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Ellen Chenoweth is a prominent American casting director. For her second film, Barry Levinson's Diner , she cast many of the then relatively unknown actors such as Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Paul Reiser, and Ellen Barkin. A year later, she helped cast the Academy Award-winning 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 such films as The Natural , Down and Out in Beverly Hills , Ruthless People , and Broadcast News . She was also the casting director for films such as 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 . [1]

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References

  1. Simonson, Robert (September 21, 2009). "The Other Chenoweth: Casting Director Gives Stage Actors Their Film Careers". Playbill . Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2019.