- Mary Jo Slater
Mary Jo Slater (born April 19 1946 in New York, New York, USA) is an American casting director and producer for film, television and theatre. She has over 100 movie credits to her name. Slater was a production assistant for "Mark Twain Tonight!" and had her first casting role for the 1977 Broadway revival of "Hair". She went on to cast five more theatre productions before moving into film and television.
- Allison Jones
Allison Jones is a popular casting director who is credited for helping to bring together realistic ensemble casts for such television shows as "Freaks and Geeks" (for which she was nominated and won an Emmy), "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Arrested Development" (both of which she was also nominated for), and the US version of "The Office". She has also cast several successful films, including "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", …
- Phyllis Huffman
Phyllis Huffman, born Phyllis M. Grennan, was an Emmy Award-nominated casting director for film and television. She received numerous award nominations from the Casting Society of America (CSA) throughout her career, winning twice. She was born in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. After a brief stint as a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines, …
- Susan Bluestein
Susan Bluestein is a casting director, and the widow of the actor Brad Davis. After her husband's assisted suicide in 1991, while he was suffering from AIDS, she wrote Davis's biography "After Midnight (book)". She remains active on the AIDS campaign. Davis and Bluestein were married in 1979. They had one child, Alexandra.
- Randy Stone
Randy Stone was an American actor and casting director, and Academy Award winner.
- Mike Medavoy
Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941) is an American film producer and executive, co-founder of Orion Pictures, former chairman of TriStar Pictures and current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures. Born in the Shanghai ghetto to Holocaust survivors, he started out in the Universal Studios mailroom in 1964. He was promoted to casting director at Universal and then became an agent in 1965 at General Artist Corporation, …
- Ramin Bahrani
Ramin Bahrani (born 20 March 1975 in North Carolina, USA) is an Iranian-American filmmaker, cinematographer and scriptwriter. After receiving his BA from Columbia University in New York City, Bahrani moved to Iran for three years and made his student thesis film, Strangers (2000). He is President of "Noruz Films". In 2005, he wrote and directed "Man Push Cart".
- Steve Burton
Steve Burton (born Jack Stephen Burton on June 28 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor. Having graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California, he got his break as a surfer boy on the sitcom "Out of This World" in 1987. He is best known for playing as Jason (Quartermaine) Morgan on "General Hospital" from 1991 to 2000 and from 2002 to the present. His first acting teacher was Brooke Bundy (Diana Taylor on GH).
- Matthew Bomer
Matthew Staton Bomer (born October 11, 1977) is an American actor. He was born in Spring, Texas to parents Sissi and John Bomer. His father is a former Dallas Cowboy. He graduated fromCarnegie Mellon University with a BFA degree. After college, he moved to New York and worked on stage, until he landed a small role on "All My Children" as Ian Kipling. In 2001, he joined the cast of "Guiding Light" as Ben Reade.
- Danny Goldman
Danny Goldman (born New York City) is an American actor, voice artist, and, more recently, casting director. Among his many notable credits include a small role in "Young Frankenstein", the voice of Brainy Smurf and Ozzie the Answer in the 80s detective drama "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer". He appeared as a panelist on the "What's My Line?" TV program during its syndicated run, …
- Lesli Kay
Lesli Kay Sterling (born Lesli Kay Pushkin on June 13, 1965 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress. At age 12, she had the first individual girl's bat mitzvah in the state of West Virginia. Shortening her name to Lesli Kay, she moved to New York City with her parents at the age of 15 to pursue a modeling career. Kay later worked at MTV and won $22,000 on "Wheel of Fortune".
- Susan Blu
Susan Blu (born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, year unknown), sometimes credited as "Sue Blu", is a voice actress, voice director, and casting director in American and Canadian cinema and television. She most notably voiced Arcee in the original Transformers movie and also in Seasons 3 and 4 of The Transformers. She was the voice director for Beast Wars, a spin-off of Transformers, and the sequel, Beast Machines. She also voiced Aimee Brightower in Galaxy High.
- Kris Zimmerman
Kris Zimmerman is an American voice director, casting director, talent coordinator, and voice actor. Zimmerman is most known for directing the English voices for the "Metal Gear Solid" series. She has also directed and casted the voices for a number of games, including "Onimusha 3", "Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver", "Grandia II", and "La Pucelle". In addition, she also directed and/or cast the voices for various TV Cartoons, …
- Ashley Brown
Ashley Brown (born February 3, 1982 in Gulf Breeze, Florida) is an actress currently starring as the title character in the new Broadway production of "Mary Poppins". Brown initially caught the attention of casting director Tara Rubin not long after graduating from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
- Ahmed Best
Ahmed Best (born August 19, 1973) is a voice actor most famous for his role as Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), for which he won a Golden Raspberry in 1999. He was cast as Jar Jar after casting director "Robin Gurland" saw how loose and lanky he was during a performance of musical group STOMP. One of the few times he has ever reprised his role after the trilogy was on the Star Wars themed episode of Robot Chicken.
- Debbie Rochon
Debbie Rochon (b. November 3 1968, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian B-movie actress and former stage performer.
- Lukas Moodysson
Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson (born January 17, 1969) is a Swedish film writer and director. He has three children with his wife Coco. Born in Malmö, Sweden, Moodysson grew up as an outcast, expressing himself through poetry. By the time he was 23 he had written five poetry collections and a novel published by Wahlström & Widstrand. He decided to move to film to produce works that were less introverted and could be enjoyed by a wider audience than poetry.
- Joseph Walton Losey III
The dominant themes of Losey's eclectic work are emotional instability, emotional and physical violence and perverse sexual power plays. There is not one conventional love story in his films. He has a mania for settings that express states of mind, and his camera movements are always abnormally sensitive and skittish. He has been attacked as a case of style over substance, but this misses the point.
- Bert Remsen
Bert Remsen was an American actor. Remsen was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. He is particularly remembered for his character roles in numerous films directed by Robert Altman, including: "Brewster McCloud" (1970), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), "Thieves Like Us" (1974), "California Split" (1974), "Nashville" (1975), "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson" (1976), and "A Wedding" (1978).
- Graeme Clifford
Graeme Clifford is a movie director from Australia who was born in Sydney in 1942. His credits include the "Barnaby Jones" and "Twin Peaks" tv series as well as such movies as "The Man Who Fell to Earth," "Gleaming the Cube," and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
- Claire Denis
Claire Denis (born April 21, 1948) is a French filmmaker internationally known for her investigation of the human condition with its cross-cultural tensions and family troubles. Denis was born in Paris, France, and raised in colonial Africa, where her father was a French official. She moved houses every two years because her father wanted them to know about geography.
- Joe Ochman
Joe Ochman is a working actor. Beginning in New York he has acted for stage, in commercials, film and television as well as animation. He has also won awards for his work as a stage director.
- Joel Swetow
Joel Swetow is an American film and television actor.
- Leslee Feldman
Leslee Feldman is the Head of Casting at Dreamworks, the studio which produced such films as "Shrek", "The Prince of Egypt", "Road to Perdition" and "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy", among others.
- Douglas Sills
Douglas Sills (born July 5, 1960) is an American actor. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he grew up in the suburb of Franklin, where he was friends (and did amateur theatrics and films) with both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. Sills attended Cranbrook School, from which he graduated in 1978, and the University of Michigan where he majored in music. He then continued his education at the American Conservatory Theatre in California.
- Jack Fletcher
Jack Fletcher is a voice actor, casting director, and voice director. He has done voice casting and direction for many high-profile anime and video game projects.
- James Hall
James Hall (born February 13, 1973) is an actor and producer, most notable for his role in the soon to be released "Shattered Heroes" as the True Grit Top SGT, Rick Maddison. Mr. Hall is also one of the producers of this film, as well as the casting director and stunt coordinator.
- Barry Primus
Barry Primus (born February 16 1938 in New York City) is an American television and film actor. Barry Primus is primarily an actor, but has also doubled and tripled as writer and director. He worked on stage for the first decade of his career, then made his screen bow in the Manhattan-filmed "The Brotherhood" (1968). Additional films include "Boxcar Bertha" (1972), "Heartland" (1979), "Night Games" (1980) and "Guilty by Suspicion" (1991).
- John Dunsworth
John Dunsworth (born in 1946. Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor best known for playing the frequently drunk "Mr. Lahey" on the hit TV show "Trailer Park Boys". He has also appeared in a CBC film about the 1917 Halifax explosion. Dunsworth also has extensive experience in regional theatre.
- Judy Wilson
Judy Wilson is an American casting director known for her work on soap operas. She started in 1981 as casting director of Ryan's Hope and served until 1987. She soon started work on One Life to Live in 1988. She stayed with this soap until she was moved to the popular All My Children in 1991. She has won 3 consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Achievement in Casting for a Drama Series" for her work with "AMC".
- Irna Phillips
Irna Phillips was an American writer who created and scripted many of the first American soap operas. She is considered by many to be the "mother" of the genre. Phillips is best known for creating radio and TV soap operas. She created or co-created the following series: * "Another World" (1964-1999) * "As the World Turns" (1956-present) * "The Brighter Day" (1948-1956 on radio and 1954-1962 on television) * "Guiding Light" (1937-1956 on radio, …
- Deborra-Lee Furness
Deborra-Lee Furness (born 1955) is an Australian actress, director and producer. Furness is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts New York. She met actor Hugh Jackman when they co-starred on the Australian series "Correlli" in 1995, and the couple married in February 1996. The couple have adopted two children: Oscar Maximilian Jackman, born May 15 2000, and Ava Eliot Jackman, born July 10 2005.
- Hiam Abbass
Hiam Abbass (also known as Hiam Abbas, Hiyam Abbas) (born 30 November 1960 in the Galilee village of Deir Hanna, Israel) is an Israeli Arab actress. She is best known for her roles in the films "Satin Rouge", "Paradise Now" (2005), "The Syrian Bride" (2004), and "Free Zone" (2005). She had a small role in Steven Spielberg's "Munich", a film depicting the response to the Munich Massacre, …
- Nina Axelrod
Nina Kether Axelrod is an actress who appeared in television and films mainly during the late 70s through the early 80s. Her television appearances have included "Charlie's Angels" and "CHiPs". Her noted films include "Roller Boogie" (1979) and the now cult classic, slasher parody "Motel Hell" (1980). Several of her family members have worked in the film industry. She is the daughter of George Axelrod who is an American screenwriter, producer, …
- Laura Krafft
Laura Krafft is a comedic writer and actress.
- Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed four feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His film "L'humanité" won several awards at the Cannes film festival in 1999, including the Jury Grand Prize. Dumont has a background of Greek and German philosophy, and of corporate video. His films often show extreme violence and provocative sexual behavior, and are usually classified as art films.
- Werner Klemperer
Werner Klemperer (March 22 1920, Cologne - December 6 2000, New York City) was an Emmy Award-winning comedic actor, best known for his role as "Colonel Klink" on the television sitcom, "Hogan's Heroes".
- Holly Gagnier
Holly Gagnier (born December 12, 1962 in Ventura, California, USA) is an American actress. She is best known for her long running stints on daytime's "One Life To Live", and "Days of our Lives". She has been seen on shows ranging from "Murder, She Wrote" to "Wings" showcasing her skills as a comedic and dramatic actress. She has guest starred on television's "Dreamin On", "Silk Stockings", "Baywatch" and more recently, …
- Stephen Blackehart
Stephen Blackehart (born 1 December 1967 in New York City) is an American actor and producer from Hell's Kitchen, New York. Blackehart is most known for playing Benny Que in the cult classic film "Tromeo and Juliet", but he has also acted in many other low-budget B-movies, such as "Rockabilly Vampire" and "Retro Puppet Master". In addition to his film work, Blackehart has acted in such TV series as "Grey's Anatomy", "The Big Apple", …
- Doris Wishman
Doris Wishman (b. June 1 1912, New York City - d. August 10 2002, Miami) was a Jewish American screenwriter, film director and independent film producer whose paracinematic oeuvre encompasses 30 feature films from 1960 until her death in 2002, aged 90. Self-taught as a filmmaker, Wishman might best be described as an outsider artist.