Heike Merker Makeup & Hair Designer

Make-Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Award Nominated - Best Contemporary Hair Styling - "Ballad of a Small Player" 2026

Academy Award - Nominated - Best Makeup & Hair - "All Quiet on the Western Front“ 2023
BAFTA - Nominated - Best Makeup & Hair - “All quiet on the Western Front“ 2023
North Dakota Film Society - Nominated - Best Makeup & Hair - “All quiet on the Western Front“ 2023
European Film Award - Winner - Best Makeup & Hair - “All quiet on the Western Front“ 2022
Guild Awards - Winner - Best Contemporary Hair Style - “Crazy Rich Asians” 2019 
Guild Awards - Nominated - Best Contemporary Makeup - “Crazy Rich Asians“ 2019
German Film Award - Nominated - Best Makeup & Hair “55 Steps” 2019
German Film Award - Nominated - Best Makeup & Hair “Iceman” 2018 
German Film Award - Nominated - Best Makeup & Hair “The Physician” 2014
Boulevard of the Stars - Walk of Fame Berlin - 2014 
Saturn Award - Winner - Best Makeup & Hair “Cloud Atlas“ 2013 
Online Film & Telev. Association - Nominated - Best Makeup & Hair “Cloud Atlas" 2012
German Film Award - Winner - Best Makeup & Hair “Anonymous” 2012
German Film Award - Winner - Best Makeup / Hair “Goethe“ 2011
Austrian Film Award - Nominated - Best Makeup & Hair “Kill Daddy“ 2011

Feature Films

THE RIDERS 
In Production 
Makeup & Hair Designer 
A24 | Directed by Edward Berger 
Produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner & Brad Pitt
Featuring Brad Pitt
DUNE: PART THREE Makeup & Hair Designer
Legendary Entertainment for Warner Bros. | Directed by Denis Villeneuve 
Produced by Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe
Featuring Anya Taylor-Joy, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Robert Pattinson, Timothée Chalamet & Zendaya 
BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER  Makeup & Hair Designer 
Good Chaos | Directed by Edward Berger
Produced by Mike Goodridge & Matthew James Wilkinson.
Featuring Colin Farrell, Tilda Swinton & Fala Chen
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Makeup & Hair Designer 
Indian Paintbrush | Directed by Wes Anderson 
Produced by Steven Rales
Featuring Benicio Del Toro, Tom Hanks, Benedict Cumberbatch & Scarlett Johansson.
MARIA Makeup & Hair Designer 
Apartment Pictures | Directed by Pablo Larraín
Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín
Featuring Angelina Jolie, Alba Rohrwacher & Pierfrancesco Favino
MOTHER MARY Makeup & Hair Designer
A24 | Directed by David Lowery
Featuring Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel & Hunter Schafer
BATGIRL Makeup & Hair Designer
Warner Bros. | Directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah
Produced by Kristin Burr
Featuring Leslie Grace, J.K. Simmons & Brendan Fraser 
LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER Makeup & Hair Designer
Amblin Partners | Directed by André Øvredal
Produced by Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer
Featuring Corey Hawkins, David Dastmalchian, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham & Javier Botet
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Makeup & Hair Designer  
Rocket Science for Netflix | Directed by Edward Berger
Produced by Daniel Marc Dreifuss & Malte Grunert
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS Makeup Designer
Village Roadshow Pictures for Warner Bros. | Directed by Lana Wachowski
Produced by Grant Hill & Lana Wachowski
Featuring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Christina Ricci & Jessica Henwick
GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE Makeup & Hair Designer 
StudioCanal | Directed by Navot Papushado 
Produced by Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona
Featuring Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Angela Basset, Michelle Yeoh, Carla Gugino & Paul Giamatti 
WITHOUT REMORSE Makeup & Hair Designer
Amazon Studios | Directed by Stefano Sollima
Produced byMichael B. Jordan, Akiva Goldsman, Josh Appelbaum
Featuring Michael B. Jordan
THE POSTCARD KILLINGS Makeup & Hair Designer 
Capstone Group | Directed by Danis Tanovic 
Produced by Paul Brennan, Tracey E. Edmonds, Leopoldo Gout, Peter Nelson & Miriam Segal
Featuring Jeffrey Dead Morgan, Cush Jumbo, Famke Janssen & Denis O’Hare
JILL Makeup & Hair Designer
Hugofilm Features | Directed by Steven Hayes 
Produced by Daniel Baur, Byron A. Martin & Christof Neracher
Featuring Tom Pelphrey, Juliet Rylance, Gerrett Wareing & Dree Hemingway 
THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB  Makeup & Hair Designer 
Sony Pictures | Directed by Fede Alvarez 
Produced by Amy Pascal & Scott Rudin
Featuring Claire Foy, Sylvia Hoeks, Lakeith Stanfield & Stephen Merchant 
CRAZY RICH ASIANS Makeup & Hair Designer
Warner Bros. | Directed by Jon M. Chu
Produced by Nina Jacobson & John Penotti
Featuring Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Sonoya Mizuno, Ken Jeong, Lisa Lu, Constance Wu, Henry Golding & Awkwafina
55 STEPS Makeup & Hair Designer
Elsani Film | Directed by Bille August
Produced by Anita Elsani & Sara Risher
Featuring Hilary Swank & Helena Bonham Carter
ICEMAN  Makeup & Hair Designer 
Port Au Prince Film / Kultur Produktion | Directed by Felix Randau 
Produced by Jan Krüger & Andreas Pichler 
POINT BREAK  Makeup & Hair Designer
25.Babelsberg Film | Directed by Ericson Core
Featuring Edgar Ramirez, Luke Bracy, Teresa Palmer & Ray Winstone
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING Makeup & Hair Designer
Oberon Film | Directed by Tom Tykwer
Featuring Tom Hanks & Sarita Choudhury
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL  Key Makeup & Hair Artist
Paintbrush | Directed by Wes Anderson
Featuring Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton & Jeff Goldblum
THE PHYSICIAN  Makeup & Hair Designer
UFA Cinema | Directed by Philipp Stolzl
Featuring Tom Payne, Sir Ben Kingsley & Stellan Skarsgard 
CLOUD ATLAS  Makeup & Hair Supervisor
Oberon Films | Directed by Tom Tykwer
Featuring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry & Jim Broadbent 
ANONYMOUS  Makeup & Hair Designer
14.Babelsberg Film | Directed by Roland Emmerich
Featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Rhys Ifans & Joely Richardson 
GOETHE!  Makeup & Hair Designer
Deutschefilm | Directed by Philipp Stolzl
Featuring Alexander Fehling, Henry Hubchen & Miriam Stein 
STURM  Makeup & Hair Designer 
23/5 Film | Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid
Featuring Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca & Steven Dillane
JOHN RABE  Makeup & Hair Designer
Hoffman / Voges | Directed by Florian Gallenberger
Featuring Uli Tukur, Daniel Bruhl & Steve Buscemi 
KILL DADDY Makeup & Hair Designer
Tatfilm / Lotus Film | Directed by Michael Glawogger
Featuring Sabine Timoteo & Ulrich Tukur 
VALLEY OF FLOWERS Makeup & Hair Designer
Pandora Film / Monsoon Film | Directed by Pan Nalin
Featuring Milene Jampanoi, Milind Sonam & Nasirudin Shar 
SHADOWS OF TIME  Makeup & Hair Designer
Dian Film / Fanes Film | Directed by Florian Gallenberger
Featuring Irfan Khan & Tilotoma Shome
GOODBYE LENIN Makeup & Hair Supervisor
X-Filme | Directed by Wolfgang Becker
Featuring Daniel Bruhl, Kathrin Sass & Michael Gwisdek 
   

TV

MARCO POLO 
Series 2
Makeup & Hair Designer
Electus | Directors include David Petrarca, Alik Sakharov & Dan Minahan
Executive Producers John Fusco & Dan Minahan
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