Known for Costume & Make-Up
Heba Thorisdottir is an Iceland-born makeup artist and department head based in Los Angeles. She relocated from Iceland to Los Angeles around two decades ago to pursue a career in makeup artistry. In her early days in Hollywood, she worked in very humble roles such as craft service and production assistant on music video sets, while slowly transitioning into makeup work for major artists like R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Sting. Over time, she established a reputation for versatility across various platforms, including red carpet looks, commercial campaigns, fashion editorials, and film work. Thorisdottir has become a frequent collaborator with director Quentin Tarantino, heading makeup departments on films such as Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012), and The Hateful Eight (2015). In Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), she led the makeup team and was even cast in a cameo role as “Sonya.” Her approach often emphasises realism and subtle transformation rather than relying on heavy prosthetics or digital effects. Throughout her career, she has received numerous award nominations and honours. For The Hateful Eight (2015), she was a 2016 Saturn Award nominee (shared with Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger) for Best Make-Up. Her work on The Suicide Squad (2021) earned her a 2022 Saturn Award nomination (shared with Greg Funk and Brian Sipe) for Best Make-Up. She was also nominated for a 2022 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award (shared with Greg Funk, Sabrina Wilson, and Jillian Erickson) for Best Contemporary Makeup for The Suicide Squad. More recently, for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), she received a 2020 Hollywood Guild nomination (shared with Greg Funk) for Best Period and/or Character Makeup. For Babylon (2022), she was nominated in 2023 by the Hollywood Guild (shared with Shaunna Chavez, Jean Ann Black, and Mandy Artusato) for Best Period/Character Makeup, and by various critics’ and film bodies such as the Online Film & Television Association, the North Carolina Film Critics Association, and the Hawaii Film Critics Society. She also won a Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Award in 2023 (shared with Mary Zophres and Jaime Leigh McIntosh) for Best Costume & Makeup for Babylon.
Birthplace
Reykjavik, Iceland
Filmography
63 films, 8 shows


One Battle After Another
2025 · 2h 42m
country: United States
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.


Wolfs
2024 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected counterpart.


May December
2023 · 1h 57m
country: United States
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.


Babylon
2022 · 3h 9m
country: United States
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.


Don't Worry Darling
2022 · 2h 3m
country: United States
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.


The Suicide Squad
2021 · 2h 12m
country: United States
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.


Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019 · 2h 42m
country: China
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…


Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019 · 2h 9m
country: United States
Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.


Captain Marvel
2019 · 2h 4m
country: United States
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very dangerous rescue mission.


Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 · 2h 13m
country: United States
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.


Song to Song
2017 · 2h 9m
country: United States
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.


Why Him?
2016 · 1h 51m
country: United States
A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.


The Hateful Eight
2015 · 3h 8m
country: United States
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.


Ant-Man
2015 · 1h 57m
country: United States
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.


Wish I Was Here
2014 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.


Django Unchained
2012 · 2h 45m
country: United States
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.


We Bought a Zoo
2011 · 2h 4m
country: United States
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.


Bridesmaids
2011 · 2h 5m
country: United States
Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she’ll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you’ll go for someone you love.


Inglourious Basterds
2009 · 2h 33m
country: Germany
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.


The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 · 2h 46m
country: United States
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.


Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · 2h 16m
country: United States
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.


Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 · 1h 51m
country: United States
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.