Ellen Lewis

Ellen grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and started her career in Casting working for Juliet Taylor for 8 1/2 years. Ellen has had the pleasure of working with Martin Scorsese on such films as Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Casino, Kundun, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Hugo, Boardwalk Empire (pilot), The Wolf of Wall Street, Vinyl (pilot), Silence, The Irishman, and Killers of The Flower Moon.

Ellen’s other credits include: Scent of A Woman, A League Of Their Own, Postcards From The Edge (co-cast), Forrest Gump, The Birdcage (co-cast), The Fan, Big Night, Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, Changing Lanes, Angels In America (HBO film), 13 Going On 30 (co-cast), Broken Flowers, The Devil Wears Prada, Infamous, Charlie Wilson’s War, Mamma Mia!, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, Revolutionary Road, Her, The Leftovers (pilot), Bridge of Spies, Paterson (co-cast), Ready Player One, The Post, Godless (Netflix limited series), The Dead Don’t Die, Bad Education (HBO film), The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix limited series), as well as Landscape with Invisible Hand, and Project Artemis.

In 2006, Ellen received the NY Women in Film & Television Muse Award and in 2015, she received the Hoyt Bowers Award from the Casting Society of America. Ellen has been nominated for 6 Emmy Awards and won for Angels in America (co-cast), Boardwalk Empire, and The Queen’s Gambit (co-cast). She has been nominated for 21 Artios awards and has won 6 for A League of Their Own, Boardwalk Empire, The Wolf of Wall Street, Godless, Bad Education, and The Queen’s Gambit.

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