# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazu-hiro
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:13:28.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazu-hiro"
name: "Kazu Hiro"
slug: "kazu-hiro"
description: "Kazu Hiro is a Japanese and American special make-up effects artist and visual artist. He won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the biographical films Darkest Hour (2017) and Bombshell (2019) after earning nominations for the comedies Click (2006) and Norbit (2007). He was additionally nominated for Maestro (2023) and The Smashing Machine (2025)."
tagline: "Special make-up effects artist (1969-)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ttLAiRqjTK1YEk15kEmCqGbnjUH.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1969-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.36
  momentum:             4.105599295270605
  historical:           6.598097333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/kazustudios"
    handle:    "kazustudios"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kazustudios/"
    handle:    "kazustudios"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/kazuhiro525"
    handle:    "kazuhiro525"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875308/"
    handle:    "nm0875308"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://kazustudios.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhiro_Tsuji"
    title: "Kazuhiro Tsuji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhiro_Tsuji"
    title: "Kazuhiro Tsuji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazu_Hiro"
    title: "Kazu Hiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazu_Hiro"
    title: "Kazu Hiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%AD"
    title: "カズ・ヒロ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B9%B4%EC%A6%88_%ED%9E%88%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "카즈 히로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11638102"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1415341"
    title: "Kazu Hiro"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump