B i o g r a p h y

Frances Hounsom is an Emmy award-winning, three time Emmy nominated make-up, hair, wig and prosthetic designer. 

 

Her latest projects include Black Bag (Steven Soderberg - 2024), The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Sky 2024) Black Mirror (2023) and Magic Mike (Steven Soderberg 2023)

 

In 2021, Hounsom received an Emmy award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Drama or Daytime Fiction Program for her work on the medieval Netflix series The Letter for the King (2021). She also received an additional two Emmy nominations for Outstanding make-up for a Drama Fiction Program & Outstanding prosthetic design.

 

She is best known for her work on, After Life (Netflix 2020), Down Cemetery Road (Apple 2024) and Sonic 3 - personal hair and makeup artist to Jim Carey (2024) and prides herself on her meticulous attention to detail and intense character development. As an artist she sketches her own designs working very closely with directors and actors defining the intricate details of all makeup and hair design.

 

Hounsom specializes in all realms of hair and makeup, prosthetics, creative hair styling, tattoo work, wig and facial hair making and application. After studying fine art at Central St Martins, she became her own concept artist. She learned and developed skills such as cutting and colouring all hair types and trained heavily in protective hairstyles including braiding, locs, wefts, hair extensions, wig work, knotless braids, hair treatments, and the importance of nutrition and scalp health, while studying a prosthetics and makeup degree at The London College of Fashion.

 

She is fluent in Spanish, Italian and French and has earned diplomas in photography, writing, nutrition, cognitive behavioural therapy, criminology, massage, dermatology and Ayurvedic medicine. 

 

Frances is based in the UK and New York and is represented by UTA.