Peter Swords King

Personal Info

Know For

Costume & Make-Up

Gender

Male

Birthday

1955-01-01 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

UK

Peter Swords King

Biography

Peter King (born 1955), also known as Peter Swords King, is a British Oscar-winning makeup artist who won the 2003 Academy Awards for Best Makeup for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. He shared the award with filmmaker Richard Taylor. He was nominated again at the 2012 Academy Awards for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Besides bringing movie characters to life by way of make-up and hairstyling, King, for the 13 dwarves in the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, had to work on 1,000 drawings before finalising down to a single image. "We make the prosthetics, wigs, beards and then do a show-and-tell for each character in t...

Acting

1998

Velvet Goldmine

as Cecil's Friend 2

Production

1998

The Avengers

as Makeup Artist

1999

An Ideal Husband

as Makeup Designer

1998

Velvet Goldmine

as Makeup Designer

1998

Little Voice

as Hairstylist

1998

Little Voice

as Makeup Artist

1982

1982

2010

Love & Other Drugs

as Makeup Artist

2012

2014

Into the Woods

as Makeup Designer

2005

King Kong

as Hair Designer

2014

Into the Woods

as Hair Designer

2005

King Kong

as Makeup Designer

1995

Innocent Lies

as Makeup Artist

2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

as Hair Designer

2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

as Makeup Designer

2000

Quills

as Makeup Designer

2000

Quills

as Hair Designer

1997

The Tango Lesson

as Wigmaker

2010

1996

The Portrait of a Lady

as Makeup Artist

2009

Nine

as Makeup & Hair

1998

Talk of Angels

as Makeup Designer

1998

Talk of Angels

as Hair Designer

2004

Beyond the Sea

as Makeup Designer

2004

Beyond the Sea

as Hair Designer

2020

Roald Dahl's The Witches

as Hair Designer

2020

Roald Dahl's The Witches

as Makeup Designer

2007

The Golden Compass

as Makeup Designer

2007

The Golden Compass

as Hair Designer

2005

Nanny McPhee

as Makeup Artist

1997

FairyTale: A True Story

as Makeup Artist

1997

2007

Youth Without Youth

as Makeup & Hair

2025

Superman

as Hair Designer

2004

Thunderbirds

as Makeup Artist

2007

I'm Not There

as Hair Designer

2007

I'm Not There

as Makeup Designer

2026

Supergirl

as Makeup Designer

2026

Supergirl

as Hair Designer

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