Avy Kaufman is an American casting director for film and television.
Early life Kaufman is from Atlanta. She relocated to New York City in 1976 to study ballet.
Career Kaufman originally worked in casting for advertising at Foote, Cone & Belding, often print ads, for six years, then transitioned to feature films.
Kaufman initially did not succeed at becoming a casting director for film and worked at casting extras. Eventually director John Sayles came across her doing location casting and hired her to cast his film Matewan. Jodie Foster then hired her to cast Little Man Tate. She later met director Ang Lee, which helped to further her career.
Kaufman has cast more than 150 film and television productions and worked with directors including Steven Spielberg and Wes Craven. Her casting credits include Brokeback Mountain, Mare of Easttown, Succession, Babygirl, Tár and The Sixth Sense.
Accolades Kaufman received the 2005 Hollywood Casting Director of the Year award given by the Hollywood Film Festival.Press release (August 6, 2005). "Hollywood Fest Announces Craft Kudos HonoreesReccipients To Be Feted at Hollywood Awards Gala" . Retrieved February 11, 2012.
She received a 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series for her work on Damages: Season 1 and in 2020 & 2022 for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series for Succession: Seasons 2-3.Database (undated). "Award for Avy Kaufman". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved February 11, 2012. She had earlier been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special for her work on the romance drama television miniseries Empire Falls.
Kaufman has been nominated for eighteen Artios Awards, and has won three.
Filmography
Date Title Notes 1989 Miss Firecracker 1991 Little Man Tate 1991 The Super 1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1995 Home for the Holidays 1996 Lone Star 1997 The Ice Storm 1998 Rounders 1999 The Sixth Sense 2000 State And Main 2001 Save The Last Dance 2001 Blow 2003 Dogville 2004 Garden State 2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events 2005 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Zathura: A Space Adventure 2006 Bonneville 2007 My Blueberry Nights 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 American Gangster 2008 Sunshine Cleaning 2009 Taking Woodstock 2009 Solitary Man 2009 Leaves of Grass 2009 Public Enemies 2009 Brothers 2010 Salt 2010 Let Me In 2011 Scream 4 2011 The Ledge 2011 Shame 2012 Prometheus 2012 Life of Pi 2013 Counselor 2014 Before I Disappear 2014 A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014 The Skeleton Twins 2015 The Salvation 2017 Our Souls at Night 2019 Capone 2019 Driveways 2020 Let Him Go 2023 Jules 2025 Death of a Unicorn
Television
Date Title Notes 2005 Empire Falls 2007 Gossip Girl 2008 Damages Pilot 2016 The Night Of 2016 Billions 2019-2023 Succession 2020 High Fidelity 2021 Mare of Easttown 2016 The OA 2023 A Murder at the End of the World 2025 Dope Thief
See also
List of people from New York City
References
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