The Importance of Oscar's Make-up

Irish Voice, August, 1994 by John Paul Tabnsey

John Paul Tabnsey Irish Voice 08-09-1994 The Importance of Oscar's Make-up. MICHELE Burke, Ireland's only two times Oscar winner, has just completed nearly five months working as chief make-up supervisor on Neil Jordan's upcoming film, Interview With the Vampire. At her home in Burbank, California., the morning paper has yet to arrive and already it's 75 degrees outside.

Michele sips tea before a morning horse ride into the hills around Hollywood, a climb paralleled by Burke's own rise to the top of Tinseltown. The second oldest of a family of ten, Burke was born in kildare, where her father Frank ran the betting tote at the local racetrack. After attending school at Mt. Anville, in Dublin, she left to study at the University of Madrid and seemed destined to make...