#114: Claire Anne Williams, Hair & Make-Up Designer

Best Girl Grip

My guest this week is Make-up and Hair Designer Claire Anne Williams.

Claire left a career as a legal secretary to train at the Delamar Academy before being accepted onto a ScreenSkills traineeship where she worked on big-budget productions such as Solo: A Star Wars Story and Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil.

After working on shorts, commercials and music promos, Claire received her first head of department credit working on Neil Maskell’s Klokkenluider and recently worked as Make-Up and Hair Crowd Supervisor on The Kitchen, co-written and produced by Daniel Kaluuya.

In 2021 Claire was recognised as a ScreenDaily Star of Tomorrow and she is represented by Lucy Price at Loop Talent.

We talk about quitting a satisfying career to pursue her dreams, the hardships of being a trainee later in life, the benefits of having an agent, how she creates a sanctuary for actors, as well as going into the craft of creating things like sweat and wounds and keeping spray tan consistent across weeks of shooting.

Claire was a really fun interviewee and it was great to expand my own understanding of how myriad make-up designing can be. It’s not just about eyeliner and lipstick.

This episode 114 of Best Girl Grip.