meet the Fockers in 2004.

Biscoe was nominated for the Gold Derby Award for Best Make-Up and Hair for her work on Memoirs of a Geisha, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair in 2006.

She handled the make-up for Factory Girl in 2006, and for the films Tell-Tale and A Single Man in 2009. In 2012, Biscoe headed the make-up department for The Master. She also did the make-up artistry on Argo.

She was the head of the make-up department for the television film Behind the Candelabra. Biscoe and Deborah Rutherford were nominated for the MUAHS Guild Award for Best Period and/or Character Make-Up in a Television Series, Television Limited or Miniseries or Television New Media Series in 2014. The pair also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries or a Movie (Non-Prosthetic) alongside Deborah La Mia Denaver, Chrissie Beveridge, and Todd Kleitsch at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Alongside Christine Beveridge, , Jamie Kelman, Stephen Kelley, Todd Kleitsch, and Christien Tinsley, Biscoe won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special also at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Biscoe and Marie Larkin were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair in 2014 as well.

Biscoe was the head of the make-up department on for Gone Girl. For her work on the film, she was nominated for the 2015 MUAHS Guild Award for Best Contemporary Make-Up in a Feature-Length Motion Picture again, alongside Gigi Williams.

Biscoe worked on make-up for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016 and Justice League in 2017.

Biscoe was the make-up department head on Vice, responsible for 130 members of the cast. The department consisted of 17 additional artists. For her work on the film, she won the MUAHS Guild Award for Best Contemporary Make-Up in a Feature-Length Motion Picture again in 2019, alongside Ann Pala Williams and Jamie Kelman. Biscoe, Greg Cannom, and Patricia Dehaney won both the Gold Derby Award for Best Make-Up and Hair, and the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. The trio were nominated for the Gold Derby Film Decade Awards for the 2010s.

Biscoe, Cannom, Dehaney, and Chris Gallaher were also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair in 2019, as well as the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Best Hair and Make-Up Award. Biscoe was co-nominated for the Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle for Best Costume Design and Make-Up alongside Susan Matheson, Biscoe for Make-Up and Matheson for costumes.

She headed the make-up department on Godzilla vs. Kong in 2020.

Television series work On the miniseries Sharp Objects, Biscoe worked as the personal make-up artist to Amy Adams. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) alongside Michelle Radow, Karen Rentrop, and Eric Rosenmann for their work on the show.

Biscoe was the head of the make-up department on the television miniseries Angelyne, and was nominated alongside Vincent Van Dyke, Mike Mekash, and Abby Lyle Clawson for the MUAHS Guild Award for Best Special Makeup Effects in Television, Limited/Miniseries, or New Media Series. They, along with Chris Burgoyne, were also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for their work on the Angelyne episode "Glow In The Dark Queen Of The Universe".

She was also the head of the make-up department on the horror drama series Grotesquerie, and along with Victor Del Castillo, Naima Jamal, and Tierra Richards, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) for the episode "Unplugged". The quartet was also nominated for the MUAHS Guild's Best Contemporary Make-Up, TV Series, TV Limited or Miniseries, TV New Media award.

Her work on the television series All's Fair resulted in a nomination for Outstanding Make-up (TV or Film) at the 57th NAACP Image Awards.

Selected credits Film

Television series