| Irene Napier | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Irene Marquis Brownlie |
| Born | October 1 1953  Glasgow, Scotland |
| Occupation | Make-up artist |
Irene Napier is a film and television make-up designer from Scotland. She trained in hairdressing at the Central College of Commerce, qualifying in 1974. Later that year she joined Scottish Television as a trainee make-up artist. She remained there for 13 years and gained the position of make-up designer before leaving in 1987 to become freelance. While at STV she worked on news, entertainment, current affairs and drama programmes including Garnet Way, House on the Hill, Taggart and Take the High Road. She was make-up designer on the feature film version of Jimmy Boyle's autobiography A Sense of Freedom. In the early years of her freelance career, Irene specialised in high-profile TV drama and low-budget films, notably Tickets for the Zoo, A Life of Stuff, Regeneration, Taggart, Finney, Cardiac Arrest (written by Jed Mercurio, writer of BBC3's Bodies) and the television adaption of Iain Banks' bestselling Crow Road. In the mid 1990s Irene began working in London on larger-scale television drama, most notably as make-up designer on the BBC's flagship hospital soap, Holby City. She was also designer on Down to Earth, The Inspector Linley Mysteries, ITV's highly successful Bad Girls and the BBC's 2007 summer drama Jekyll. During this time she periodically returned to Scotland in order to spend more time at home while working on Quite Ugly One Morning, 2000 Acres of Sky and the hugely popular Monarch of the Glen. In 2000 Irene received a Scottish BAFTA award for outstanding achievement in her field.
