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Nancy J. Hvasta Leonardi (born 28 December 1964; age 59) is a makeup artist who worked on episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise, and on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. She received no credit for her work.

Hvasta Leonardi attended the San Clemente High School, became a licensed cosmetologist in 1985 and received a diploma as makeup artist from the Joe Blasco Makeup Center Hollywood in 1985.

Beside her work on Star Trek, Hvasta Leonardi also worked as makeup artist on Dangerously Close (1986, with Jeanne Van Phue), the drama Trashin' (1986, starring Robert Rusler), the action film Omega Syndrome (1986, with Dayne Johnson), the drama Student Confidential (1987, with Nina Kent), Teen Wolf Too (1987, with Mike Smithson), Terminal Entry (1988), Cyborg (1989, with Greg Cannom), Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990), both starring Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson, with makeup department staffers Ellis Burman, Hazel Catmull, Kenny Myers, and Joy Zapata).

Further credits include Captain America (1990, with Earl Ellis), Kickboxer 2 (1991, with Mike Smithson), Doogie Howser, M.D. (1990, starring Lawrence Pressman and James B. Sikking), The X-Files (1994), and Angel (2001), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003, with Norma Lee and Patricia Miller), The Ring Two (2005, with Barney Burman, Shirley Dolle, Joel Harlow, Jamie Kelman, Bart Mixon, Margaret Prentice, and Debbie Zoller), Bottle Shock (2008, starring Chris Pine), Pig Hunt (2008), La Mission (2009, with Rick Stratton), episodes of Heroes (2008-2009) and The Cleaner (2009), I Am ZoZo (2012), the drama Knife Fight (2012), Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012, with Jamie Kelman), Laggies (2014), A Bit of Bad Luck (2014), the drama One Square Mile (2014), 7 Minutes (2014), and Big Eyes (2014).

More recently, Hvasta Leonardi worked as key makeup artist on Z Nation (2014, starring Michael Welch) and Green Room (2015, starring Patrick Stewart) and as makeup department head on the television series The Man in the High Castle (2015), the drama The Architect (2015), and the thriller Deep Burial (2015).

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