Phyllis Carlyle, a casting director and manager who worked with such big names as Willem Dafoe, Jude Law and Geena Davis who later produced the hit films ‘Seven’ and ‘The Accidental Tourist,’ has died. She was 80
, a casting director and manager who worked with such big names as Willem Dafoe, Jude Law and Geena Davis who later produced the hit filmsShe died September 14 of lymphoma in Encino, CA, according to her family and the Neptune Society.Born on August 22, 1942, in Cleveland, Carlyle attended the American Academy for the Dramatic Arts before landing a job at a Chicago talent agency. A friend who had moved to Los Angeles get Carlyle a job as a commercial casting director, and she ran with it.
Along with Dafoe, Law and Davis, those “future stars” included Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Joseph Fiennes, Andy Garcia, Melanie Griffith, Ewan MacGregor, Jon Stewart, Lou Diamond Phillips, David Caruso, and John Malkovich. It was Malkovich who helped Carlyle launch her producing career in the mid-1980s. A hot property around town at the time, Malkovich was offered a production deal at Warner Bros. She said the actor didn’t want to do that but asked if Carlyle did. Her answer was yes.
“So we put together a two-year deal at Warner Bros,” she told Ford. “I think John showed up twice in two years. That was the beginning of my relationship to a studio.”, starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Davis. It became a Best Picture Oscar nominee but lost toSome years later, a client of Carlyle’s was sent the script fora project she said the studios were turning down.
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