NICK DUDMAN (Special Make-up Effects) and his team have created the make-up effects and the magical animatronic creatures in all of the Harry Potter films. He earned BAFTA Award nominations for the first four films and, more recently, a BAFTA Award nomination for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.” He became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2006.

Dudman got his start working on the Jedi master Yoda as a trainee to famed British make-up artist Stuart Freeborn, on “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.” After apprenticing with Freeborn for four years, he was asked to head up the English make-up laboratory for Ridley Scott’s “Legend.” He subsequently worked on the make-up and prosthetics for “Mona Lisa,” “Labyrinth,” “Willow,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” “Batman,” “Alien3” and “Interview with the Vampire,” among others.

In 1995, Dudman’s career path widened into animatronics and large-scale creature effects when he was asked to oversee the 55-man creature department for the Luc Besson film “The Fifth Element,” for which he won a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects. Since then, he has lead the creatures/make-up effects departments on several blockbusters, including “Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace,” “The Mummy” and “The Mummy Returns,” and consulted on the prosthetics and costume effects for “Batman Begins.”

In 2007, the Canadian Academy awarded him a special achievement Genie for the make-up on “Beowulf & Grendel.”

Dudman’s company, Pigs Might Fly Ltd., creates and sells non-staining blood.