Jo Adams |Makeup & Hair Designer

Jo has over 30 years of experience on a huge variety of projects within film, TV, music videos, editorial and theatre.
She is extremely creative and skilled in all aspects of hair and makeup design with a specialisation in both period and contemporary hair and makeup. She works with all skin and hair types.
Jo has worked on major Hollywood films with some of the biggest names in the industry and is passionate about designing. 
She has worked in the UK and worldwide, and has used her skills and experience to teach others.

TV

TOXIC TOWN Crowd Hair & Makeup Supervisor  
Bone and Broke for Netflix | Directed by Minkie Spiro 
Produced by Delyth Scudamore
VIKINGS Personal Hair Designer
World 2000 Entertainment / History Channel | Directed & Produced by by Simon Winchcombe, Jon Eastman & Rosie Schellenberg 

POLDARK Hair & Make-Up Designer
BBC | Directed by Sallie Aprahamian
Produced by Rebecca Eaton & Michael Ray

THE SANDMAN Crowd Supervisor
Netflix | Directed by Various 
TIN STAR Hair & Make-Up Designer | Personal to Tim Roth & Christina Hendricks 
Kudos Film & Television | Directed by Marc Jobst & Rowan Joffe

TERRY PRATCHETT'S GOING POSTAL  Hair Designer | Personal to David Suchet, Sir Terry Pratchett & Richard Coyle
Sky Films | Directed by Jon Jones 

OUTLANDER Hair & Make-Up | Personal
Tall Ship Productions / Starz! | Created by Ronald D. Moore

WORLDS END Hair & Make-Up Designer
BBC | Created by Danny Spring & Diane Whitley

KOMBAT OPERA  Hair & Make-Up Designer 
ITV | Directed by Dominic Brigstocke, Terry Jones, Peter Orton, Tim Kirkby & Jon Thompson 
Produced by Stephen Abrahams 

JERICHO Hair & Make-Up Supervisor | Personal to Jessica Raine 
ITV | Directed by Robert McKillop, David Moore & Paul Whittington

DIANA AND I 

Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
Directed by Peter Cattaneo
Produced by Karen Lewis

MERLIN

Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
BBC | Directed by Ed Fraimen, James Hawes, Metin Huseyin & Stuart Orme

TOP BUZZER Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
Channel 4 | Directed by Barnaby Southcombe & James Griffiths

BIG TRAIN Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
Channel 4 | Directed by Graham Linehan, Christopher Morris & Jonathan Gershfield
Featuring Simon Pegg & Catherine Tate

INDIAN SUMMER Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
Granada

SPINE CHILLERS Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
Granada

STATION JIM Hair & Make-Up Supervisor 
BBC Films | Directed by John Roberts

MANCHILD Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
BBC

 BLIND AMBITION Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
ITV

FOOTBALLERS WIVES EXTRA TIME Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
Channel 4

HOLLYOAKS Hair and Make-Up Desinger
Channel 4
EMMERDALE Hair and Make-Up Designer
ITV 
     

Feature Films

WONKA Hair & Make-Up Artist
Heyday / Warner Bros. | Directed by Paul King 
Produced by Alexandra Derbyshire, David Heyman, Luke Kelly & Michael Siegel

SAFE Hair & Make-Up Supervisor 
Talent United Film & TV | Directed by Paul Ruven 
Produced by Marian Batavier & Paul Ruven

PAN Hair and Make-Up Artist
Warner Bros. | Directed by Joe Wright
Produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter & Paul Webster
Hair and Makeup Designer Ivana Primorac

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL
Hair and Make-Up Designer
Warner Bros. | Directed by Doug Liman

THE SECOND BEST 
EXOTIC MARIGOLD 
HOTEL
Make-Up Artist | Assistant to European Unit
Babieka | Directed by John Madden
Produced by Graham Broadbent & Peter Czernin
Featuring Dev Patel, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench & Bill Nighy

DEATH DO US PART Make-Up Artist 
Sweet Mate Productions | Directed by Shaub Abdul Miah
Produced by Daniel Audritt, Ricky Boezalt & Shaub Abdul Miah

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Hair & Make-Up | Personal Hair Artist to Rose Byrne & Jennifer Lawrence
20th Century Fox | Directed by Matthew Vaughn

ONE DAY Hair & Make-Up Artist | Personal to Patricia Clarkson & Personal Hair to Anne Hathaway
Film Four | Directed by Lone Scherfig
Produced by Nina Jacobson
Featuring Anne Hathaway & Jim Sturgess

FAT SLAGS  Hair & Make-Up Artist | Hair & Make-Up Supervisor Crowd | Personal Make-Up Artist to Naomi Campbell 
Funny Films | Directed by Ed Bye 
Produced by Charles Finch & Luc Roeg 

DRACULA UNTOLD Hair & Make-Up Artist
Warner Bros | Directed by Gary Shore
Produced by Michael De Luca
Featuring Dominic Cooper & Charles Dance

JACK THE GIANT
KILLER
Hair & Make-Up Artist | Hair & Make-Up Stunts
Warner Bros | Directed by Mark Atkins
Produced by David Michael Latt

SWEENEY TODD  Hair Artist 
Paramount Pictures | Directed by Michael Scorsese
Produced by Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter 

HUGO  Hair Artist | Regular Crowd 
Paramount Pictures | Directed by Michael Scorsese
Produced by Johnny Depp, Tim Headington, Graham King & Martin Scorsese

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME Unit Supervisor | Hair Artist | Hair Stunt Supervisor
Walt Disney | Directed by Mike Newell
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
Featuring Jake Gyllenhaal & Gemma Arteton

THE DUCHESS Hair Artist | Hair Supervisor 2nd Unit
Paramount | Directed by Saul Dibb
Produced by Michael Kuhn & Gabrielle Tana

ROBIN HOOD  Hair Artist 
Universal Pictures | Directed by Ridley Scott 
Produced by Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer & Ridley Scott

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Hair & Make-Up Artist
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp | Directed by Rob Letterman
Produced by John Davis & Gregory Goodman

THE DA VINCI CODE Hair & Make-Up Artist
Columbia Pictures | Directed by Ron Howard
Produced by John Calley, Brian Grazer & Ron Howard
Featuring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou & Ian McKellan

AMAZING GRACE Hair & Make-Up Artist 
Walden Media | Directed by Michael Apted
Featuring Ioan Gruffudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Romola
Garai & Michael Gambon

ENIGMA Hair & Make-Up Artist 
Manhattan Pictures International | Directed by Michael Apted
Produced by Mick Jagger & Lorne Michaels
Featuring Kate Winslet & Matthew Macfayden

KING ARTHUR Hair & Make-Up Artist
Touchstone Pictures | Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
Featuring Keira Knightley, Clive Owen & Ioan Gruffudd

DREAM Additional Make-Up Assistant
Motion Pictures 

JAMES BOND: NO TIME TO DIE Hair & Make-Up | Dailies & Stunts
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
Hair & Makeup Designer Daniel Phillips

1917 Hair & Make-Up | Dailies
Dreamworks Pictures | Directed & Produced by Sam Mendes
Hair & Make-Up Designer Naomi Donne

THE VOYAGE OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE  Hair & Make-Up Artist | Regular Dailies 
Universal Pictures | Directed by Stephen Gaghan 
Produced by Susan Downey, Jeff Kirschenbaum & Joe Roth
Hair and Makeup Designer Daniel Phillips

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD  Hair & Make-Up Artist | Regular Dailies 
Heyday Films | Directed by David Yates 
Produced by David Heyman, Steve Kloves, J.K. Rowling & Lionel Wigram
Hair and Makeup Designer Fae Hammond

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Hair & Make-Up Artist | Regular Dailies 
Sony Pictures | Directed by Jon Watts 
Produced by Kevin Feige & Amy Pascal 
Hair and Makeup Designer Christine Blundell

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT Hair & Make-Up Artist | Regular Dailies 
Paramount Pictures | Dirercted by Christopher McQuarrie 
Produced by J.J. Abrams, Raphaël Benoliel, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie & Jake Myers 
Hair and Makeup Designer Sarah Monzani

ALLIED Hair Artist | Regular Dailies
Paramount Pictures | Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Hair and Makeup Designer Daniel Phillips

1917 Hair and Make-Up Artist
Dreamworks Pictures | Directed by Sam Mendes
Produced by Valerii An & Jeb Brody

Other Credits

OLIVER Wig & Make-Up Supervisor
The London Palladium
Directed by Sam Mendez

PETER PAN, LADY OF
SLIGO, OKLAHOMA,
INVENTION OF LOVE
Wig & Make-Up Supervisor
Royal National Theatre
Sir Ian McKellen, Alan Rickman

TWEFLTH NIGHT Make-Up & Hair Designer
Wimbledon Theatre

MARTIN GUERRE Make-Up & Wig Designer
Yorkshire Playhouse

 

Commercials

YAMAHA Hair & Make-Up Designer
FIAT CARS Hair & Make-Up Designer
HIANDI Hair & Make-Up Designer
YORKSHIRE ELECTRICITY Hair & Make-Up Designer
MONEY MAGPIE Hair & Make-Up Designer

Music Videos

NICKI MINAJ
'The Night Is Still Young'
Hair & Make-Up Designer 
TAKE THAT Hair & Make-Up Designer
COMMUNARDS Hair & Make-Up Designer
MEATLOAF Hair & Make-Up Designer
EAST 17 Hair & Make-Up Designer

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