Peter Owen has been making wigs since the 1980s. He has made wigs for the stars of more than seventy films, including Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow, and Nicole Kidman in The Others. One of his biggest jobs so far has been designing the hair and make-up for the three Lord of the Rings films. He had just six weeks to design and make more than a hundred wigs, each one a different style, colour, shape and length.
The hair and make-up in a film are just as important as the costumes or the sets. Over the years, Peter has made actors look older, healthy and sick. For one film he even made a female actor look like a man! 'What people don't realise about wigs is that we are not always making people more beautiful,'he says.'Often we are coverig up beauty and making them look ordinary.'