Andrés Dominguez of 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe'

THERE'S show business, and then there's snow business. Andrés Dominguez gets to dabble in both. The Chile-born, Canada-raised Dominguez spent 14 years as a sawmill and prop mill engineer before "I just got bored," he says. In 1991, a friend helped him land a job at a special-effects company, and since then, he's worked on films including "Seven Years in Tibet," "Fantastic Four" and "X-Men: The Last Stand." His first major snow biz job, however, was 1999's powder-packed "Snow Falling on Cedars." "That's big-time snow," he recalls.

By Allyssa Lee

July 20, 2008