Prosthetic makeup artist Johnny Murphy (The Pope’s Exorcist, Vikings) and his colleagues have received a Creative Emmy award for their work on HBO series The Last of Us.
Johnny Murphy is a former student of Moate Business College and The Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology (IADT). Murphy and his prosthetic makeup team received the Creative Emmy award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup at the Peacock Arts Theatre in Los Angeles for their work on The Last of Us.
HBO series The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal (Gladiator 2) and Bella Ramsey (Catherine Called Birdy), is set after a global pandemic destroys civilization, following a hardened survivor (Pascal) who takes charge of a 14-year-old girl (Ramsey) who may be humanity's last hope.
Murphy has worked in the makeup department on other well-known television series such as Vikings and Penny Dreadful. His most recent credits as a prosthetic makeup artist are The Pope's Exorcist starring Russell Crowe, which was filmed in Ireland last year, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season two, starring Ciarán Hinds.
The full team of prosthetic makeup artists that received the Creative Emmy award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup are as follows:
- Johnny Murphy, Key Prosthetics Makeup Artist
- Barrie Gower, Prosthetics Designer
- Sarah Gower, Prosthetics Makeup Co-Department Head
- Paul Spateri, Key Prosthetics Makeup Artist
- Nelly Guimaras Sanjuan, Key Prosthetics Makeup Artist
- Joel Hall, Key Prosthetics Makeup Artist
- Lucy Pittard, Key Prosthetics Makeup Artist
