Carmen Cuba
Carmen Cuba is a casting director. Cuba began her casting career in 1999, working with filmmaker Larry Clark on Bully and Ken Park. This early experience led to a long-standing collaboration with Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, casting various projects from the experimental Bubble to 2023's Magic Mike's Last Dance. She has also collaborated with Ridley Scott on The Martian, Alien: Covenant, and All the Money in the World. Her film credits include Leos Carax's Annette, Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections, Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, and Jordan Peele's NOPE. In 2022, she worked on Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film, Madonna's autobiographical feature, the directorial debuts of Zoë Kravitz and Finn Wolfhard, and Justin Simien's Haunted Mansion. In television, Cuba has cast projects for acclaimed directors, including Soderbergh (Behind the Candelabra, The Knick), Luca Guadagnino (We Are Who We Are), Alex Garland (Devs), and Patty Jenkins (I Am the Night). She has also contributed to the celebrated series by Tarrell McCraney (David Makes Man), Tanya Saracho (Vida), Amy Seimetz (The Girlfriend Experience), Lena Waithe (The Chi), and Andrew Haigh (Looking). Notably, she cast alongside the Duffer Brothers all four seasons of Stranger Things. In 2023, her television highlights include Swarm for Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, another Glover-led series, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Soderbergh's limited series Full Circle, the Star Wars series The Acolyte for Leslye Headland, and Marvel's limited series Wonder Man directed by Destin Cretton. Cuba has been nominated for five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Casting, winning twice for Behind the Candelabra and Stranger Things.
Filmography (72)
HIM
Fear Street: Prom Queen
Presence
The Naked Gun
Hell of a Summer
Good Fortune
Night Always Comes
Black Bag
The Christophers
Heretic
Blink Twice
The Apprentice
The Beast
Emmanuelle
Haunted Mansion
Magic Mike's Last Dance
Fingernails
Nope
The Adam Project
Kimi
Entergalactic
Stars at Noon
Fear Street: 1994
Fear Street: 1978
Fear Street: 1666
The Matrix Resurrections
The Power of the Dog
No Sudden Move
His House
Hillbilly Elegy
Let Them All Talk
Just Mercy
The Laundromat
Queen & Slim
Bad Times at the El Royale
Unsane
The Girl in the Spider's Web
Gringo
Lean on Pete
Boy Erased
My Dinner with Hervé
American Woman
Logan Lucky
Alien: Covenant
All the Money in the World
The Florida Project
Blood Father
Morgan
Dark Places
The Martian
Magic Mike XXL
Hidden
Nightcrawler
Beyond the Reach
Now You See Me
Behind the Candelabra
Side Effects
Some Velvet Morning
Butter
Magic Mike
The Sitter
Contagion
Haywire
The Informant!
The Butterfly Effect
One Point O
Ken Park
Bully
Erin Brockovich
Bowfinger
Life
