Which casting director known as a specialist in casting European talent is credited with casting Hellboy?
Nancy Bishop Nancy Bishop, originally from New England, is an Emmy Award nominated casting director, who works internationally from offices in London, United Kingdom and Prague, Czech Republic. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, she worked as a theatre director in Chicago before moving to Prague in the 1990s to direct a play with the Black Box Theatre company and later became the artistic director of the company. When large scale film productions started to shoot in Prague, Nancy developed a casting career and is known as a specialist in European and especially Slavic talent. Studio credits include European casting on (2011), "Bourne Identity" (2002), "Hellboy" (2004) and "Snowpiercer" (2013), and she has also worked with directors such as Roman Polanski, Peter Greenaway, Neil Burger, and Michael Apted. TV credits include SyFy’s "Dune" (2000), "12 Monkeys" (2015-) and "Blood Drive" (2017-). She is a national board member at the Casting Society of America, as well as president of the London branch of CSA. Also a recognized acting coach, she founded the Acting for Film program at the Prague Film School, and teaches classes internationally. She has penned two books about acting for Bloomsbury Press: "Secrets from the Casting Couch" and "Auditioning for Film and TV". She is a member of BAFTA, the International Casting Directors Network, and The European Film Academy.
Fintage House Fintage House is an independent company that deals with film, TV and up until the end of 2016, music rights. It was established in 1986 and is co-chaired by Robbert Aarts and Niels Teves. Fintage is based in Leiden, the Netherlands and provides its services through an affiliated office in Budapest, Hungary as well as representatives in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Italy and Spain. In 2008 the company had approximately 70 employees worldwide with 50 of these based in Europe. The company's expertise lie in revenue collection and reporting for rights owners through the protection of money streams as well as actively finding new revenue streams. Fintage House were the first to account for revenue streams on a monthly basis rather than annually. Initially the company dealt primarily in Film & TV but have since focused on the music business until the sale of the division to Kobalt. Fintage House still operates in the Film, TV realm with services such as Collection Account Management and Audiovisual Producer Rights. Fintage House's music clients included Britney Spears, the Elvis Presley estate, Anna Netrebko, Jason Mraz, The Black . Eyed Peas and Foo Fighters.