Bram Stoker’s Dracula , Interview with a Vampire and Cyrano de Bergerac makeup artist Michèle Burke , who was the first woman to win an Oscar for her craft, died on September 26 in L.A. at the age of 75.

Burke chalked up more than 50 feature film and TV credits across her career including Jean-Jacques Annaud’s prehistoric drama Quest for Fire , for which she became the first woman to win a Best Makeup Oscar alongside Sarah Monzani in 1983.

She shared a second Oscar with Greg Cannom and Matthew W. Mungle in 1993 for their work on Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula .

Burke was also nominated for The Clan of the Cave Bear (1987), Cyrano de Bergerac (1991), Austin Powers: The Man Who Shagged Me (2000) and The Cell (2001).

The makeup artist had a longstanding

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