Casting Directors

2023 After having tasted production and then directing on set, I discovered casting in 2002 and started training with various renowned casting directors. It is thanks to remarkable films such as “Les Choristes”, “Le Petit Nicolas” or “La Famille Bélier” that I specialized for years in the casting of children and teenagers. Since 2012 I have devoted myself more to adults alongside directors such as Dominik Moll, Valérie Lemercier, Laurent Tirard in cinema, and many fictions for french TV or platforms as recently “Drops of God” for Apple TV directed by Oded Ruskin.

2021 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8746109/

2020 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1557236/ Anders Nygaard is a hugely experienced Danish casting director based in Copenhagen, working on both local and international film and tv productions. Former projects includes the epic international sci-fi series FOUNDATION for Apple TV, the ambitious Netflix fantasy series SHADOW AND BONE, and Lennie Abraham’s HULU series NORMAL PEOPLE. English language feature films include Tom Hooper’s multiple award winning THE DANISH GIRL, and BBC Films comedy DENMARK starring Rafe Spall. Locally, Anders cast all three of the hugely successful KLOVN comedy feature films (plus the spin-off tv series), all of the ANT-BOY trilogy of family adventure feature films, and the first four seasons of Scandi crime drama THE BRIDGE (which was later adapted into the English language).

2016/2017/2018/2019/2023 30 anos de experiência na área de Casting, ajudando com sensibilidade, criatividade e persuasão a contar histórias, sempre em busca da mais adequada escalação e reverenciando a harmonia entre ator e personagem para assegurar um elenco assertivo e com identidade em cada projeto. Como Casting Director na TV Globo atuou em mais de 20 novelas e séries. Entre os anos de de 2016 e 2021 trabalhou como Gestor de Casting da TV Globo participando das análises, discussões e decisões das atividades que envolviam a escalação de atores em projetos de dramaturgia. Apoiava também na conceituação e implantação de agenda de aproximação com o público artístico, com foco no acompanhamento de carreiras, projetos e viabilidade de personagens para elenco estratégico. Desde abril de 2022 está na WarnerBros.Discovery como Gerente de Casting Brasil, onde também participa das análises, discussões e decisões das atividades que envolvem a escalação de atores em projetos de dramaturgia e unscripted.

2016/2018/2019/2023 Across more than 20 years, Anja Philip has worked on some of Denmark’s biggest TV series, from sitcom Klovn and comedy Lykke to family drama Avingerne (The Legacy) and Greyzone. Most notably, she was the casting director on acclaimed political drama Borgen; Kamikaze, about an 18-year-old social media influencer’s descent into grief following the death of her family; fertility drama Skruk (Baby Fever); and this year’s hit Danish series Carmen Curlers, which is based on the true story of the man who invented electric hair curlers.

2021 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1311253/

2019 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442090/

2016/2017/2018/2019/2021/2022/2023 CAMILLA ISOLA has been working in Spain as a casting director in television and films for about 25 years. Her work has been as diverse as working on big American productions and small Spanish ones. She is a founder member of ICDN, a member of CSA and was last year invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.

2017 Brasil IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392951/

2016 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1193583/

2022/2023 Cindy Tolan is a producer and casting director who has worked extensively in film, television and theatre. Tolan produced the 2019 London revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman directed by Marianne Elliott & Miranda Cromwell (West End & Young Vic, 5 Olivier Award nominations, 2 wins), which is headed to Broadway in Fall 2022. In the same season, she produced Miller’s The American Clock directed by Rachel Chavkin (Old Vic) and Lucy Prebble’s A Very Expensive Poison directed by John Crowley (Old Vic, 2 Olivier Award nominations, including Best Play). For television, she produced the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Arthur Miller: Writer directed by Rebecca Miller and is currently producing another documentary directed by Miller. Film casting credits include Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (BAFTA award), The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves), If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins), Straight Outta Compton, The Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine, Beasts of the Southern Wild and all of Rebecca Miller’s films. Television casting credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She is a five-time Emmy nominee with one win for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in 2018. Theatre casting credits include Marianne Elliott’s Broadway productions of Company and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Simon McBurney’s adaptation of The Kid Stays in the Picture at the Royal Court.

2021 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218646/

2020 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/fr/name/nm1055024/ Casting director for Cinema and television, Coralie Amédéo begins its activity in Marseille. Since then she continues from time to time working in her hometown but mostly working in Paris or abroad. Very early on, she practiced theater, multiplies he courses of “play”, of direction of actors, notably at the Ateliers du Cinéma de Marseille. After his baccalaureate, and in at the same time as a license for film studies at the faculty from Aix en Provence, she quickly began to work as assistant director on short, medium and feature films. With this experience, she moved on to the position of cond then first assistant director on various television and film projects. This position naturally directs her to the casting director who confirms her desire to work in relation to the actors and the direction of actors. Casting director for 22 years, she collaborates or has collaborated with directors such as Julie Gavras, Stéphane Brizé, Jacques Doillon, Alain Chabat, Xavier Giannoli, Philippe Lioret, Jean-Marie Poiré, Fabrice Eboué, Alain Guiraudie, Franck Dubosc, Karim Dridi, Eric Rochant, Pierre Richard, Mehdi Charef, Cédric Jimenez, Philippe Carrese, Eric Cantona, Thomas Gilou, Yves Boisset, François Favrat, Philomène Esposito, Olivier Langlois, Claire Devers, Philippe Dajoux, Alain Corneau, Stéphane Kappes, Luc Béraud, Charlotte Brandstrom, Daniel Auteuil, Simon Astier, Raphaël Frydman, Jérôme Enrico, Sylvain Monod, Emmanuel Hamon, Alanté Kavaité, Adrian Garcia, Maxime Govare, Cédric Le Gallo, Nicolas Benamou…. She also frequently leads workshops for actors and works from time to time as an actor coach.

2021 Switzerland IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/fr/name/nm0322173/

2016/2017/2018/2023 Debbie McWilliams is a leading international casting director and has cast the last 13 James Bond films. Her experience with the Bond Films has taken her all around the world, casting A list stars as well as unknown actors in various unconventional settings. She has worked with a diverse range of directors including Derek Jarman, Roman Polanski, Stephen Frears, Anthony Minghella, Sam Mendes, Martin Campbell, Marc Forster, Ron Howard. Among her early credits are American Werewolf in London, My Beautiful Laundrette, Prick Up Your Ears and Henry V (Kenneth Branagh). In recent years she has worked on; Angels and Demons, Centurion, the 12 part TV series Borgia for Canal Plus, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, Skyfall, The Silent Storm, “One Child” for BBC directed by John Alexander, as well as Take Down for Jim Gillespie. Debbie is a member of the Casting Directors Guild, The Academy of Motion Pictures, and an Associate of the ICDN.

2019 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1513311/

2023 Originally from the south of France, Fanny de Donceel started her career as an actress in Paris in 2005 and very quickly turned to casting, as this is really her favourite field. She began by casting children and teenagers (for Valérie Donzelli, Olivier Dahan, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and others). She then focused on adult casting for Dominik Moll, Fanny Sidney, Audrey Estrougo, Lisa Azuelos, Alice Vial and Akihiro Hata, among others. She is a member of the A.R.D.A.

2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024 Francesco Vedovati, ICDN, CSA, UICD (Italy) is a casting director based in Rome. He won the ICDN International Casting Director Award 2018 in Sarajevo for Dogman (Matteo Garrone) and was nominated for the same award in 2017 for Pericle Il Nero (Stefano Mordini). In 2015, he won the Silver Ribbon Award for Best Casting for Wondrous Boccaccio (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), and in 2018 for Dogman. In 2020 he was nominated at BAFTA for the casting of The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles). In 2022 he was nominated at Artios Awards for the casting of Fargo. In 2017 he joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The European Film Academy in 2019. Francesco has worked with directors such as Valeria Golino, Matteo Garrone, Sergio Castellitto, Luca Guadagnino, Gabriele Muccino, Saverio Costanzo, Gabriele Salvatores, Gabriele Mainetti, Danny Boyle, George Clooney, Steven Zaillian, Mike White, Felix Van Groeningen and James Mangold.

2016/2017/2018/2019/2020/2022/2023/2024 Frank Moiselle, CSA, ICDN, is a Casting Director. Frank began his career in casting as Casting Assistant to Nuala Moiselle on John Huston’s feature film adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead. As Casting Director, he has worked with acclaimed directors such as Jim Sheridan / The Secret Scripture, In America, The Boxer; Joel Schumacher / Veronica Guerin; Gillies MacKinnon / Tara Road and Neil Jordan / Ondine. For TV he has cast Vikings (History/MGM), The Tudors, The Borgias and Penny Dreadful (Showtime) and Ballykissangel (BBC). Frank is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland, he also holds a Higher Diploma in Education from the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin and is a three time, prime time Emmy nominee for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series.

2017 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1962181/

2017 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/es/name/nm2906389/

2017/2018/2019/2021/2022/2023/2024 Julie Schubert is an Emmy winning casting director based in New York. Select film and TV credits include: House of Cards (Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting); Night Comes On (Sundance award winning feature), Deliver Us From Evil; Marvel’s The Punisher; Marvel’s Daredevil; Marvel’s Jessica Jones; Marvel’s Luke Cage; Marvel’s Iron Fist; Marvel’s The Defenders; Mindhunter; Confessions of a Shopaholic, among others. She just wrapped two series and is currently working on two additional as well as a feature film.

2016/2017/2018/2022/2023 France After working in Fashion and in the Film Industry, in 1994, Juliette Ménager (ARDA, ICDN and CSA member) created in the heart of Paris her casting company, Joule Studio. For over 25 years, Joule Studio has played a significant part in the casting of talents for major films, TV series and advertising campaigns. Collaborations with directors such as Alejandro Innaritù Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Darren Star, and brands such as Jean Paul Gaultier and Paco Rabanne have earned the studio the reputation of the casting « rendez-vous » in Paris. Juliette Ménager’s scouting talent has already provided Artists for over a thousand productions. Juliette Ménager’s interest in artists has led the studio to take part in other creative industries such as VR projects, Music, Stage and Contemporary art for a quarter of a century. Her eclecticism, her vision and her taste for innovation keep her company continually on the cutting edge of the interconnected century’s creativity.

2023/2024 United Kingdom Kate Rhodes James set off to be an actress in the late 80’s to discover that being in front of the camera was not the best place for her. Kate was equipped for not much except a lifetime’s worth of watching television and going to the cinema. So, it seemed these skills would be best served assisting a Casting Director. Kate worked on the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles before being swept off her feet by Debbie McWilliams. Kate went on to assist Debbie on the Bond Films amongst many other projects and then Janey Fothergill where she worked on many television series and films. After 5 years of being an Assistant she was booted out and told to do it on her own, which she did, reluctantly. Kate was blessed that one of her first projects was a comedy called COLD FEET which became a huge success in the UK. Kate went on to work with outstanding writers and directors on many television projects for the best part of 20 years that included The Lakes, Dirty Filthy Love, Blackpool, Alan Clarke Diaries, Bleak House, Line of Beauty, Low Winter Sun, Sense and Sensibility, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Into the Storm, Appropriate Adult, Sherlock, Line of Duty, The Missing, Ripper Street, Warrior, The Long Song. More recently The Terror and Bodyguard. Kate has recently cast the first 2 seasons of House Of The Dragon, Interview With The Vampire. Kate works with Ridley Scott and has cast Raised by Wolves, The Last Duel, House of Gucci and Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix (yet to be released). She is presently casting Gladiator 2 for Ridley and an adaptation of Alien for FX with Noah Hawley. Kate is married with 2 glorious daughters and 2 useless dogs and wiser than she looks…

2020 Laura Muccino is an Italian Casting director, based in Rome. She began as a Casting Director in 1998. Since then, she has cast more than 60 feature films with directors such as Saverio Costanzo, Stefano Sollima, Francesca Comencini, Asghar Farhadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Andrei Konchalowsky, Sole Tognazzi, Gabriele Muccino, Daniele Vicari and for acclaimed tv series such as “Gomorrah”, “My brilliant friend”, “Suburra”, “Zero zero zero”. Since 2011 she directs the Film Academy’s acting department for “Scuola d’arte cinematografica Gian Maria Volontè” She’s president of the UICD (Italian Casting Director’s Union).

2019 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/fr/name/nm1158699/

2020 Lisa Stutzky worked as an agent for Anja Joos Management until 2017. Since 2009 she has worked as a freelance casting director for various German and international TV and film productions. Nora Fingscheidts SYSTEM SPRENGER was pre-selected for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film and was awarded a total of 8 German Lolas. She recently completed work on the Netflix projects HOW TO SELL DRUGS ONLINE, ISI & OSSI and BETONRAUSCH as well as the feature film GENERATION BEZIEHUNGSUNFAHIGSUNGSUNFAHIG by Warner Bros.

2016/2017/2018/2020/2021/2022/2023 Lissy and colleague Leo Davis have collaborated for nearly thirty years on a wide range of British and International independent films. Their long working relationship with director Stephen Frears includes; Philomena, The Program, Florence Foster Jenkins, Victoria & Abdul and the acclaimed mini-series A Very English Scandal (BBC) and Quiz (ITV). Other work includes White Lines (Netflix), Sitting in Limbo (BBC), Unlocked (Michael Apted), Fallen (Scott Hicks), Will (TNT), The Ones Below (David Farr), Emperor (Lee Tamahori), 360 (Fernando Meireilles), Cemetry Juncion (Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant) and Hannibal Rising (Peter Webber). Lissy has received Primetime Emmy nominations for her work on the History Channel’s Roots and for HULU’s The Looming Tower.

2020 Spain Luci Lenox is an international casting director based in Spain. She has cast over 100 productions. She has always combined her career tween working on international high budget co-productions with independent films. She is well-known for working with first time directors as well as established names like Woody Allen, Tom Twyker, Isabel Coixet and J.A Bayona. Recent credits include “Baby” directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa which is in the last stages of post-production and “The Head” an HBO TV series (a Spanish/Japanese co-production) with an amazing Pan-European cast and the Spanish Casting on Warrior Nun. She founded Frank Stein Studio in 2012 which is a leading training centre for professional actors and which has been the launching pad for many successful careers.

2016/2017/2018/2021/2022/2023/2024 Lucinda Syson (Casting Director – London based) After graduating with a French and Linguistics degree, dabbling with photography and the idea of directing Lucinda’s Casting career from the word go took the path of studio feature films working with world renowned Directors . Her first film as an Assistant was Alien 3 followed by City of Joy, 1492 and Little Buddha. After training under Priscilla John her first projects as Casting Director were Fifth Element (Luc Besson), Snatch (Guy Ritchie), Troy (Wolfgang Petersen) and Spy Game (Tony Scott) going on to cast the likes of Children Of Men (Alfonso Cuarón), Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan), both Wonder Woman films (Patty Jenkins) and most recently with 25yrs + experience under her belt she has branched into the new wave of Television with Foundation due to air this year and just completing Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. She received an Artios nomination for Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Bafta, CDG and takes an active interest in promoting the importance of how crucial the art and craft of casting is in our industry.

2022 “Lucy Bevan is a casting director who works with an array of established directors, including Alfonso Cuaron, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Andy Serkis and Lone Scherfig. Bevan is a frequent collaborator with director Kenneth Branagh having cast many of his films including the Academy Award nominated Belfast. As well as All is True, Murder on The Orient Express and Cinderella. Bevan has also worked with Branagh on his theatre season in 2015-2016 and cast six productions including The Entertainer and Romeo & Juliet. Her work with director Andy Serkis includes the recent Venom sequel: Venom: Let There Be Carnage, starring Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams along with his directorial debut, Breathe and Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. For director Bill Condon, Bevan has cast The Good Liar, Beauty and the Beast and Mr. Holmes. For director Lone Scherfig, Bevan has cast An Education, Riot Club, One Day and Their Finest. Other credits include: The Batman (Matt Reeves), Cruella (Craig Gillespie), The Dig (Simon Stone), Dirt Music (Gregor Jordan), The Old Guard (Gina Prince-Bythewood), Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg), Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and Atomic Bomb (David Leitch), Christopher Robin (Marc Foster) and Quartet (Dustin Hoffman). Upcoming projects include Masters of the Air starring Callum Turner and Austin Butler (directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga), Matilda starring Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch (directed by Matthew Warchus), and Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (directed by Greta Gerwig).”

2019/2020/2021/2022 Manuel Puro’s film career began in 1995 as an assistant casting director working with directors including Guillermo del Toro, Nicolas Roeg and Richard Attenborough. In 2000 he was headhunted by Michael Foster, co-chairman of Europe’s leading talent agency ICM, to work with A-list clients including Cate Blanchett, Rachel Weisz, Michael Caine, Hugh Grant, Ben Kingsley and Julie Christie. From mid 2002 Manuel was head of development at SKA Films – Matthew Vaughn and Guy Ritchie’s production company. In January 2007 he returned to his first love and founded Puro Casting, an award winning international casting company working across feature films, television, computer games, music videos, commercials and shorts. Projects include MOON and MUTE directed by Duncan Jones, SHAUN THE SHEEP: FARMAGEDDON for Aardman Animation and PLANET OF THE APES: THE LAST FRONTIER, the first in-house video game to come out of Andy Serkis’ The Imaginarium. In 2017 Manuel created The Acting Habit, an innovative online platform where actors from all over the world can share their work, receive and give feedback, experiment creatively and learn new technical skills. Manuel is regularly invited to host mentoring sessions with organisations such as the National Film and Television School, iFeatures, the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Directors Guild of Great Britain. He has held casting workshops all over the world and is a member of the Casting Society of America. He was a juror at the Sitges Film Festival in 2018 and the invited casting expert at the Frontieres Finance and Packaging Forum held in Helsinki 2019. Manuel was the winner of Mandy / Casting Call Pro’s inaugural Casting Director of the Year Award – voted by actors for the casting director they felt most comfortable with and who they thought got the best out of them.

2017 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0854275/

2023 MARCELA ALTBERG has been working as casting director for 28 years, in the areas of cinema, TV and theater in Brazil and abroad; having worked with directors such as Breno Silveira, Daniel Filho, Julia Rezende, Andrucha Waddington, José Padilha, Vicente Amorim, Sandra Kogut, among others. She was responsible for works such as Veredict, Bom dia Veronica, The Mechanism, Impuros, Elis, Eduardo e Monica, Tudo bem no Natal que vem, Modo Avião, De Pernas pro Ar, Minha Mãe é uma Peça. At the Theater she was responsible for casting shows such as Les Misérables, Billy Eliot, The Sound of Music, School of Rock, Hair, The Lion King, Elis-a musical, Wicked. Currently, she is Senior Casting Executive at Amazon Studios Brasil.

2020 USA Born ant, New Jersey, Ms. Simkin attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and graduated with a B.A. in a major that had nothing to do with show business. After working in the New York City non-profit arts world for a few years, she stumbled – with the assistance of a friend of a friend into film production. Her first job was the obligatory one of office grunt. To this day she remains very grateful for that job as it provided her with invaluable insight into almost every aspect of film production (she read everything she photocopied). Slight exaggeration (i.e., lying) led to her first casting-related position: trolling NYC schools for children who looked like famous actors for a film. It turned out she had a good eye, which eventually led to an assignment to find non-professionals for the original FAME. More traditional casting work soon followed. She has since cast numerous projects, including such films as BEVERLY HILLS COP, TOP GUN, BRAZIL, FIELD OF DREAMS, TWELVE MONKEYS, IN AND OUT, BOWFINGER, ERIN BROCKOVICH, THE SCORE, FREEDOM WRITERS, MARLEY & ME, AVATAR (and the upcoming sequels) and the TV series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY (she is having trouble getting out of space) Based now in Los Angeles, Ms. Simkin has had the privilege of working with many great directors including Terry Gilliam, Frank Oz, Danny DeVito, David Frankel and James Cameron.

2019/2020/2022 Mathilde Snodgrass is a French-American casting director based in Paris working on French films as well as internationally. Her international credits include The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard), Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino), Jacquie (Pablo Larrain), Grace of Monaco (Olivier Dahan). Her French credits include: La Ch’tite famille and Raid Dingue (Dany Boon) The Translators (Regis Roinsard), Switch, Fast Convoy (Frederic Schoendoerffer).

2019/2020 USA IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586570/

2016/2017/2018/2020/2022/2023/2024 Nathalie Chéron started out between a dolphin and a camping stove, cooking hard- boiled eggs in a hotel room in Sicily for an American actress on the set of The Big Blue. 30 years later, more or less, this gold-digger has about a hundred films to her credit and sits patiently in her theater seat , evening after evening, and marvels over a new face, a new voice. She’ll accompany these actors she loves passionately during long screen tests, so that their paths cross the ones of a director, whose deep desire she will have unravelled. Nathalie Chéron is a member of ICDN, AMPAS and ARDA.

2018 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1158050/

2023 Nina Gold is a casting director in television, film and occasionally theatre. Nina’s recent feature film credits include: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; Catherine Called Birdy; Empire of Light; The Wonder; Last Night in Soho, The Power of the Dog; The Mauritanian; The Two Popes; 1917;Star Wars: Episodes VII, VIII and IX; Jurassic World-Ancient Futures; Mamma Mia 2- Here We Go Again; Bridget Jones’ Baby; The BFG; The Danish Girl; Far from the Madding Crowd; High-Rise; The Martian; Paddington and Paddington 2; In the Heart of the Sea; The Iron Lady; The Theory of Everything; The Imitation Game; The King’s Speech and Les Misérables. She has cast eight films with Mike Leigh including Peterloo, Mr. Turner, Topsy-Turvy, Vera Drake and Another Year. Other films include Sightseers; Before I Go to Sleep; How I Live Now; Rush; Prometheus; The Counselor; Attack the Block; Jane Eyre; Hot Fuzz; Brothers of The Head; The Illusionist; Wild Bill; The World’s End; My Week with Marilyn; Nowhere Boy; Bright Star and Eastern Promises. Television credits include eight seasons of Game of Thrones; three seasons of The Crown; Chernobyl; This Is Going To Hurt; Bad Sisters; Slow Horses; Andor; Rain Dogs; The Power; Brexit; Patrick Melrose; King Lear; The State; Wolf Hall; The Dresser; Marco Polo; London Spy; Restless; Any Human Heart and The Crimson Petal and The White. Other television credits include two seasons of Rome; The Red Riding Trilogy; Longford; The Devil’s Whore; John Adams and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. Nina has won five Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Casting for her work on John Adams, Game of Thrones and The Crown. Nina has won a BAFTA for scripted casting on This Is Going To Hurt, five Artios awards for outstanding casting on The King’s Speech, My Week with Marilyn and most recently Game of Thrones and The Crown. In April 2016 she was honored with a BAFTA Special Award for her outstanding contribution to casting over 100 television and film productions – the first time BAFTA recognised a casting director with a special award.

2017 Brasil IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1809479/

2017 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035415/ Website: http://www.peparmengol.com

2016/2017/2019/2020/2021/2022 United Kingdom Priscilla John is based in London. Her career started at Granada TV casting iconic dramas such as Jewel In the Crown which led to casting David Lean’s A Passage To India. Her work includes blockbusters such as Pirates of the Caribbean II and III and Mamma Mia, to cult classics A Fish Called Wanda and Distant Voices, Still Lives. Within the last 18 months, Priscilla teamed up with her colleague, Orla Maxwell to form a new company – Casting Pictures Limited, working with their associates, Francesca Bradley and Andreya Lynham on British Feature Red Joan for Trademark Films; Red Production’s 8-part Harlan Coben thriller; The Stranger for Netflix; Krypton S1 & S2  for Warner Horizon/SyFy.  European casting on Michael Bay’s 6 Underground for Netflix/Skydance; UK casting for Amblin Entertainment’s The Turning,  More recently and yet to be released, Glen Mazzara’s The Dark Tower for Amazon, Antoine Fuqua’s feature film Infinite for Paramount and Spell, Mark Tonderai’s feature film for Paramount Players.

2018/2019 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1033887/

2024 Robert Sterne has been working in casting since 2003 and spent 14 years working with Nina Gold from whom he learnt the job before co-casting several projects with her. Television casting director credits include 3 Body Problem, Eric, The Crown (Seasons 1 – 6), The Responder, The Serpent, Chernobyl, Game of Thrones (Seasons 1-7), Wolf Hall, The State, London Spy and Friday Night Dinner (Seasons 1 – 6). Film casting director credits include The Critic, Paddington in Peru, Spaceman, Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One(UK casting). He also casts regularly in London theatre including Patriots (Almeida and West End), Straight Line Crazy (The Bridge and New York transfer), John Gabriel Borkman(The Bridge), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Bridge), The Book of Dust (The Bridge), Peggy For You (Hampstead), Don Juan in Soho (West End) and The Audience (West End). Robert has won 5 Primetime Emmy awards for his casting work.

2019/2023 Sam Jones is a UK Casting Director who works across film, television and theatre. She has been Head of Casting for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida and, for the first 6 years of its life, National Theatre Wales. She’s worked on many award-winning West End shows as well as for both regional and international producers. Recent television work includes Hugo Blick’s THE ENGLISH and BLACK EARTH RISING; RIDLEY RD, WANDERLUST, NW, THE LOST HONOUR OF CHRISTOPHER JEFFERIES and THE HOLLOW CROWN. She is a member of the CDG and of the ICDA and is an Honorary Fellow of RWCMD.

2023 After graduating from the University of Manchester, Sarah began her career at the Royal National Theatre in London and, in 1992, was asked to join Casting Director Mary Selway, forming a company with her for 12 years until 2004. She has cast films and television for US Studios and UK & European broadcasters. Directors she has worked for include Danny Boyle, Roger Michell, Stephen Hopkins, Hugo Blick and Jerry Zucker. In recent years she has worked on the feature film PHANTOM THREAD for Paul Thomas Anderson/Annapurna and MARY POPPINS RETURNS for Rob Marshall/Disney, receiving a CSA Artios Award as part of the team for Best Casting in a Studio Film in 2019. She is a member of the Casting Directors Guild (CDG), and was Vice President of the European Chapter of the Casting Society of America (CSA) from 2018-2022. She is a Life Member of BAFTA and sat on the jury awarding the first BAFTA award for Casting in 2020. Currently working on a television series for NBC/Peacock about five families in four continents from 1910-1933, the first season in a trilogy of novels that covers the 20th Century.

2018 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080544/

2020 Shayna began casting 13 years ago, working with Casting Director Debra Zane. With Debra, she cast Ocean’s 8 for Warner Brothers, Netflix’ “Bloodline”, STX’ The Best of Enemies as well as worked on many films including The Hunger Games and The Planet of the Apes franchises, among many others. Most recently, Shayna cast Todd Phillips’ Joker for Warner Brothers, for which she received the BAFTA for best casting. Her latest project, the television series “Dash & Lily” for Netflix, will premiere later this year (2020)

2022 Suzanne has won 2 Emmy Awards for casting, BAND OF BROTHERS and THE PACIFIC for HBO and been nominated for two other Television shows ANNE FRANK and PATH TO 9/11. She also received a Canadian Gemini for Casting Durham County. Suzanne is currently working on the highly acclaimed OUTLANDER.

2022 Denmark Born in 1968 Parents: Actors … grew up backstage on Theatres! First works as a stage manager until she started as a casting director in 1997, starting in commercials then features films and tv series. Based in Copenhagen city . https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1560324/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

2021 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1142347/ Website: https://www.theoparkcasting.com

2020/2021/2023 Tusse Lande has over 30 years’ experience as a Casting Director in film and television. She was instrumental in the casting of Noomi Rapace in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, as well as casting the additional films in the series – The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest. She is a veteran of the European film market, bringing key knowledge and experience to projects such as The Paradise Suite, Skyfall, Baby-Call, The Spy, Quick, Love Me, Maria Wern and Wallander. Lately she has gotten a lot of recognition for her work on the popular Swedish TV Series: Caliphate.

2020/2024 United Kingdom Victor is a multi award nominated Casting Director. He started his career in casting working for Lucinda Syson on the epic feature films TROY and Oliver Stone’s ALEXANDER. A little side step in to Indy film working on IT’S ALL GONE PETE TONG (underrated!) with Sam Chandley was followed (at the age of 24) by the opportunity to be the in house Casting Director for Hewland International. He spent 3 years there mainly working on the hit Sky One football drama DREAM TEAM which he took through to its final season. Wanting to expand his experience beyond in house he went on to become Casting Associate to the late Carrie Hilton, and then to Gary Davy for 2 years, working on a whole array of film and tv. In 2010 he and fellow CD Kelly Valentine Hendry set up VHJ Casting, which over 7 years became known for casting many multi award winning shows including but not limited to BROADCHURCH, THE LAST KINGDOM, HUMANS, THE WRONG MANS, EPISODES (2 – 5) and FLEABAG as well as still running shows like GRANTCHESTER and UNFORGOTTEN. In 2017 it was time to go solo again and the first project as the newly set up VJC was the Netflix/BBC epic TROY: FALL OF A CITY, followed by shows such as the BBC’s WORLD ON FIRE, Amazon’s LEONARDO, Starz’ THE ROOK, and Sky’s DJANGO. Recent Film work includes Judd Apatow’s lockdown comedy THE BUBBLE for Netflix, and Baz Luhrmann’s short FLOWERS. He also has a long and successful collaborative relationship with Director Lewis Arnold and they are currently working on their 8th project together. Previous collaborations include CLEANING UP, DARK MONEY, award winning DES, the multi award winning SHERWOOD and the recent award winning THE LONG SHADOW. Other recent work includes REMATCH for HBO Europe, Alfonso Cuarón’s DISCLAIMER for Apple TV (co cast with Lucy Bevan and Emily Brockmann), Mark Williams’ SAFE HARBOR, THE KOLLECTIVE for Dutch production house Submarine, and PBS’ recent reboot of legendary French Detective MAIGRET. He also co-runs The Casting Office Ltd with fellow CD Andy Brierley. Joint projects include THE WATCH for BBC America, Frank Doelger’s THE SWARM and CONCORDIA, and Peter Kosminsky’s THE UNDECLARED WAR. He is based in London.