Liz Mullane

Like many Casting directors Liz started her career as an actor, training at the NZ National Drama school in 1984.

She fell into casting after working as an actor in Peter Jacksons zombie horror film “Brain Dead”. When he asked her to cast his film “Heavenly Creatures” which launched Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey’s careers. Since then she has worked with Peter on all his projects from “The Frighteners” starring Michael J Fox, to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and onto King Kong, The Lovely Bones, The Hobbit and Mortal Engines.

Liz has worked on many films and television productions both small and big budgets including “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardobe”, ‘Bridge to Terebithia”, “Pete’s Dragon”, “The Waterhorse” “Avatar”, “30 Days of Night”, “The Meg”, “Yogi Bear” and many more.

Liz believes it is her background as an actor that makes her a good casting director because she understands nerves and the pressure of auditions. She runs numerous screen acting workshops throughout the year giving actors honest insight into the industry and shares many tips to help hopefully make the process of auditioning less daunting and more enjoyable.

Liz was recently invited into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – The Oscars.