# Avy Kaufman

Avy Kaufman is an American casting director for film and television.

## Early life, family and education

Kaufman is from Atlanta. She relocated to New York City in 1976 to study ballet.

## Career

Kaufman originally worked in casting for advertising at Foote, Cone & Belding (often print ads) for six years, then transitioned to feature films.
Since 1987, she has worked in casting more than 150 film and television productions. Kaufman has worked with directors including Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee and Wes Craven. Her casting credits include the psychological thriller film The Sixth Sense (1999), the romantic drama film Brokeback Mountain (2005) and the crime drama film Public Enemies (2009).

## Accolades

Kaufman received the 2005 Hollywood Casting Director of the Year award given by the Hollywood Film Festival.
She received a 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series for her work on Damages: Season 1 and in 2020 & 2022 for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series for Succession: Seasons 2-3. She had earlier been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special for her work on the romance drama television miniseries Empire Falls.
Kaufman has been nominated for eighteen Artios Awards, and has won three.

## Filmography

| Date | Title | Genre |
| 1989 | Miss Firecracker | comedy |
| 1991 | Little Man Tate | drama |
| 1991 | The Super | comedy |
| 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | drama |
| 1995 | Home for the Holidays | drama |
| 1997 | The Ice Storm | drama |
| 1998 | Rounders | drama |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | psychological thriller |
| 2000 | State And Main | comedy |
| 2001 | Save The Last Dance | romantic dance film |
| 2001 | Blow | drama |
| 2003 | Dogville | drama |
| 2004 | Garden State | comedy drama |
| 2004 | Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events | dark comedy fantasy |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | romantic drama |
| 2005 | Zathura: A Space Adventure | science fiction adventure |
| 2006 | Bonneville | comedy |
| 2007 | My Blueberry Nights | romance |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | action thriller spy |
| 2007 | American Gangster | biographical crime |
| 2008 | Sunshine Cleaning | comedy drama |
| 2009 | Taking Woodstock | comedy drama |
| 2009 | Solitary Man | romantic comedy drama |
| 2009 | Leaves of Grass | comedy drama crime |
| 2009 | Public Enemies | crime |
| 2009 | Brothers | drama thriller |
| 2010 | Salt | action thriller |
| 2010 | Let Me In | romantic horror |
| 2011 | Scream 4 | horror |
| 2011 | The Ledge | thriller |
| 2011 | Shame | drama |
| 2012 | Prometheus | science fiction horror |
| 2012 | Life of Pi | adventure drama |
| 2014 | Before I Disappear | comedy drama |
| 2014 | A Walk Among the Tombstones | mystery drama |
| 2014 | The Skeleton Twins | comedy drama |
| 2015 | The Salvation | action thriller drama |
| 2017 | Our Souls at Night | drama |
| 2019 | Capone | crime drama |
| 2019 | Driveways | drama |
| 2023 | Jules | gentle science fiction |

### Television

| Date | Title | Genre |
| 2005 | Empire Falls | romance drama |
| 2007 | Gossip Girl | drama |
| 2008 | Damages: Pilot | drama |
| 2016 | The Night Of | crime |
| 2016 | Billions | drama |
| 2019-2023 | Succession | drama |
| 2020 | High Fidelity | comedy drama |
| 2021 | Mare of Easttown | drama series |
| 2016 | The OA | drama sci-fi series |
| 2023 | A Murder at the End of the World | mistery suspense sci-fi series |