Education
Lane is a native of Peoria, Illinois, graduated from Woodruff High School, and graduated from Bradley University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Art and emphasis in Graphic Design.
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Tami Lane
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As a college student, she had the opportunity to visit makeup effects company KNB EFX Group in Los Los Angeles After graduation she worked for KNB EFX with part-owner Howard Berger for four years before heading out on her own in 2000. She also worked on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Green Mile, and Superman Returns.
In 2004, she was the lead prosthetic artist for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, leading a team of 42 makeup and prosthetic experts.
Lane"s identity was not revealed until the end of the show.
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She received an additional Academy Award nomination for the 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Foreign this movie, she and Howard Berger won the 2005 Academy Award for Makeup. In 2013, she, Peter Swords King, and Rick Findlater, were nominated for another Academy Award for Makeup, for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. She appeared on the first episode of the National Broadcasting Company show Identity with the identity of "Academy Award winner", but the contestant incorrectly identified Eve Plumb as the winner.
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