Emily-Jane Sturrock

PA to Workshop Supervisor

From starting in costume departments for television in 1993, Emily realised that her passion was for make-up artistry. After training as a make-up artist, she found it to be more enjoyable to be multi skilled. This gave her the ability to constantly stay within the New Zealand film and television industry, moving between costume and make-up work.

Being multi skilled is a job requirement for working at Weta Workshop and in 1999 she had the good fortune to join Weta, for the preproduction and consequent filming of Lord of the Rings.

Enjoying many years of working as the lead actors' armour and weapons standby and continuity supervisor for Weta's armour department.

For the filming of King Kong Emily returned to the make-up department, also joining the make-up team for the pre-production work on 30 Days of Night and Black Sheep. And the hair punching work for Golden Compass and Lonely Dog

At the end of 2006 Emily retrained again to work in Weta Workshops' Production department.

It seemed like the next step to take, for the past 17 years I have been working in and around film and television sets, from within multiple departments. This has been a way to use all that information within one job""

She has since been involved in such projects as

• Prince Caspian
• Halo shorts (internet release)
• District 9
• Avatar

And has been working as the workshop supervisor Gareth McGhie's P.A for the past 2 years while doing make-up work as required for Weta Workshop.