Juliet Taylor
Juliet Taylor is an American casting director. A six-time Casting Society of America award winner, she has cast more than 100 movies, including 43 of Woody Allen's films. In November 2024, she received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in film. Taylor grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended Miss Porter's School and Smith College, where she majored in drama. Taylor moved to New York following her graduation, and through a connection at Smith, she was hired as a receptionist for David Merrick, a theater producer. A year later she began working for casting director Marion Dougherty, who became her mentor. In 1973, Dougherty left casting to become a producer, and Taylor ran the company until 1977, when she was named director of East Coast casting for Paramount Pictures. In 1978 she began to cast films independently. Her first solo casting credit was for The Exorcist.[7] In 1979, in a feature story titled "The Casting Director," New York Magazine wrote: "It is commonly conceded within the film industry that Juliet Taylor is the best and by far the most important of the casting directors." In addition to casting films including Taxi Driver, Sleepless in Seattle and Schindler's List, Taylor has cast 43 Woody Allen movies, beginning with 1975's Love and Death. He credits her with introducing him to Jeff Daniels, Mary Beth Hurt, Patricia Clarkson, Mariel Hemingway, Dianne Wiest, Meryl Streep, Joaquin Phoenix, and Parker Posey, among others. Taylor was featured in the 2013 HBO documentary, Casting By.[10] She was awarded the Smith College Medal in 1990. She received the Academy Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement in November 2024. She was the second casting director to receive the award, which was presented to her by Nicole Kidman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Juliet Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (83)
Café Society
Irrational Man
Blue Jasmine
To Rome with Love
Midnight in Paris
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Whatever Works
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Cassandra's Dream
Scoop
Match Point
The Interpreter
The Stepford Wives
The Life of David Gale
Anything Else
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Small Time Crooks
Sweet and Lowdown
Angela's Ashes
Meet Joe Black
Primary Colors
Celebrity
Deconstructing Harry
The Birdcage
Mary Reilly
Everyone Says I Love You
Mighty Aphrodite
Wolf
Interview with the Vampire
Bullets Over Broadway
Mixed Nuts
Don't Drink the Water
The Road to Wellville
Schindler's List
Sleepless in Seattle
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Husbands and Wives
Hero
Shadows and Fog
Regarding Henry
Postcards from the Edge
Alice
The Grifters
Memphis Belle
The Sheltering Sky
Crimes and Misdemeanors
New York Stories
Big
Working Girl
Biloxi Blues
Mississippi Burning
Another Woman
Radio Days
September
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
Heartburn
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Killing Fields
Broadway Danny Rose
Birdy
Falling in Love
Terms of Endearment
Zelig
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Still of the Night
Tempest
Arthur
Stardust Memories
Manhattan
Starting Over
Interiors
Pretty Baby
Annie Hall
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Turning Point
Julia
Taxi Driver
Network
The Front
The Stepford Wives
Love and Death
