Ellen Parks

Teaches at Actors Connection New York

Ellen Parks, C.S.A. has twenty-five years of professional casting experience, including both television and film, and ranging from low budget projects to network and studio films. She has done casting for Martin Scorsese, Alexander Payne, David O. Russell, Joel and Ethan Coen, George Romero and David Letterman, in addition to working with numerous emerging talents like Debra Granik and Michael Sucsy. Currently, she is working on THREE indie features-RESONANCE, UNTIL MORNING and GIRLS AGAINST BOYS. Recent projects include the indie feature THE KEY MAN starring Hugo Weaving and Brian Cox and the short film PATRIMONY. Ellen's work is represented by high-profile ensemble casts (Grey Gardens, Flirting With Disaster), as well as for the introduction of new, lesser known and re-emerging talent (Sideways, Secretary, Down to the Bone, Spanking The Monkey, Manny & Lo, SongCatcher) giving actors Philip Seymour, Sam Rockwell, Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga, and Bryce Dallas Howard their first important roles. Actors from her casts have garnered more than twenty five acting awards and nominations. Ellen won a 2005 Artios Casting Award for Sideways, a 2004 Artios Casting Award for Secretary and an Artios nomination for Flirting With Disaster. In 2009 she was nominated for an Emmy and won an Artios Award for Grey Gardens.