Charles E. Porlier Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

-winning makeup artist and makeup effects teacher-lecturer.

Charles Porlier was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and started his career as a child-puppeteer, inspired by, then meeting and learning from Jim Henson

Jim Henson

James Maury "Jim" Henson was an American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for...

 of the Muppets. After a brief period spent practicing stage magic, Charles turned to makeup artistry for films and television.

In 1995, Charles Porlier, Kevin Haney, and Patricia Green

Patricia Green

Patricia Green is an American television producer and writer.-Career:Green worked as a writer and producer on Cagney & Lacey and won two Emmy Awards for her work on the series. The first was in 1985 for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The second was in 1986 for Outstanding Drama Series. She...

 won an Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries or Special' for Kissinger and Nixon starring Beau Bridges

Beau Bridges

Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III is an American actor and director.- Early life :Bridges was born in Los Angeles, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his college sweetheart, Dorothy Bridges . He was nicknamed "Beau" by his mother and father after Ashley Wilkes's son in Gone with the Wind, the book...

 and Ron Silver

Ron Silver

Ronald Arthur "Ron" Silver was an American actor, director, producer, radio host and political activist.-Early life:...

, but no statue was awarded due to an incorrect screen credit.

In 2000, Porlier, Tom Woodruff, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940430/ Alec Gillis, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319266/ and Jeff Dawn were nominated for a Saturn Award http://www.saturnawards.org/ (Science Fiction Academy) for best makeup for the Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....

 film The 6th Day

The 6th Day

The 6th Day is a 2000 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as family man Adam Gibson, who is cloned against his will in the future of 2015...

.

In 2003, Porlier was nominated twice for an Emmy Award in the same category, 'Outstanding makeup for a Miniseries or Special' for the television film Door to Door

Door to Door (film)

Door to Door was a 2002 TV movie about Bill Porter , a door-to-door salesman with cerebral palsy. The film was produced for the TNT cable network and was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards, winning six...

, starring William H. Macy

William H. Macy

William Hall Macy, Jr. is an American actor and writer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo. He is also a teacher and director in theater, film and television. His film career has been built mostly on his appearances in small, independent films, though...

, and the television miniseries Taken http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289830/. Porlier, along with Matthew W. Mungle and Jayne Dancose  won the award for 'Door to Door.
In 2003, Porlier was nominated for a CNoMA Award for The Santa Clause 2

The Santa Clause 2

The Santa Clause 2 is a 2002 American comedy film and the sequel to the 1994 film, The Santa Clause. All the principal actors from the first film reprise their roles, except for Peter Boyle, who returns portraying a different minor character...

, but won the CNoMA for Door to Door.

Personal

Married in 1992 to Bernadette M. Peter (born 1960 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canada

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). Two children: Sebastien and Brielle, born in Vancouver BC.

Charles Porlier lives near Vancouver and is the head of The Makeup Design Program at Vancouver Film School.