Mia Neal is an American

hair stylist A hairdresser is a person whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image. This is achieved using a combination of hair coloring, haircutting, and hair texturing techniques. A Hairdresser may also be refe ...

. She won an

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in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film ''

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson, and the only one not set in Pittsburgh – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in a recording stu ...

''.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (2020; co-won with Sergio López-Rivera and Jamika Wilson)

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* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American make-up artists Best Makeup BAFTA Award winners Best Makeup Academy Award winners 21st-century African-American women {{US-film-bio-stub