Mark Viniello

About Mark Viniello

Mark Viniello graduated from SUNY purchase in 1992 with a degree from the BALA program. He moved to Los Angeles a year later to fulfill his dream of working in Special Make-up Effects. One of his fist jobs was working for Academy Award winners Tom Woodruff Jr, and Alec Gillis, lending his talents to THE SANTA CLAUSE, JUMANJI, TREMORS II, STARSHIP TROOPES and ALIEN:RESSURRESCTION. In the fourth installment in the ALIEN series, Viniello found himself on set as one of the iconic Aliens working directly with Sigourney Weaver. Since that time Viniello has worked at some of the top make-up Fx shops around the world: Viniello’s resume now reads like a blockbuster top-10 list, from AUSTIN POWERS 2: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME to WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE to the hugely successful JURASSIC PARK III (where he also played the adult Pteranadon that menaced the cast on the bridge) and Academy acclaimed LORD OF THE RINGS. Viniello’s versatile skill set has allowed him to seamlessly work between film and television productions. Most notably: NBC’s HEROES, CSI:NY for CBS and HBO’s hugely popular TRUE BLOOD. In 2015 Viniello was hired as a project supervisor for Spectral Motion. After a successful run managing a variety of projects, he was charged with supervising the creature build for the Netflix series STRANGER THINGS, BRIGHT, AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR More recently Viniello supervised Spectral Motion’s Creature builds for Chris Pratt’s THE TOMORROW WAR, Netflix’s Curse of Bridge Hollow and Blumhouse’s IMAGINARY!