Bianca Boeroiu, an Emmy Award Winner

Bianca Boeroiu, one of the most famous Romanian make-up artists, won the 2023 Emmy Award for Best Contemporary Make-up.

Corina Sabău, 14.12.2024, 14:12

Bianca Boeroiu, one of the most famous Romanian make-up artists, won the 2023 Emmy Award for Best Contemporary Make-up.

She received the prestigious award for the make-up created for the series Wednesday, directed by Tim Burton, produced by Netflix and shot in Romania, with several Romanian artists and technicians as part of the team. Bianca has put her signature on numerous commercials and videos, and has ended up collaborating with famous actors such as Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton or John Malkovich. In Romania, she already has 3 GOPO awards and 9 nominations for films such as “When I Want to Whistle, I Whistle”, “Loverboy”, “A Step Behind the Seraphim”, “Happy Funerals”, “Aferim” and others. Bianca Boeroiu told us how she became involved in the making of the “Wednesday” series: “The collaboration with Tim Burton came after an interview I gave with the designer of this project. That’s how I ended up working in the team that did the actors’ make-up, along with colleagues from England and colleagues from Romania. I did the make-up for numerous characters, most of Wednesday’s colleagues, I’m referring especially to those from Nevermore Academy. I also did the make-up for the mayor of the city and that of a very important character, Eugene, one of the strangest students of Nevermore Academy and the president of the school’s beekeeping club. In fact, almost all the characters in this series had the make-up done by me, obviously excluding the famous actors who were taken care of by the designer of this project and the protagonist of the series, Jenna Ortega, who had her own make-up. As regards preparations for a project of this type, the director already has a vision for the characters. Of course, we also read the script, we have production meetings, then tests. If it is a period production, it is an extra challenge for us, but also for a contemporary film, as the make-up is very important. In the case of the “Wednesday” series, the characters were quite well outlined by the designer and director Tim Burton, but we also had our share of contribution.”

Earlier this year, Bianca Boeroiu participated in the Emmy Awards ceremony: “I managed to get there and I am very glad that I did. It was an extraordinary experience, I hope to have the opportunity to get to such events again. Due to this award, I travelled for the first time to the United States of America, to Los Angeles, and I found it fascinating. I stayed for almost a week and met with friends and colleagues who are make-up specialists, with whom I have collaborated on other projects in Romania. It was an intense and emotional experience, I will never forget the moment when they pronounced “Wednesday” on stage, because the result is not known in advance, it is like at the Gopo Awards, when you open the envelope you find out if you have won or not. And this award really does increase your visibility. I have worked in international productions before, mostly European, I also had a Disney collaboration and I am open to other such proposals.”

Ceramic art teacher, Bianca Boeroiu has been working for over 20 years at the National Children’s Palace in Bucharest and is currently working on a course support for these ceramics classes: “I graduated from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Ceramics – Decorative Arts department and, immediately after graduating from college, I took this teaching position at the National Children’s Palace, something that I love doing and something I would never give it up, no matter how many offers I would receive as a make-up artist. It’s an area where I feel really good, children really give you an extraordinary energy and a lot of satisfaction. I have been attracted to make-up since I was little and a friend gave me this suggestion, to take a course in this direction. At first I was a little skeptical, I admit, I didn’t even know that there was a department at the University of Arts where you could learn this specialization. After I discovered it, things came naturally, that is, I did everything with great pleasure and enthusiasm and that’s how things came together. Since then I have been almost always involved in projects of this type, at first mostly Romanian, after which international collaborations followed.”

Bianca Boeroiu is also a member of the Union of Plastic Artists of Romania, her works winning the Debut Award in Ceramics at the Fire Arts Biennial.