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Award success for Spotlight members and projects cast via The Link

We may be into February, but the awards keep on coming, and it’s great to see so many of our members getting recognition for their excellent performances, and we at Spotlight would like to extend a hearty congratulations to all our members who’ve been nominated or have won an award. Last week saw the National Television Awards, with many Spotlighters richly rewarded. In addition, Spotlight is proud to have played our part in helping to bring together the casts of these much-loved television staples. Serial drama nominees Hollyoaks and EastEnders were cast first via The Spotlight Link, and...

posted on 3rd February 2012 Read full article >>

Spotlight at the BAFTAs and Golden Globes

The acting awards are coming thick and fast. No sooner had the Golden Globes winners collected their awards, than the shortlist for the BAFTA film awards were released, and Spotlight has played a part in several of the nominated films and performances. Joe Cornish’s Attack The Block, which is nominated for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer, has a strong association with Spotlight. Casting director Nina Gold cast the film here at Spotlight’s Studios in Leicester Square, after first using the Spotlight Link for her breakdown. With a strong Spotlight presence,...

posted on 17th January 2012 Read full article >>

Cast via Spotlight: Christmas TV special

Christmas is a great time of year if you’re a fan of the small screen, with special one-offs and glorious adaptations across all television channels during the festive period. It’s also a great chance to watch plenty of Spotlight members do what they do best, and entertain millions over Christmas. Of course, castings for the big Christmas specials and dramas took place many months ago, with many of them starting on The Spotlight Link, where casting directors posted breakdowns for a number of the parts. Others were cast at Spotlight’s rooms and studios in Leicester Square, with the help...

posted on 13th December 2011 Read full article >>

Cast via Spotlight: John Lewis' Christmas advert 2011

You know a TV commercial is an instant hit when it becomes a hot topic of conversation on Twitter and around the water cooler at work, and this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert is definitely one of these. The 90-second commercial, which debuted during this weekend’s X Factor, has already received over 900,000 views on YouTube, also well as trending on Twitter last week, and Spotlight is proud to have played a part in bringing the popular advert together. The commercial by advertising agency Adam & Eve was brilliantly cast by casting directors Sophie North and Beverley Keogh, via The Spotlight Link,...

posted on 15th November 2011 Read full article >>

Cast via Spotlight: London Film Festival short films

The 55th BFI London Film Festival draws to a close today after two weeks of fantastic films and performances on the big screen, many of which feature Spotlight members and were cast via The Spotlight Link. But it’s not just the big gala screenings that Spotlight’s had a hand in. Many stars of the future and Spotlight members start their screen career performing in and writing short films, and Spotlight is proud that several shorts at the London Film Festival came together as a result of casting breakdowns placed on The Spotlight Link. Meconium, directed by...

posted on 27th October 2011 Read full article >>

Cast via Spotlight: London Film Festival special

Here at Spotlight, we’re thoroughly enjoying the London Film Festival. It’s not just that there’s so much activity outside our Leicester Square offices, or our fantastic Casting Symposium at the BFI earlier this week. It’s that Spotlight had a hand in many of the fantastic films on show at the festival. Many of the films were either cast at Spotlight’s rooms and studios or advertised as exclusives via the Spotlight Link, the quickest and easiest way for casting and production professionals to get their briefs into the inboxes of leading UK agents and performers. There are...

posted on 20th October 2011 Read full article >>

Win tickets to Anonymous at the London Film Festival

The gala screening of Roland Emmerich’s new film Anonymous is one of the highlights of the London Film Festival. The star-studded British cast is packed with Spotlight members, but that’s not the only reason we’re looking forward to it. The majority of the film, starring Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Rafe Spall and David Thewlis, was cast at Spotlight’s studios and we were lucky enough to see the excellent casting directors Leo Davis and Lissi Holm put the actors through their paces. Anonymous is one of a select number of special screenings throughout the film festival,...

posted on 17th October 2011 Read full article >>

Cast via Spotlight: Cool Hand Luke

Marc Warren has been receiving rave reviews for his performance as Luke Jackson in prison drama Cool Hand Luke at the Aldwych Theatre, London – not least due to the famous scene where Luke eats 50 boiled eggs in an hour for a bet. Hustle and Mad Dogs star Marc is the lead in a cast packed full of Spotlight members, as his World War II veteran-turned-convict Luke Jackson refuses to be broken by the system and becomes part of his fellow convicts’ mythology of survival. But our members, including award-winning actress Lisa Eichhorn and Coronation...

posted on 12th October 2011 Read full article >>

Spotlight casting of the week: Contraband

Here at Spotlight, we were rather excited to have a first look at the trailer (below) for Contraband, the new Mark Walhberg feature film. Why? A young man called Caleb Landry Jones, that’s why. You may recognise Caleb from X-Men: First Class, where he played mutant superhero Banshee. When Caleb was over in the UK for the filming of X-Men, he stopped by Spotlight Studios to tape an audition for Contraband. Caleb is one of a number of performers who’ve taken advantage of our Actor On Tape facility in Spotlight Studios. If you can’t get to the venue...

posted on 5th October 2011 Read full article >>

Recently cast projects via Spotlight

Every week at Spotlight, we have a hand in hundreds of castings, ranging from film to stage, and TV to commercials, along with other performing arts-related work for our members. Whether it’s a job posted by a top casting director through our Spotlight Link, or all manner of projects using Spotlight’s rooms and studios to audition and cast the perfect performer in their production, Spotlight plays a large part in getting the right performers into the right roles. As part of this, each week we’ll highlight some of the great productions that have been cast via Spotlight, either...

posted on 22nd September 2011 Read full article >>

Recent actor, dancer and presenter projects cast via Spotlight

The following are just a selection from the many hundreds of projects which have been cast via Spotlight recently: Film and Television The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo X Men: First Class Just William Waterloo Road Merlin ...

posted on 22nd September 2010 Read full article >>

Recent actor, dancer and presenter projects cast via Spotlight

The following are just a selection from the many hundreds of projects which have been cast via Spotlight recently: Film and Television The Sarah Jane Adventures The IT Crowd Taggart Merlin 4321 Inbetweeners River City Untitled Ken Loach Project 2009 Hollyoaks Sex and the City 2 Stage Dunsinane (Hampstead Theatre, London) Enron (Noel Coward Theatre, London) The 39 Steps (National Tour) Really Old, Like Forty Five (National Theatre) Columbo (National Tour) Canterbury Tales (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Liverpool Playhouse,...

posted on 19th March 2010 Read full article >>

Recent projects cast via Spotlight

The following productions were cast recently via the Spotlight Link: TV & Film Waterloo Road My Family Law & Order Moving On Brighton Rock (Film) Whitechapel Holby City Robin Hood (Film) Chatroom (Film)  Stage Private Lives (Bath Theatre Royal & West End) Columbo – Prescription Murder (UK No 1 National Tour) Hi-Di-Hi (Touring) ...

posted on 4th February 2010 Read full article >>

Latest projects cast via Spotlight

The following are just a selection from the many hundreds of projects which have been cast via Spotlight recently: Feature films Sherlock Holmes Sex and the City 2 Brighton Rock Clash of the Titans Untitled Ken Loach project 2009 Nowhere Boy Nine Harry Brown 1939 Centurion Commercials Vodafone Coco Pops Samaritans ...

posted on 18th November 2009 Read full article >>