Irish makeup artist Michèle Burke, who was the first woman to win an Oscar for her craft, has died aged 75.
Burke, who worked on Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire and Cyrano de Bergerac, became the first woman to win a Best Makeup Oscar, alongside Sarah Monzani, in 1983 for Jean-Jacques Annaud's prehistoric drama, Quest for Fire (La Guerre du Feu).
In 1993, she won a second Oscar, sharing the award with Greg Cannom and Matthew W. Mungle for their work on Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
She was also an Oscar nominee for her work on The Clan of the Cave Bear, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Cell.
She won British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards for Quest for Fire and Cyrano de Bergerac.
Born in Dublin, Burke emigrated to Canada during the late 1970s, where she began carving out her career as a makeup artist.
Burke amassed more than 50 feature film and TV credits across her career and had a longstanding working relationship with Tom Cruise, which began when she created his vampire look for the role of Lestat de Lioncourt in Neil Jordan's film Interview with the Vampire.
She would go on to work with the Hollywood star on Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky, Minority Report, Mission: Impossible III, Tropic Thunder, Knight and Day, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Rock of Ages and Oblivion.
She also worked with Sharon Stone (Gloria), Penélope Cruz (Vanilla Sky) and Brad Pitt (Interview with the Vampire), among many stars.
Burke was also honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the ninth annual Make-Up & Hairstylists Guild Awards in the US in 2022.
