Nina Gold

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Nina Gold
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Nina Gold
NationalityBritish
Occupation Casting director

Nina Gold is a casting director known for her work on the HBO series Rome and Game of Thrones and the Netflix series The Crown . She has also worked as casting director in movies like The Martian , Star Wars: The Force Awakens , Star Wars: The Last Jedi , and Solo: A Star Wars Story . [1] [2]

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Career

Gold began casting while at university, studying at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. [3] Her first casting job was to recruit extras for an AC/DC music video. After spending several years casting for music videos and commercials, Gold cast a McDonald's commercial directed by Mike Leigh in 1992. Seven years later, Leigh hired Gold to cast Topsy-Turvy, her first major film. [4] Gold has been responsible for the casting of roles in seven of Mike Leigh's films since 1999.

After casting the HBO series Rome , [5] Gold was hired in 2009 by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss to cast a new HBO series, Game of Thrones , alongside Robert Sterne. [6]

Awards and nominations

Gold has won and been nominated for numerous awards for Game of Thrones, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series win in 2015-2016 and 2019 and Emmy nominations for all six seasons. [7] In 2015, she and Sterne were also nominated for an Emmy for casting the miniseries Wolf Hall . [8] In 2014, Gold was nominated for a Casting Society of America award for her work on the film The Theory of Everything . [9] In 2016, Gold was awarded a BAFTA Special Award at the Television Craft Awards for her career in casting for television and film. [10] In 2019, she was nominated for the inaugural BAFTA Award for Best Casting for The Two Popes. [11]

Personal life

Gold's partner is Frank Hewetson, a logistics coordinator for Greenpeace. They have two children together.

Filmography

Selected television credits

YearTitleNotes
2005–2007 Rome 22 episodes
2008 John Adams Miniseries
2011–2019 Game of Thrones 73 episodes
2015 Wolf Hall Miniseries
2016–2019 The Crown 30 episodes
2017 Taboo 8 episodes
2017 Top of the Lake 6 episodes
2018 Patrick Melrose 5 episodes
2019 Chernobyl 5 episodes
2021 The Nevers 7 episodes
2021 Landscapers 4 episodes
2021 This Is Going to Hurt 7 episodes
2022 Bad Sisters 10 episodes
2022 Andor 12 episodes
2022-2023 Slow Horses 12 episodes

Selected film credits

YearTitleNotes
1997 The Borrowers
1999 Topsy-Turvy
2000 Love's Labour's Lost
2000 Beautiful Creatures
2000 Rat
2001 The Triumph of Love
2001 The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife
2001 The 51st State
2002 All or Nothing
2002 Max
2002 The Final Curtain
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004 De-Lovely
2004 Vera Drake
2005 Sahara
2006 The Illusionist
2006 Amazing Grace
2007 The Good Night
2007 Hot Fuzz
2007 Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007 Eastern Promises
2008 The Other Man
2008 Happy-Go-Lucky
2009 Nowhere Boy
2009 Bright Star
2009 A Christmas Carol
2010 Barney's Version
2010 Another Year
2010 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010 The King's Speech
2011 Jane Eyre
2011 Attack the Block
2011 The Iron Lady
2012 Prometheus
2012 Les Misérables Nominated–Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Big Budget Feature (Drama)
2013 The World's End
2013 Rush
2013 The Counselor
2014 Mr. Turner
2014 The Imitation Game
2014 The Theory of Everything
2014 A Little Chaos
2014 Paddington
2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings
2015 The Danish Girl
2015 The Martian
2015 Burnt
2015 In the Heart of the Sea
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Nominated–Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Big Budget Feature (Drama)
2016 The BFG
2016 Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 Inferno
2016 Allied
2017 On Chesil Beach
2017 Disobedience
2017 Paddington 2
2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 The Children Act
2018 Annihilation
2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story UK Casting Director
2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2019 The Kid Who Would Be King
2019 The Two Popes Nominated–BAFTA Award for Best Casting
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019 1917
2020 The Courier
2020 Misbehaviour
2020 Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
2020 Rebecca
2021 The Mauritanian
2021 The Power of the Dog
2021 Last Night in Soho
2022 Morbius
2022 Jurassic World: Dominion
2022 The Wonder
2022 Empire of Light
2022 Catherine Called Birdy
2024 Back to Black [12]

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