Makeup Artist, Michele Burke is one of the most versatile talents working worldwide today.  The recipient of numerous professional awards, Michele is the winner of Two Oscars for Best Makeup, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Quest for Fire, and has been nominated a total of six times. Michele has also twice won the British Academy Award (B.A.F.T.A.) for Makeup in Cyrano de Bergerac and Quest for Fire.

Michele's impressive movie resume includes some of the top films -- and stars -- of the last few years. Most recently she designed the makeup for Tom Cruise, Keri Russell and Michelle Monaghan in
Mission Impossible III. She also designed the make-up for Renee  Zellwegger and Kelly Preston in Jerry Maguire and for Jennifer Lopez and Vincent D'Onofrio and other characters in The Cell.

Other movie highlights include: Mission Impossible III, Monster House, Elizabethtown, Spanglish, Minority Report, As Good As It Gets, Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Interview With The Vampire. She was the Makeup Supervisor on Austin Powers 3: Goldmember.

Michele has never been one to limit herself.  She's accomplished in all areas of makeup: design and application, beauty and fashion spreads for print media as well as her signature character, prosthetic, fantasy and period work in feature films and television.

A native of Dublin, Ireland, Michele emigrated to Canada and started her make-up career after working as a model and producing fashion shows. Realizing that her heart was in film rather than fashion, she offered herself as a make-up apprentice on three films. Michele currently resides in California.