Glenn Hetrick is a

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artist/designer, actor and producer. Hetrick is CEO of Alchemy FX Studios, a special effects studio which has worked on over 100 film and TV credits, such as '' Star Trek: Discovery'', ''

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'', Marvel's ''

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'', and ''

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''. His extensive work in film and television is shown by his nominations for nine awards.

Early life

Hetrick was born in

Hellertown, Pennsylvania Hellertown is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Its population was 6,132 at the 2020 census. Hellertown is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th most populous metropolitan area ...

. He attended

Saucon Valley High School Saucon Valley High School is a four-year public high school in Hellertown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is located at 2100 Polk Valley Road in Hellertown in Northampton County. It is the only high school i ...

where developed his love for acting when he was chosen to play the villain Bill Sikes in the musical "Oliver". He earned a Public Relations and Promotions Degree from

York College of Pennsylvania York College of Pennsylvania is a private college in Spring Garden Township, Pennsylvania. It offers more than 70 baccalaureate majors in professional programs, the sciences, and humanities to 3,500 full-time undergraduate students. It also off ...

where he was a member of

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Career

Hetrick’s professional career began when he wrote, produced, and designed the makeups for the music video, Scream! for the horror/heavy metal rock band, The Misfits, with director

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directing. In 2000, Hetrick moved to Los Angeles to expand his professional goals where he landed a job at Optic Nerve Studios, working on such shows as ''

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'', '' X-Files'' and ''

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''. He later appeared in acting roles on Charmed, Scrubs, and Heroes. Hetrick now owns Alchemy Studios which is known for such shows like ''

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'', ''

'', and '' CSI: New York''. In 2012 Hetrick served as the lead judge on all thirteen seasons of the

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original series '' Face Off'', which features makeup artists competing for $100,000. Hetrick has been nominated for three

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. In 2019, Hetrick won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie or Special for his work on '' Star Trek: Discovery''. In 2021, it was announced Hetrick is producing and adapting the 1980s horror cult novel series ''

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'' with production company

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founded by

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