Joan Hodgins: Cardiff, Wales

Makeup Artist Dept: British-born makeup artist Joan Hodgins, 84, has spent nearly two decades working for political shows at the network in Ottawa. Hers has been the calm seat before the hot one for hundreds of politicians, diplomats and talking heads, according to CBC. Before Hodgins came to Canada, she had the kind of career that could be fodder for an HBO or BBC miniseries. She was from a village near Oxford, but moved to Cardiff, Wales, as a young mother in 1961. She learned makeup through a brief stint at an Avon-type company, and later got a gig working for TWW, a station serving all of Wales and western England and little do the MPs know it, but the delicate hand powdering their noses and brushing their eyebrows before political panels also primped the likes of Richard Burton, Prince Charles and David Niven. She has just retired after doing News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge's makeup for the Canada Day show. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.