Nancy Green-Keyes, a casting director who worked on the first two Rush Hour films and on six films directed by Nick Cassavetes, including John Q, The Notebook and My Sister’s Keeper, has died. She was 68.
Green-Keyes died Wednesday of respiratory failure at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, her brother Andrew told The Hollywood Reporter.
A former agent, Green-Keyes launched Barry/Green-Keyes Casting with a former client, actor Matthew Barry, and they got their start on Rush Hour (1998), directed by Brett Ratner. They would share Artois Awards from the Casting Society of America in 2002 for The Family Man and in 2005 for The Notebook.
They also cast the Cassavetes films Alpha Dog (2006) — on which they received producer credit, too — Yellow (2012) and The Other Woman (2014).
Green-Keyes also was a producer on 100 Mile Mule (2002), Lonely Street (2008), Bad Country (2014) and Of Mind and Music (2014).
Born on May 29, 1955, in Providence, Rhode Island, Green-Keyes graduated from Brandeis University...
Green-Keyes died Wednesday of respiratory failure at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, her brother Andrew told The Hollywood Reporter.
A former agent, Green-Keyes launched Barry/Green-Keyes Casting with a former client, actor Matthew Barry, and they got their start on Rush Hour (1998), directed by Brett Ratner. They would share Artois Awards from the Casting Society of America in 2002 for The Family Man and in 2005 for The Notebook.
They also cast the Cassavetes films Alpha Dog (2006) — on which they received producer credit, too — Yellow (2012) and The Other Woman (2014).
Green-Keyes also was a producer on 100 Mile Mule (2002), Lonely Street (2008), Bad Country (2014) and Of Mind and Music (2014).
Born on May 29, 1955, in Providence, Rhode Island, Green-Keyes graduated from Brandeis University...
- 1/20/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nancy Green-Keyes, a casting director, agent and film producer whose many credits include The Notebook and Rush Hour, died January 17 at UCLA Hospital in Santa Monica of acute respiratory failure following a brief illness. She was 68.
Her death was announced by her family.
A Rhode Island native, Green-Keyes studied art at Brandeis University before moving to Los Angeles, where she would eventually land a job as assistant to talent agent and manager Susan Smith.
Green-Keyes later became an agent at the Peter Meyer Agency and later still at Ambrosio/Mortimer, where she helped develop the careers of John Hawkes, Steve Buscemi, Angela Bassett, Samuel Jackson, M.C. Gainey and Troy Evans, among others.
Moving from agenting to casting, Green-Keyes and her partner Matt Barry were responsible for casting dozens of films including Rush Hour (1998), The Family Man (2000), John Q (2002), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), The Notebook (2004), Alpha Dog (2006) and My Sister’s Keeper (2009).
Green-Keyes and...
Her death was announced by her family.
A Rhode Island native, Green-Keyes studied art at Brandeis University before moving to Los Angeles, where she would eventually land a job as assistant to talent agent and manager Susan Smith.
Green-Keyes later became an agent at the Peter Meyer Agency and later still at Ambrosio/Mortimer, where she helped develop the careers of John Hawkes, Steve Buscemi, Angela Bassett, Samuel Jackson, M.C. Gainey and Troy Evans, among others.
Moving from agenting to casting, Green-Keyes and her partner Matt Barry were responsible for casting dozens of films including Rush Hour (1998), The Family Man (2000), John Q (2002), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), The Notebook (2004), Alpha Dog (2006) and My Sister’s Keeper (2009).
Green-Keyes and...
- 1/19/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Hatfields & McCoys‘ Tom Berenger, Amy Smart, Bill Duke, Neal McDonough, Christopher Marquette and Frederick Weller have been set to join Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe in the dramatic-thriller Whiskey Bay. The film is a co-production between Cb Productions, Ana Media and Mandalay Vision, and shooting is just getting underway in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Producer Chris Brinker is making his directorial debut from a script written by Johnny Hirschbein. Inspired by a true story, Whiskey Bay concerns a veteran Baton Rouge detective (Dafoe) who infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South and, after taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer (Dillon), convinces him to turn informant to help bring down the entire organization including its amoral architect (Berenger). Amy Smart plays Dillon’s wife. Brinker produces with Ana’s Scott Einbinder, Mandalay Vision President Matthew Rhodes, Nancy Green-Keyes and Jim Crabbe. Kevin Chapman and Don Yesso...
- 8/27/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe will both star in Chris Brinker's indie drama "Whiskey Bay" which will shoot shortly in Louisiana says Deadline.
Dafoe plays a veteran cop who busts an estranged former Aryan Brotherhood member and ex-con (Dillon) trying to start over. Instead, he ends up going undercover to expose the illegal activities of the organization.
Jonny Hirschbein penned the script while Scott Einbinder, Matt Rhodes, Jim Crabbe, Nancy Green-Keyes and Kevin Chapman are producing.
Dafoe plays a veteran cop who busts an estranged former Aryan Brotherhood member and ex-con (Dillon) trying to start over. Instead, he ends up going undercover to expose the illegal activities of the organization.
Jonny Hirschbein penned the script while Scott Einbinder, Matt Rhodes, Jim Crabbe, Nancy Green-Keyes and Kevin Chapman are producing.
- 8/16/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe are set to star in Whiskey Bay, an independent drama directed by Chris Brinker. The Jonny Hirschbein-scripted film stars Dafoe as a veteran cop who busts estranged white supremacist and ex-con, Jesse Wheeler. Dillon plays Wheeler, a notorious former member of the Aryan Brotherhood who’s trying to start his life over but gets enlisted to go undercover to expose illegal activities in the organization. Scott Einbinder, Matt Rhodes, Jim Crabbe, Nancy Green-Keyes and Kevin Chapman are producing and the film will shoot in Louisiana. Dillon stars with Kristen Wiig and Annette Bening in Imogene, which premieres at Toronto, and completed Sunlight Jr with Naomi Watts and Pawn Shop Chronicles with Elijah Wood, Paul Walker and Brendan Fraser. He’s repped by CAA and Untitled while Dafoe is repped by ICM Partners and D/F Management.
- 8/15/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Matthew Barry began his Hollywood life as an actor, appearing in such films as The Wraith and Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna. These days he's a respected casting director who has worked with the likes of Jerry Bruckheimer, Tim Burton, and Nick Cassavetes. What, exactly, prompted the change in career tracks? "I was about to turn 30 years old, and I was bored," Barry says bluntly. "I was doing some really bad television, and I remember sitting on the set one day, going, 'There's got to be more to life than this.'" After a brief stint in the UCLA film program, the NewYork City native decided to ask director Barry Levinson for a job — any job. "I knew an associate of his who hooked me up," Barry recalls. "The production manager [on Levinson's film Toys] said, 'Well, we need some help in casting.' I started working with Ellen Chenoweth on that film and loved every minute of it.
- 11/6/2008
- by Sarah Kuhn
- backstage.com
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