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Ellen Chenoweth is an Americancasting director. For her second film,Barry Levinson'sDiner, she cast many then relatively unknown actors includingSteve Guttenberg,Daniel Stern,Mickey Rourke,Kevin Bacon,Tim Daly,Paul Reiser, andEllen Barkin. A year later, she helped cast the filmTerms of Endearment.
In the late 1970s, Chenoweth was an office manager for theActors Studio. She helped discover an unknown theater actor namedMickey Rourke for the 1980 television filmCity in Fear. In the 1980s, Chenoweth was the casting director forThe Natural,Down and Out in Beverly Hills,Ruthless People, andBroadcast News. She was also the casting director forO 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 andThe Bourne Legacy.[1]
References
edit- ^Simonson, Robert (September 21, 2009)."The Other Chenoweth: Casting Director Gives Stage Actors Their Film Careers".Playbill. Archived fromthe original on June 30, 2012. RetrievedApril 7, 2019.
