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Barrie Gower is a five-time Emmy-winning prosthetics designer. Gower grew up in the north of England, where his father managed a cinema. As he became a teenager, he became heavily involved in art—mostly drawings and sculpture. Still, in those early days, his mission felt like more “of a pipe dream.” With the support of his mom, Gower applied for art programmes, stumbling upon one promising option at the London College of Fashion. He didn't get into the university in the first year, as he didn't have any evidence of doing any hairstyling or makeup (although he had a portfolio). His mother enrolled him in a hairdressing course, and the following year he was accepted at LCF, where he “managed to meet quite a lot of industry professionals.” Barrie began his career in the film industry in 1996 after graduating from the London College of Fashion with a HND in Specialist Make-up. His first role was at the BBC Visual Effects Department on projects including ‘Red Dwarf’ and ‘Silent Witness’. The following year, Barrie was employed on his first major feature film, Steven Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan'. Barrie has since worked for industry-leading companies and individuals such as Weta Workshop and multi-award winner Rick Baker. Barrie contributed to the Academy Award-winning prosthetics for 'The Wolfman' (2011) and 'The Iron Lady' (2012). After 10 years working in the Harry Potter film world and then freelancing on other large-scale projects, Gower decided to start his own company, BGFX, with his wife, Sarah, also a prosthetics designer. They’d met working on a film in Budapest. At that time, she was part of the CGI visual effects department. BGFX began as an at-home studio but quickly launched into the big leagues when it received its first major opportunity: designing prosthetics for season four of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Thrones was the beginning of a fruitful relationship with HBO, one that has seen the couple spearheading designs for many more of the network’s biggest hits, among them House of the Dragon and The Last of Us. For the former, the job primarily centred around the ageing and decay of Paddy Considine’s character, the doomed king Viserys Targaryen. Simultaneously, BGFX was handling The Last of Us, which Gower is quick to describe as “the biggest thing we’ve ever done.” For that series, the company was tasked with designing and executing a whole world consumed by a fungus, plus the resulting zombie-like creatures that are born out of those spores. They didn’t have to start from scratch, however, relying on the catalogue of work created for the original 2013 video game by developer Naughty Dog.
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Stardust
2007-08-09
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The Nutcracker: The Untold Story
2010-11-24
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011-07-12
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Dom Hemingway
2013-11-14
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The Legend of Tarzan
2016-06-29
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How I Live Now
2013-09-10
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Rocketman
2019-05-17
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Last Night in Soho
2021-10-21
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010-11-17
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The Iron Lady
2011-12-26
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
2022-11-25
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022-05-04
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The Wolfman
2010-02-10
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W.E.
2011-09-01
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
2025-07-23
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Luther: The Fallen Sun
2023-02-24
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Midsommar
2019-07-03
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Death on the Nile
2022-02-09
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The Green Knight
2021-07-29
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Papillon
2017-09-07
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Okja
2017-06-28
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Annihilation
2018-02-22
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A Cure for Wellness
2017-02-15
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Collide
2016-06-10
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Wrath of the Titans
2012-03-28
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Noble
2014-09-19
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Burke & Hare
2010-10-29
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
2013-11-28
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Life of Pi
2012-11-20
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Kick-Ass
2010-03-26
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Hannibal Rising
2007-02-06
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006-09-13
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The Last King of Scotland
2006-01-12
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Land of the Blind
2006-05-01
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AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004-08-12
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Troy
2004-05-13
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Ella Enchanted
2004-04-09
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Shaun of the Dead
2004-04-09
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002-05-15
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Blade II
2002-03-22
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Resident Evil
2002-03-15
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Dust
2001-08-29
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Alice in Wonderland
1999-02-28
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The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon
1997-01-01
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The Matrix Resurrections
2021-12-16
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Spencer
2021-11-04
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Cherry
2021-02-26
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Unknown
2011-02-16
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004-05-31
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Snatch
2000-09-01
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018-07-09
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Jupiter Ascending
2015-02-04
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Patient Zero
2018-09-14
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My Cousin Rachel
2017-06-08
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28 Days Later
2002-10-31
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Dark Shadows
2012-05-09
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The Little Stranger
2018-08-30
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999-05-20
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Chernobyl
2019-05-06
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The Last of Us
2023-01-15
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Game of Thrones
2011-04-17
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Saxondale
2006-06-19
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Britannia
2018-01-18
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House of the Dragon
2022-08-21
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Game of Thrones
2011-04-17
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Little Miss Jocelyn
2006-08-22
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The Frankenstein Chronicles
2015-11-11
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Cranford
2007-11-18
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ShakespeaRe-Told
2005-11-07
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Walking with Cavemen
2003-03-27
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The Great
2020-05-15
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Jason and the Argonauts
2000-05-07
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Small Axe
2020-11-15
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022-09-01
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Underworld
1997-11-04
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The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999-11-07
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Catherine the Great
2019-10-03
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Top Boy
2019-09-13