updated: 13/06/2005
The BBC website describes Commandant Mele-On Grayza (Rebecca Riggs) as ‘Servalan on steroids’: it’s an apt description (at least for those of us who can remember Blake’s 7). She is a Sebacean like Aeryn Sun but genetically modified: including the implanted Heppel gland in her breasts. Grayza’s pregnancy in The Peacekeeper Wars was essential as Rebecca Riggs was herself heavily pregnant during filming.
Grayza looks like a straight-forward makeup but then you notice all the nice touches so typical of Farscape: the eyes, the eyebrows, the subtle paint job etc. There was a slight change in the makeup towards the end of the fouth season which Rebecca Riggs explained:
Jen Lamphee designed it [the makeup] but then went on maternity leave, and Anna [Single] took over. Anna, I adored, and we worked toward perfecting it [the makeup]. Then, she left, and ahem . . .