Costume & Make-Up

Tony Gardner

Born September 25, 1965 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA (age 61)

Tony Gardner is an American makeup designer, special effects designer and puppeteer. He has designed and created effects for many feature films, including the films Zombieland, 127 Hours, Smokin' Aces, Hairspray, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, The Addams Family, Seed of Chucky, Shallow Hal and There's Something About Mary. Gardner helped create the signature helmets for Daft Punk, as well as an an…

Known For

Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons · 2009

Angels & Demons

MovieThrillerMystery

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

Scary Movie 2

Scary Movie 2 · 2001

A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.

Me, Myself & Irene

Me, Myself & Irene · 2000

Me, Myself & Irene

Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.

Hocus Pocus 2

Hocus Pocus 2 · 2022

MovieFantasyComedy

29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.

Curse of Chucky

Curse of Chucky · 2013

Curse of Chucky

MovieHorrorThriller

After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.

Old

MovieThrillerMystery

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Hairspray

Hairspray · 2007

MovieComedyRomance

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.

Freaky

MovieHorrorComedy

A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.

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Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons · 2009

Angels & Demons

MovieThrillerMystery

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

Prosthetic Makeup Artist

Scary Movie 2

Scary Movie 2 · 2001

A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.

Makeup Designer

Me, Myself & Irene

Me, Myself & Irene · 2000

Me, Myself & Irene

Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.

Makeup Effects Designer

Hocus Pocus 2

Hocus Pocus 2 · 2022

MovieFantasyComedy

29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.

Makeup Effects

Curse of Chucky

Curse of Chucky · 2013

Curse of Chucky

MovieHorrorThriller

After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.

Puppeteer

Old

MovieThrillerMystery

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Makeup Effects Designer

Hairspray

Hairspray · 2007

MovieComedyRomance

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.

Makeup Effects

Freaky

MovieHorrorComedy

A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.

Makeup Effects Designer

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys · 1987

MovieHorrorComedy

When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.

Special Effects

Seed of Chucky

Seed of Chucky · 2004

MovieHorrorComedy

This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Cheaper by the Dozen 2 · 2005

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

MovieComedyFamily

The Baker family, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children.

Makeup Designer

There's Something About Mary

There's Something About Mary · 1998

There's Something About Mary

MovieRomanceComedy

For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.

Animatronics Designer

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls · 1995

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

MovieCrimeComedy

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects

Jackass: Best and Last

Jackass: Best and Last · 2026

Jackass: Best and Last

MovieActionComedy

The fifth and final installment to Jackass franchise where the crew go on one last insane crusade.

Makeup Effects Designer

Army of Darkness

Army of Darkness · 1992

Army of Darkness

MovieFantasyHorror

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Shallow Hal

Shallow Hal · 2001

MovieComedyFantasy

After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.

Makeup Effects Designer

127 Hours

127 Hours · 2010

MovieAdventureDrama

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

Makeup Effects Designer

Batman & Robin

Batman & Robin · 1997

MovieActionScience Fiction

Batman and his sidekick Robin attempt to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze, who wants to make Gotham City into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy, a botanical femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contend with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl, joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.

Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse · 2015

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

MovieComedyHorror

Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.

Special Effects Key Makeup Artist

Tank Girl

Tank Girl · 1995

MovieActionComedy

After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee, head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government, has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee's tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl and Jet Girl rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.

Costume Design

The Watch

The Watch · 2012

MovieComedyAction

Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood – and the world – from total extermination.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Jackass Forever

Jackass Forever · 2022

Jackass Forever

MovieActionComedy

The Jackass crew, along with some newcomers, returns for one more round of hilarious, absurd, and dangerous stunts.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa · 2013

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Rivals of Amziah King

The Rivals of Amziah King · 2026

The Rivals of Amziah King

MovieCrimeDrama

Deep within the backwoods of rural Oklahoma, charismatic and musically gifted Amziah King herds a bluegrass-playing band of misfits while overseeing the premier honey-making operation in town. When Amziah’s estranged foster daughter unexpectedly returns, Amziah leaps at the possibility to renew connection and create a family business. But the honey game is ruthless, and Amziah’s rivals threaten to destroy everything he has built.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Chucky

SeriesCrimeComedy

After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins.

Associate Producer