Matthew Mungle
“Mungle is descriptive of a found niche that satisfies the artist, fulfills the obligations of the character, and adds a magical ingredient unknowable to all but Mungle. Matthew is not an actor’s creative assistant, he is a full-borne collaborator. I have not worked with half-enough. I could never say with confidence where Richard Fagin and Matthew ended and then created and lived together so comfortably, but it was felt as easy inevitability. I loved being Mungled.”
Academy Award and six time Emmy award winner Matthew W. Mungle is regarded as one of Hollywood's premier make-up special effects artists. With over 200 film and television projects to his credit, Matthew has earned accolades and recognition as one of the industry's top masters of makeup effects illusion.
Matthew's professional career began creating Special Make-up Effects on low-budget projects such as THE DORM THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, THE POWER and THE KINDRED which taught him to think quickly on his feet. He Department Headed several films, WAR PARTY, SPLIT DECISION and NAVY SEALS from 1987 to 1989 but his first major success was on EDWARD SCISSORHANDS in 1990. Twenty-three years later, Matthew has accumulated an impressive list of credits and an equally impressive genre of box office successes including: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, earning him his first Oscar in 1992; SCHINDLER'S LIST, giving him another nomination in 1993; creating Arnold's pregnancy stomach in the comedy spoof JUNIOR; tackling special make-up effects for OUTBREAK, CONGO, PRIMAL FEAR, and aging James Woods to 72 in GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI, which earned him his 3rd Oscar nomination in 1996. his transformation of Glenn Close and Janet McTeer in ALBERT NOBBS earned him his fourth Oscar nomination in 2011. One of Matthew's greatest challenges is with the hit Broadway show WICKED, creating the prosthetic face masks for the production's various characters. Balancing his film and TV projects, Matthew continues his work for the show's Broadway, U.S. tours and Japan productions. In 2018 Matthew began collaborative works with American Realist Painter Adam Scott Rote, both having a love and passion for classic cinema.
