Avy Kaufman

Avy Kaufman is an American casting director for film and television. Kaufman is from Atlanta. She relocated to New York City in 1976 to study ballet. Kaufman originally worked in casting for advertising at Foote, Cone & Belding (often print ads) for six years, then transitioned to feature films. Since 1987, she has worked in casting on more than 150 film and television productions. Kaufman has worked with directors including Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, and Wes Craven. Her casting credits include the psychological thriller film The Sixth Sense (1999), the romantic drama film Brokeback Mountain (2005), and the crime drama film Public Enemies (2009). Kaufman received the 2005 Hollywood Casting Director of the Year award given by the Hollywood Film Festival. 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 the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series for Succession: Seasons 2-3. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Avy Kaufman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Crew

Dancer in the Dark

Everything Is Illuminated

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

The Sixth Sense

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

The Bourne Ultimatum

My Blueberry Nights

Lions for Lambs

Keeping the Faith

American Gangster

Zathura: A Space Adventure

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Lovely Bones

Children of Men

Taking Woodstock

Save the Last Dance

What Happens in Vegas

Additional Casting

The Conspirator

Land of the Lost

Touched with Fire

Co-Producer, Casting

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Wish I Was Here

Kill the Messenger

Jack Goes Boating

Shelter in Solitude

My Soul to Take

National Treasure

All the King's Men

Mothers' Instinct

Monsters and Men

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Miss Firecracker

Little Man Tate

Across the Sea of Time

Searching for Bobby Fischer

The Basketball Diaries

Home for the Holidays

Walking and Talking

On Seventh Avenue

Drive, She Said

The Real Blonde

Ride with the Devil

Music of the Heart

A Map of the World

My Teacher's Wife

10 Items or Less

Dinner with Friends

Don't Say a Word

Lathe of Heaven

It Runs in the Family

Against the Ropes

The Beautiful Country

Sunshine Cleaning

Phoebe in Wonderland

The Human Stain

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

Leaves of Grass

Welcome to the Rileys

An Invisible Sign

Our Italian Husband

Around the World in 80 Days

Sometimes in April

Forty Shades of Blue

Keep the Lights On

Thanks for Sharing

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Casting, Executive Producer

Greetings from Tim Buckley

The Company You Keep

What Maisie Knew

Reaching for the Moon

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Betty and Coretta

Very Good Girls

The Skeleton Twins

A Birder's Guide to Everything

Before I Disappear

Louder Than Words

Love Is Strange

Growing Up and Other Lies

Casting, Executive Producer

Brokeback Mountain

Revenge of the Green Dragons

Adult Beginners

I'm Obsessed With You (But You've Got to Leave Me Alone)

In His Father's Shoes

Fields Of Freedom

Color of Justice

Knights of the South Bronx

The Wedding Weekend

The End of the Tour

How to Be Single

The Family Fang

Location Manager, Casting

A Hologram for the King

A Bigger Splash

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Bob Marley: One Love

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Rebel in the Rye

Person to Person

Location Casting

Magazine Dreams

A Thousand and One

The House That Jack Built

It Comes at Night

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

Casting Director

Asleep in My Palm

Operation Finale

Light of My Life

An Ordinary Man

Naked Singularity

Motherless Brooklyn

Casting Director

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Mickey and the Bear

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Casting Director

Critical Thinking

Casting Director

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

American Animals

Death of a Unicorn

Hurry Up Tomorrow

Sentimental Value

The Rivals of Amziah King

Old Gold Mountain

Casting Director

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd