Doug Drexler, born in New York City

New York City

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, is a visual effects artist, designer, sculptor, illustrator, and an academy award-winning makeup artist who has collaborated with such talents as Al Pacino

Al Pacino

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared...

, Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters....

, James Caan, Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...

, and Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has received a total of fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning one for Best Director in 1982. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards including the Cecil B. DeMille Award.-Early life and...

. He began his career in the entertainment industry working for makeup legend Dick Smith on such films as The Hunger and Starman

Starman (film)

John Carpenter's Starman is a 1984 science-fiction fantasy film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of an alien who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.The screenplay was written by Bruce A. Evans,...

. He has also contributed to Three Men and a Little Lady, The Cotton Club, FX, Manhunter and Dick Tracy. Dick Tracy earned Drexler an Oscar, as well as The British Academy Award and the Saturn Award for his special makeup effects on characters such as Big Boy Caprice (played by Pacino) and Mumbles (played by Hoffman). Two Emmy nominations in the same field followed for three years working on Star Trek: The Next Generation, where he performed such tasks as aging Captain Picard for "The Inner Light".

In 1992 Drexler made a career change by moving over to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as designer, digital artist and effects artist. He continued in that capacity on the subsequent Star Trek films as well as Star Trek: Voyager. In April 2001 Drexler worked as senior Illustrator and CGI designer on the fifth Star Trek series, Enterprise. Following Enterprise, Doug was hired by renowned Visual Effects Supervisor Gary Hutzel as CG Supervisor on Battlestar Galactica. Doug won two Emmy Awards and a Visual Effects Society Award for Galactica.

Doug grew up on Long Island

Long Island

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 and attended Newfield High School

Newfield High School

Newfield High School is a public high school in Selden, New York, which is located in Suffolk County, Long Island in the United States. It is located 1 mile north of Middle Country Road on Marshall Drive.-History and Overview:...

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Prosthetic character makeup

1982 The Hunger
1983 The Cotton Club
1984 Starman
1985 FX
1985 Heartburn
1985 Manhunter
1986 Making Mr. Right
1987 Poltergeist III
1988 Liberace
1988 Dick Tracy
1990 Three Men and a Little Lady
1990 True Identity
1991 For the Boys
1990-1993 Star Trek: The Next Generation

Design

1993-1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1994 Star Trek Generations
1996 Star Trek First Contact
1998 Star Trek Insurrection
1998 Buckaroo Banzai: Ancient Secrets and New Mysteries (unproduced TV series)
2001-2004 Star Trek: Enterprise

Visual effects

1999 Starship Troopers
1999-00 Star Trek: Voyager
2000 Max Steel
2000 Star Trek: The Motion Picture -Director's Edition
2001 Dan Dare
2001-2004 Star Trek: Enterprise
2004-2009 Battlestar Galactica
2009 Caprica

Books illustrated

The Star Trek Encyclopedia by Michael and Denise Okuda. Simon and Schuster, publisher.
Star Trek Science Logs by Andre Bormanis. Simon and Schuster, publisher.
Designing the Future by Jacque Fresco. The Venus Project, Inc., publisher.

Books illustrated and co-authored

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual by Herman Zimmerman, Rick Sternbach, and Doug Drexler. Simon and Schuster, publisher.
Star Trek Sticker Book by Michael and Denise Okuda, and Doug Drexler. Simon and Schuster, publisher.
2001-2011 Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendar Editor and contributing artist. Simon and Schuster, publisher.

Interactive CD-ROMs

Star Trek: Captain's Chair, Simon and Schuster Interactive.
The Star Trek Interactive Encyclopedia, Simon and Schuster Interactive.

External links

• The Drex Files - Doug Drexler's weblog
• http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/ENT/creative/103325.html
• http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Doug_Drexler