Shamirah Sairally


Hair & Makeup Designer

Shamirah’s career trajectory has taken her through drama, comedy and commercials as a hair and makeup artist before stepping up to being department head. Creatively minded combined with a highly disciplined approach to preparation and planning, Shamirah is well equipped to manage her team and to meet the demands of cast and production. Originally from Mauritius and now settled in London, she is available to work worldwide.

Queen Cleopatra

Hair & Makeup Designer

Chivalry

Hair & Makeup Designer

Selected credits


date
production
director / production company
as Hair & Makeup Designer:
television:
2024
WE GO AGAIN
Nathaniel Martello White / The Forge
2023
UNDER HER SKIN (pickups)
Adrian McDowall / Gaumont
2022
QUEEN CLEOPATRA
Tina Ghavari / Nutopia for Netflix
2021
I HATE YOU
Damon Beesley / Big Talk Productions
2021
CHIVALRY
Marta Cunningham / Baby Cow Productions
2017
BROKEN RIBS (pilot)
Chris Smith / Hannah Lane
2016
CONTROL ALT (pilot)
David Reynolds / Realm Pictures
features:
2023
PLAYED AND BETRAYED
Jaira Thomas / BH Movies
2018
HOW TO STOP A RECURRING DREAM
Ed Morris / Under The Milky Way
2018
THE TRANSLATORS (London unit)
Regis Roinsard / The Bureau Film Company
2017
THE 12
James Whitehill / Seven Scope Films
2016
SOLO!
Nic Cornwall / Dudley Dog Films
shorts:
2024
A FRESH START
Peter Eyre / Sums Film And Media
2020
I THOUGHT I KNEW YOU
Dan Lowenstein / Old Film Farm
2017
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
Mono Ghose / John Macdonald
2016
FATHER
Chris Keller / Magic 5 Productions
as Hair & Makeup Supervisor:
features:
2020
#VALENTINE’S DAY
Nathan Neuman / Dreambird Ltd
as Hair & Makeup Artist:
television:
2022
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (daily)
Brady Hood / Hardy, Son & Baker
2022
BRIDGERTON Series 3 (daily)
Tom Verica / Shondaland
2021
LOCKWOOD & CO (personal to Ivanno Jeremiah)
Joe Cornish / Complete Fiction
2019
THE THIRD DAY (crowd daily)
Marc Munden / Punchdrunk International
2019
CURSED (crowd daily)
Sarah O’Gorman / Netflix
2019
HETTY FEATHER (crowd daily)
Reza Moradi / BBC
2018
HAYFIELDS
Marco Recalchi / The Old Film Farm
2017
HARD SUN (daily)
Brian Kirk / Euston Films
feature films:
2021
PRETTY RED DRESS (crowd)
Dionne Edwards / BFI Film
2021
SEE HOW THEY RUN (crowd)
Tom George / Searchlight Pictures
2017
WE THE KINGS (pickups)
Lauren Mackenzie / Elemo Films
2017
SHARKNADO (London)
Anthony C Ferrante / Silver Shamrock
2016
THE LAST WITNESS
Piotr Szkopiak / Vicarious Productions