Craig Lindberg

History

Craig Lindberg is a makeup artist at I.A.T.S.E. Local 798, and the owner-operator of General Mayhem Makeup Studio. He's known for his work on the films "War of the Worlds," "Army of the Dead," "Spiderman 3," and "John Wick: Chapter 3," and on the TV series "Daredevil," "Elementary," "The Tick," and NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Lindberg also worked on the cult horror films, "Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein," "Sleepless Nights" and "There's Nothing Out There." He is the recipient of a 2012 and 2013 Emmy Award nomination for "Boardwalk Empire," and "Saturday Night Live." He has also won Contribution Awards for "Saturday Night Live," and ABC's "The View." Craig is a contributing writer for Makeup Artist Magazine. Craig has been a professional Makeup Instructor for over 10 years.

Profile

Movies

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.

The Intern

Makeup Artist

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Makeup Effects

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

Blood Ties

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

Shame

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

My Soul to Take

Key Makeup Artist

A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.

We Own the Night

Makeup Artist

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

Spider-Man 3

Makeup & Hair

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.

Munich

Makeup Artist

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Sleepless Nights

Makeup Artist

The mortal world is under attack, as master vampire, Lord Malgaard, executes an evil plan to reduce mankind to a race of unwilling blood donors! Leading the war against vampire domination, Dr. Jacob Sloane sacrifices the newest blood in the battle when his assistant, Christian Grey, is bitten by his own wife – Malgaard's most recent convert. Now a fugitive from his own mentor, Grey battles Malgaard's minions from within the underworld of the undead. When he's approached by Sloane's beautiful protege, Kaitlin Moore, he thinks he's found a new ally in his fight, but soon discovers that she's engaged in a life-or-death battle of her own.