Mary Selway (14 March 1936, Norwich, England – 21 April 2004, London, England) was a British casting director.
Selway was born in Norwich in 1936 and attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. She worked as a model and as a PA at ITV before starting to work in casting, first under Miriam Brickman and then under Lindsay Anderson at the Royal Court Theatre in London. By the age of 34 she had started casting films, which she contin...
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Mary Selway (14 March 1936, Norwich, England – 21 April 2004, London, England) was a British casting director.
Selway was born in Norwich in 1936 and attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. She worked as a model and as a PA at ITV before starting to work in casting, first under Miriam Brickman and then under Lindsay Anderson at the Royal Court Theatre in London. By the age of 34 she had started casting films, which she continued for the rest of her life. She had two daughters: the agent Kate Buckley and the actress Emma Buckley. Selway died of cancer in 2004.
Selway worked with a number of renowned directors over three decades, including Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, Clint Eastwood, John Boorman, Sydney Pollack, Robert Altman, Michael Apted, Nicolas Roeg, Fred Schepisi, Fred Zinnemann and Ridley Scott. Not only was she responsible for the casting of 104 films, such as the Oscar nominated Gosford Park (Best Picture, 2001), but she was also fascinated and...
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