Peter Swords King
Profile info
Known forCostume & Make-Up
GenderMale
Birthday1 January 1955 (71 years old)
Place of birthUK
Known credits36
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 a…
Supergirl
2026 · Makeup Designer
Supergirl
2026 · Hair Designer
Superman
2025 · Hair Designer
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · Hair Designer
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · Makeup Designer
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 · Hair Designer
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 · Makeup Designer
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017 · Hair Designer
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017 · Makeup Designer
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016 · Hair Designer
Into the Woods
2014 · Hair Designer
Into the Woods
2014 · Makeup Designer
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Makeup Designer
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Hair Designer
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 · Makeup Designer
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 · Hair Designer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Hair Designer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Makeup Designer
Love & Other Drugs
2010 · Makeup Artist
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010 · Hair Designer
Nine
2009 · Makeup & Hair
The Golden Compass
2007 · Makeup Designer
The Golden Compass
2007 · Hair Designer
Youth Without Youth
2007 · Makeup & Hair
I'm Not There
2007 · Hair Designer
I'm Not There
2007 · Makeup Designer
King Kong
2005 · Hair Designer
King Kong
2005 · Makeup Designer
Nanny McPhee
2005 · Makeup Artist
Beyond the Sea
2004 · Makeup Designer
Beyond the Sea
2004 · Hair Designer
Thunderbirds
2004 · Makeup Artist
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Hair Designer
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Makeup Designer
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 · Makeup Designer
The Importance of Being Earnest
2002 · Makeup & Hair
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Makeup Designer
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Hair Designer
Quills
2000 · Hair Designer
Quills
2000 · Makeup Designer
An Ideal Husband
1999 · Makeup Designer
Little Voice
1998 · Makeup Artist
Little Voice
1998 · Hairstylist
Talk of Angels
1998 · Hair Designer
Talk of Angels
1998 · Makeup Designer
Velvet Goldmine
1998 · Cecil's Friend 2
Velvet Goldmine
1998 · Makeup Designer
Velvet Goldmine
1998 · Hair Designer
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