Gretchen Davis

Gretchen Davis resides in San Francisco California working as a free lance Make-up Artist for the entertainment industry. She is highly sought after to work with high profile clients as a personal or department head in film, television, and digital media. Gretchen has Department Headed films like, Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, HBO's Looking, Steve Jobs, Hulu's Chance Hemingway and Gellhorn,Mavericks and worked as Key Makeup for Films such as Milk, and NBC's Trauma. In 2012 Gretchen was nominated for an Emmy highlighting her work on Hemingway and Gellhorn. She has headed projects for Sony, Paramount, Disney, DreamWorks, Universal, Electronic Arts, Pixar, and ILM to name a few. She is a member of I.A.T.S.E. Local 706, Makeup Artists and Hairstylists, Hollywood, and is licensed in Esthetics in the state of California. As an Instructor, she creatively designed a Makeup program for The Academy of Art University, in San Francisco. The program exposes beginning Film Students and future Makeup Artists to professional work Standards in all media and Industry Techniques. Today she continues to enjoy a successful career as a Free Lance Makeup Artist, Instructor, and writer.