Juliet Taylor

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Juliet Taylor is an American casting director. A six-time Casting Society of America award winner, she has cast more than 100 movies, including 43 of Woody Allen's films. In November 2024, she received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in film. Taylor grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended Miss Porter's School and Smith College, where she majored in drama. Taylor moved to New York following her graduation, and through a connection at Smith, she was hired as a receptionist for David Merrick, a theater producer. A year later she began working for casting director Marion Dougherty, who became her mentor. In 1973, Dougherty left casting to become a producer, and Taylor ran the company until 1977, when she was named director of East Coast casting for Paramount Pictures. In 1978 she began to cast films independently. Her first solo casting credit was for The Exorcist.[7] In 1979, in a feature story titled "The Casting Director," New York Magazine wrote: "It is commonly conceded within the film industry that Juliet Taylor is the best and by far the most important of the casting directors." In addition to casting films including Taxi Driver, Sleepless in Seattle and Schindler's List, Taylor has cast 43 Woody Allen movies, beginning with 1975's Love and Death. He credits her with introducing him to Jeff Daniels, Mary Beth Hurt, Patricia Clarkson, Mariel Hemingway, Dianne Wiest, Meryl Streep, Joaquin Phoenix, and Parker Posey, among others. Taylor was featured in the 2013 HBO documentary, Casting By.[10] She was awarded the Smith College Medal in 1990. She received the Academy Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement in November 2024. She was the second casting director to receive the award, which was presented to her by Nicole Kidman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Juliet Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Schindler's List

Taxi Driver

Midnight in Paris

Angels in America

Network

Mississippi Burning

Manhattan

Annie Hall

The Exorcist

The Life of David Gale

Match Point

Meet Joe Black

The Killing Fields

Wit

Hannah and Her Sisters

Interview with the Vampire

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Angela's Ashes

The Mission

Zelig

Love and Death

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Deconstructing Harry

Whatever Works

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Blue Jasmine

Big

Bullets Over Broadway

The Birdcage

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Broadway Danny Rose

Casting By

Birdy

Radio Days

Terms of Endearment

Husbands and Wives

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sweet and Lowdown

Pretty Baby

The Front

Stardust Memories

Another Woman

Sleepless in Seattle

Scoop

Memphis Belle

Mighty Aphrodite

Irrational Man