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American casting director
Nancy Bishop is an American casting director,
[1] who works internationally from offices in
London,
United Kingdom and
Prague,
Czech Republic.
[2]
Life and career
A graduate of the
University of Michigan and
Northwestern University, she worked as a theatre director in
Chicago before moving to
Prague in the 1990s to direct a play with the Black Box Theatre company
[3] and later became the artistic director of the company. When large scale film productions started to shoot in Prague, Nancy developed a casting career and is known as a specialist in European and especially Slavic talent. Studio credits include European casting on
Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011),
Bourne Identity (2002),
Hellboy (2004) and
Snowpiercer (2013),
[1] and she has also worked with directors such as
Roman Polanski,
Peter Greenaway,
Neil Burger, and
Michael Apted.
[1] TV credits include SyFy’s
Dune (2000),
12 Monkeys (2015-) and
Blood Drive (2017-).
[1] She is a national board member at the
Casting Society of America,
[4] as well as Chairman of the London branch of CSA. Also a recognized acting coach, she founded the Acting for Film program at the
Prague Film School,
[2] and teaches classes internationally.
[5] She has penned two books about acting for
Bloomsbury Press: Secrets from the Casting Couch and Auditioning for Film and TV.
[6]
[7] She is a member of
BAFTA, the
International Casting Directors Network, and The
European Film Academy.
[1]
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