Lori Eastside was an American makeup artist who worked in the Hollywood film and television industry, contributing to productions including horror films and dramatic television through the specialised skills of prosthetics, special effects makeup, and the transformation of actors into the characters, creatures, and aged or wounded versions of characters that productions require. She worked on productions including episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the Amazon Prime Video comedy-drama set in the late 1950s New York entertainment world. She died in 2026.
She worked in the makeup department of the Hollywood film and television industry, a specialised technical craft that encompasses both the conventional cosmetic work of beauty makeup for actors and the more technically demanding work of special effects and character makeup that turns human performers into things they are not. Makeup artists in the entertainment industry are among the most technically skilled craftspeople in the production chain, their work combining knowledge of skin, colour, light, materials, and human anatomy with the practical ability to execute complex transformations quickly and consistently across multiple production days and shooting conditions.
Horror film makeup is among the most technically demanding specialisations in the field, requiring the creation of wounds, monsters, aged faces, and other transformations that need to look convincing under the close examination that cinema cameras impose and that need to survive the physical demands of a film set including heat, sweat, physical action, and the repeated application and removal across days or weeks of production. The history of Hollywood horror makeup includes some of the most celebrated technical achievements in cinema history, from Jack Pierce’s work creating the Universal Monsters of the 1930s and 1940s through the more recent developments in prosthetics and silicone that have expanded the range of transformations that makeup artists can create. Workers in this tradition contribute to the craft history of the medium as well as to the specific productions they serve.
Her work on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the period comedy-drama created by Amy Sherman-Palladino that ran from 2017 to 2023 and that won multiple Emmy and Golden Globe awards for its writing, performance, and production values, placed her within one of the most acclaimed television productions of the streaming era. Period productions like Mrs. Maisel require makeup departments to research and recreate the beauty and grooming styles of the period being represented, adding a historical dimension to the craft work that straight contemporary productions do not require. The level of period authenticity that Mrs. Maisel achieved across its visual dimensions, including costume, production design, and makeup, was one of the consistent objects of critical praise and contributed to the show’s reputation for quality.
She was remembered by the entertainment industry colleagues and the productions she had served as a skilled and dedicated craftsperson whose technical contribution to the productions she worked on was the kind of behind-the-camera work that audiences rarely see directly but that they experience in the quality of what they watch. She died in 2026.