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Bill Marinella

  • Casting Department
  • Casting Director
  • Actor
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Bill started his film career as an actor, performing at the Cleveland school of the arts

It was there he was cast in the film Teachers, a three-week acting job at the age of 16 years old, as Paller, the nemesis to Crispin Glovers character. The film starred Nick Nolte, and soon after he was cast in Paul Schraders' Light of Day with Michael J Fox, and continued to work on features and commercials all over Ohio. Many years and many jobs later, he moved to Hollywood and became a casting director,casting background first then progressed into principal casting and producing, where he continues to learn and work his craft on low budget features and high end short films. He had two films two years in a row appear in Cannes and win sequentially the Remi Platinum Award at the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival, first in 2006 and then in 2007, both of which he associate produced and cast, both of which have won a lot of recognition among their peers. In 2009, Bill leaped to Iowa to cast several full length features in 2009 for After Dark Films, and while there picked up 3 other films. Now (2010) currently in Atlanta Georgia, Marinella opened a new casting office and has several employees helping build a new foundation in the Southeast.
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    Susan Sarandon, Elpidia Carrillo, Damián Alcázar, Adriana Barraza, George Lopez, Raoul Max Trujillo, Bruna Marquezine, Harvey Guillén, Xolo Maridueña, and Belissa Escobedo in Blue Beetle (2023)
    Blue Beetle
    5.9
    • Casting Department
    • 2023
    Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, and John Boyega in They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
    They Cloned Tyrone
    6.6
    • Casting Department
    • 2023
    Gerard Butler in Last Seen Alive (2022)
    Last Seen Alive
    5.7
    • Casting Department(as Bill Marianella)
    • 2022
    Christopher Walken, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson, and Dwayne Johnson in The Rundown (2003)
    The Rundown
    6.7
    • Casting Department
    • 2003

    Credits

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    Casting Department



    • Nicholas Hoult in Juror #2 (2024)
      Juror #2
      7.0
      • extras casting director
      • 2024
    • The Piano Lesson (2024)
      The Piano Lesson
      6.2
      • extras casting associate
      • 2024
    • Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in Origin (2023)
      Origin
      7.2
      • extras casting director
      • 2023
    • Susan Sarandon, Elpidia Carrillo, Damián Alcázar, Adriana Barraza, George Lopez, Raoul Max Trujillo, Bruna Marquezine, Harvey Guillén, Xolo Maridueña, and Belissa Escobedo in Blue Beetle (2023)
      Blue Beetle
      5.9
      • extras casting director
      • 2023
    • Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, and John Boyega in They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
      They Cloned Tyrone
      6.6
      • extras casting
      • nude casting
      • 2023
    • Kim Dickens and Lennie James in Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
      Fear the Walking Dead
      6.8
      TV Series
      • extras casting
      • 2023
    • Dark Winds (2022)
      Dark Winds
      7.7
      TV Series
      • extras casting
      • 2022
    • Gerard Butler in Last Seen Alive (2022)
      Last Seen Alive
      5.7
      • extras casting director (as Bill Marianella)
      • 2022
    • Keke Palmer in Alice (2022)
      Alice
      5.6
      • extras casting
      • 2022
    • Jennifer Hudson in Respect (2021)
      Respect
      6.6
      • extras casting: Atlanta
      • 2021
    • Joel Edgerton, William Jackson Harper, Aaron Pierre, and Thuso Mbedu in The Underground Railroad (2021)
      The Underground Railroad
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • Extras casting director
      • extras casting
      • 2021
    • Michael B. Jordan in Without Remorse (2021)
      Without Remorse
      5.8
      • extras casting: Washington, D.C. (uncredited)
      • 2021
    • Jonathan Sadowski, Adan Canto, Alicia Sanz, Chinaza Uche, and Zach Avery in The Devil Below (2021)
      The Devil Below
      4.3
      • Location Casting
      • location casting
      • 2021
    • Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
      Wonder Woman 1984
      5.4
      • extras casting director: Washington, D.C.
      • 2020
    • Brendan Fraser, Matt Bomer, Michelle Gomez, April Bowlby, Matthew Zuk, Diane Guerrero, Joivan Wade, and Riley Shanahan in Doom Patrol (2019)
      Doom Patrol
      7.7
      TV Series
      • extras casting
      • 2019–2020

    Casting Director



    • Jim Shoe (2023)
      Jim Shoe
      7.4
      • Casting Director
      • 2023
    • Kareena Kapoor and Akshay Kumar in Kambakkht Ishq (2009)
      Kambakkht Ishq
      3.8
      • Casting Director
      • 2009
    • White Radishes (2009)
      White Radishes
      7.4
      Short
      • Casting Director
      • 2009
    • Personal Demons (2008)
      Personal Demons
      7.4
      Short
      • Casting Director
      • 2008
    • Clive Robertson, Nikki Ziering, and Simona Fusco in Crazy Girls Undercover (2008)
      Crazy Girls Undercover
      3.1
      • Casting Director
      • 2008
    • Use As Directed (2008)
      Use As Directed
      7.5
      Short
      • Casting Director
      • 2008
    • In the Name of the Son (2007)
      In the Name of the Son
      7.1
      Short
      • Casting Director
      • 2007
    • Livewire (2007)
      Livewire
      8.6
      Short
      • Casting Director
      • 2007
    • Disposable (2006)
      Disposable
      Short
      • Casting Director
      • 2006
    • Auteur (2006)
      Auteur
      8.2
      Short
      • Casting Director
      • 2006
    • Homecoming (2005)
      Homecoming
      3.0
      • Casting Director
      • 2005
    • Helen Mirren in Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005)
      Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
      6.4
      Short
      • Casting Director
      • 2005
    • Tied Up (2004)
      Tied Up
      5.5
      • Casting Director
      • 2004
    • Julie Strain, Shauna O'Brien, Regina Russell Banali, and Julie K. Smith in Baberellas (2003)
      Baberellas
      3.3
      • Casting Director
      • 2003
    • Oblivious (2001)
      Oblivious
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Casting Director
      • 2001

    Actor



    • Kareena Kapoor and Akshay Kumar in Kambakkht Ishq (2009)
      Kambakkht Ishq
      3.8
      • Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
      • 2009
    • Striptease Baby Dolls from Cleveland Meet the Unkillables (2005)
      Striptease Baby Dolls from Cleveland Meet the Unkillables
      5.5
      • Mickey
      • 2005
    • The Black Valise (2005)
      The Black Valise
      • Dink Monahan
      • 2005
    • Auto Focus (2002)
      Auto Focus
      6.7
      • Subpoena Server (as Bill Merinella)
      • 2002
    • Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett in Light of Day (1987)
      Light of Day
      5.6
      • Bar Punk (uncredited)
      • 1987
    • Teachers (1984)
      Teachers
      6.1
      • Paller
      • 1984

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      Bill Marinella was an extra in the film "A Christmas Story" shot in his hometown in Cleveland Ohio- that was his first brush with fame, and he was hooked..it was a night scene at a diner, and we worked all night.. but i loved it , I was about 14 years old ..and i cut school to do it!.

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