Five decades of greasepaint, latex and blood

Jeff GoodwinMakeup & Special Effects

Award-winning makeup and special effects makeup artist for film and television. Blue Velvet. The Last of the Mohicans. The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Scream. The Black Phone. Wounds, monsters, mutants and movie stars.

Collage of characters and creatures from Jeff Goodwin's films, with Jeff at the center
Blue Velvet · Rambo III · Track 29 · The Handmaid's Tale · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles · The Last of the Mohicans · Super Mario Bros. · Empire Records · Ride with the Devil · A Walk to Remember · War & Peace · Mr. Mercedes · Scream · The Black Phone · Blue Velvet · Rambo III · Track 29 · The Handmaid's Tale · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles · The Last of the Mohicans · Super Mario Bros. · Empire Records · Ride with the Devil · A Walk to Remember · War & Peace · Mr. Mercedes · Scream · The Black Phone · 
The Black Phone screening with Jeff Goodwin at Hawthorne Theater
Next appearance
Oct 29
Free screening of The Black Phone + Q&A
Hawthorne Theater · Hawthorne, NJ · 7 PM
Jeff Goodwin holding the first copy of Blue Velvet: A Polaroid Diary
40th anniversary · 1986–2026
Blue Velvet
A Polaroid Diary
Never-before-published Polaroids from the set of David Lynch's Blue Velvet, with Jeff's own account. Published by Reel Art Press.
Blue Velvet: A Polaroid Diary by Jeff Goodwin
Masterclass
Blue Velvet, Live
Original on set continuity Polaroids, the story behind "the ear," and a book signing for the 40th anniversary. Now booking.
Jeff laying in a throat wound on set
Jeff applying a wound appliance
Jeff doing makeup on Esther Rolle on location
Jeff at the makeup trailer

Jeff on camera

Interviews, Q&As and press going back five decades.

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