
Ellen Chenoweth is an American casting director. For her second film, Barry Levinson's Diner, she cast many then relatively unknown actors including Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Paul Reiser, and Ellen Barkin. A year later, she helped cast the film Terms of Endearment. In the late 1970s, Chenoweth was an office manager for the Actors Studio. She helped discover an unknown theater actor named Mickey Rourke for the 1980 television film City in Fear. In the 1980s, Chenoweth was the casting director for The Natural, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, and Broadcast News. She was also the casting director for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Good Night, and Good Luck, No Country for Old Men, Doubt, Michael Clayton, True Grit, Burn After Reading, Men in Black 3, Bugsy and The Bourne Legacy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Chenoweth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Gran Torino
2008 · movie · Casting
No Country for Old Men
2007 · movie · Casting
A Bronx Tale
1993 · movie · Casting
The Bridges of Madison County
1995 · movie · Casting
Past Lives
2023 · movie · Casting
Changeling
2008 · movie · Casting
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001 · movie · Casting
The Undoing
2020 · tv · Casting
Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)
No Country for Old Men
2007 · movie
Gran Torino
2008 · movie
Men in Black 3
2012 · movie
Meet the Parents
2000 · movie
The Bourne Legacy
2012 · movie
True Grit
2010 · movie
Burn After Reading
2008 · movie
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · movie
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged