- Cat'Ania is a professional make-up and special makeup effects artist for motion picture features, television, print and stage. Her career achievements as a makeup artist includes working for magazines and the industry's highly acclaimed production companies, 20h Century Fox Film Corp., Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount and Walt Disney-Touchtone Pictures.
With over sixteen years of experience, Cat'Ania's client list reads like a "Who's Who" in the film industry. She has worked as a Make-up Department Head and Makeup Artist for features such as "Soul Food" starring Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Meikia Phifer, and Vanessa Williams; "Love Jones" , "Love and Action in Chicago" starring Kathleen Turner, Jason Alexander and Regina King, and "Truth Be Told" also starring Regina King and Blair Underwood. She has performed her magic as a makeup artist on features such as the "The Antwone fisher Story", "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" "Love Don't Cost a Thing", "What's Love Got to do with It" and "ALI".
Her experience with popular television shows include: "All About the Anderson's", "Cedric The Entertainer Presents", Married with Children, Family Matters. She has worked six consecutive years as a makeup artist and special makeup effect artist for the reenactment of movies scenes performed during the Academy Awards "Oscars" television broadcast.
Cat'Ania has owned for seven years an television and film industry store/salon "Cat'Ania's Hollywood Makeup & Hair".
Cat'Ania is also a prolific artist and educator who share her expertise in makeup artistry and performing arts with major colleges, universities, and Art schools throughout the country. She also is the CEO of CMEX Workshops where she is a seasonal instructor for Makeup for Television, Film Stage; Special Makeup Effects and Airbrush Makeup Artistry.
Cat'Ania freelances television news stations, commercials, print, television programs and feature films.
During feature and television hiatus seasons, she enjoys her second career working as an entertainment reporter and filmmaker where she incorporates her skills as a producer, writer and cinematographer.
She supports Charitable Foundations including Touch A Dream, seeking to find a cure for Sarcoidosis.
Patent pending for Makeup Invention, TBA.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Cat'Ania McCoy-Howze, Industry Artist
- Mother of daughter, Pra'Elle.
- Founder and CEO of Cat'Ania's Hollywood Makeup & Hair, a TV/Film Industry Beauty Store and Salon.
- Cat'Ania taught Sculpture and Special Makeup Effects classes at UCLA, CMEX Workshops, California State University Longbeach, Truman College Chicago, Miami School of the Arts, Cat'Ania's Hollywood Makeup & Hair Studio, and USC School of Cinema.
- Enjoyed working as a personal makeup artist for Pauletta Washington, Denzel Washington's wife.
- Met Special Makeup Effects Master Tom Savini at Creations Convention. He later was a guest speaker for a class that Cat'Ania was teaching at CMEX Workshops. Tom and Cat'Ania became friends, she was a babysitter for Tom Savini's daughter one night while Tom performed in a Magic Show in California.
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