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.
Laurent Bouhnik Laurent Bouhnik (French pronunciation: lɔʁɑ̃ bunik; born April 7, 1961 in Paris, France) is a French director, writer and actor, known for "Desire" (2011), "L'Invité" (2007), "24 heures de la vie d'une femme"/"24 Hours in the Life of a Woman" (2002), "Zonzon" (1998), "Sélect Hôtel" (1996) and "Troubles ou la Journée d'une Femme Ordinaire" (1994). He began his career in the comic strip and illustration business. From 1988 to 1992, he carried out various technical image and editing jobs within the production company he established. The award-winning "Madeleine" (1999) was the first step in an ambitious project to direct one film per year between 1999–2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. He teaches directing and script-writing at La Fémis (Paris). He has appreared in cameo roles in "Vivante" (2001), "Sur un air d'autoroute" (1999) and "Paddy" (1998).