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.
John Byrne (comics) John Lindley Byrne ( ; born July 6, 1950) is an American comics artist and writer. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes. Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics' "Superman" franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as penciller, inker, letterer and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the "X-Men" comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with "Fantastic Four" (where he also served as penciler and inker). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including "Next Men" and "Danger Unlimited". He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's "Hellboy" series and produced a number of "Star Trek" comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.