Francine Maisler
Francine Joyce Maisler (born May 8, 1961) is an American casting director who has built a reputation as one of the most influential casting professionals in contemporary cinema and television. She began her professional journey at Actors' Equity Association, the union, in New York before transitioning into casting. Maisler rose to prominence after her work on the film Reality Bites, and her breakthrough into major studio and director-led film work came when she was hired to cast the ensemble for The Usual Suspects. Over the span of her career, Maisler has cast more than seventy feature films and numerous television productions. She has collaborated with many of cinema's most lauded directors, including Alejandro González Iñárritu (films such as The Revenant and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)), Terrence Malick (e.g., The Tree of Life), and Denis Villeneuve (including Dune and its sequel). She is a recipient of fifteen awards from the Casting Society of America (Artios Awards) and has received over fifty nominations. She has also won two Robert Altman Awards (from the Independent Spirit Awards) and two Primetime Emmy Awards; one in the category of Drama for her work on Succession and another in the category of Comedy for The Studio.
Filmography (142)
Mickey 17
Sinners
The Lost Bus
The Running Man
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Holland
Ella McCay
Dune: Part Two
Challengers
Civil War
Joker: Folie à Deux
Mufasa: The Lion King
The Bikeriders
Rebel Ridge
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Ferrari
Foe
Fresh
Bones and All
She Said
Babylon
Don't Look Up
Dune
The Unforgivable
Being the Ricardos
Greyhound
News of the World
An American Pickle
Little Women
Uncut Gems
Murder Mystery
Long Shot
The King
Marriage Story
A Million Little Pieces
Annihilation
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Widows
White Boy Rick
Vice
Outlaw King
Beautiful Boy
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Song to Song
Baby Driver
The Mummy
Hostiles
Molly's Game
Blade Runner 2049
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Jason Bourne
Arrival
Loving
The 5th Wave
Nocturnal Animals
Sausage Party
Midnight Special
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
The Light Between Oceans
Passengers
The Sea of Trees
The Edge of Seventeen
Creed
Ex Machina
The Big Short
Aloha
The Revenant
Fifty Shades of Grey
The Night Before
Sicario
Steve Jobs
Black Mass
While We're Young
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
The Interview
RoboCop
Neighbors
Into the Woods
Unbroken
This Is the End
Elysium
Mud
Captain Phillips
12 Years a Slave
The Amazing Spider-Man
Killing Them Softly
Lawless
50/50
The Tree of Life
Moneyball
The Green Hornet
Eat Pray Love
How Do You Know
Greenberg
The Road
Julie & Julia
The Invention of Lying
The Soloist
Hancock
Tropic Thunder
Milk
21
Spider-Man 3
Into the Wild
Rendition
Miami Vice
Stranger Than Fiction
The New World
Stay
Memoirs of a Geisha
Meet the Fockers
Collateral
Spanglish
Two Brothers
21 Grams
Down with Love
Spider-Man
Red Dragon
I Spy
Stuart Little 2
Dark Blue
S1m0ne
A Knight's Tale
Finding Forrester
28 Days
Lucky Numbers
Man on the Moon
Apt Pupil
You've Got Mail
Out of Sight
Gattaca
The Fifth Element
Seven Years in Tibet
As Good as It Gets
The Usual Suspects
Bad Boys
Money Train
Reality Bites
