Jo Adams


Hair & Make-Up Designer

Jo is an experienced designer, efficient and creative, and she loves bringing unique projects to life, with credits including Vikings, Poldark, and Tin Star. She specialises in hair and wigs and excels when given a project to research, design, and execute. Based in Cheshire and well-connected, she’s happy to travel for work.

Poldark Series 5

Hair & Make-Up Designer

Vikings: Season 3

Hair & Make-Up Designer

Selected credits


date
production
director / production company
as Hair & Make-Up Designer
television:
2019
POLDARK S5
Sallie Aprahamian / BBC
2017
TIN STAR
Marc Jobst & Rowan Joffe / Kudos Film & Television
2015
WORLD'S END
Ian Bevitt, Duncan Foster, Tessa Hoffe / BBC
2015
VIKINGS S3
Simon Winchcombe / World 2000 Entertainment
features:
2010
TERRY PRATCHETT'S: GOING POSTAL (Hair)
Jon Jones / All 3 Media, Sky One
as Hair & Make-Up Supervisor
television:
2025
TOXIC TOWN (Crowd)
Minkie Spiro / Bone and Broke for Netflix
2017
DIANA AND I
Peter Cattaneo / Big Talk Productions, BBC 2
2016
JERICHO
Robert McKillop, David Moore, Paul Whittington / ITV
features:
2025
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S NIGHT & DAY (Crowd)
Tina Gharavi / Asterisk Films
2017
SAFE
Paul Ruven / Talent United Film & TV
as Hair & Make-Up Artist
television:
2024
MASTERS OF THE AIR (Hair)
Cary Joji Fukunaga / Amblin Television, Apple TV+
2022
THE SANDMAN S1
Various / Netflix
2022
OUTLANDER S6
Ronald D. Moore / Tall Ship Productions, Starz
2014
PEAKY BLINDERS S1 & S2
Various / BBC, Netflix
features:
2025
OLLIE
Antoine Besse / Rezo Productions
2023
WONKA
Paul King / Heyday Films, Warner Bros.
2021
NO TIME TO DIE (Stunts)
Cary Joji Fukunaga / MGM, Universal
2020
DOLITTLE
Stephen Gaghan / Universal Pictures
2019
1917
Sam Mendes / DreamWorks Pictures
2019
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME
Jon Watts / Sony Pictures
2018
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD
David Yates / Heyday Films
2018
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT
Christopher McQuarrie / Paramount Pictures
2016
ALLIED
Robert Zemeckis / Paramount Pictures
2015
PAN (Make-Up Artist)
Joe Wright / Warner Bros.
2014
EDGE OF TOMORROW
Doug Liman / Warner Bros.
2011
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
Matthew Vaughn / Twentieth Century Fox
Notable talent worked with:
Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Rose Byrne, Naomi Campbell, Patricia Clarkson, Tim Roth, Christina Hendricks, Ashley Walters, Don Warrington, Nabhaan Rizwan, David Suchet, Carrie Fisher, Zoe Kravitz, Daniel Mays, Ian McKellen, Nicki Minaj, Take That, Communards, Meatloaf & East 17.