Lynn Kressel

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Lynn Kressel is an Emmy Award winning Casting Director and Producer who divides her time between New York and Los Angeles.

She won the first Emmy ever awarded to a Casting Director – Outstanding Achievement in Casting for a Mini-Series or a Special – for Lonesome Dove, a Mini-Series based on the Larry McMurtry novel.  The miniseries starred Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Anjelica Huston, Diane Lane and Steve Buscemi.

She received Emmy nominations for Warm Springs (HBO), Something the Lord Made (HBO), and Stephen King’s The Stand.

Undoubtedly, Lynn’s casting of Law & Order remains a highlight of her career. She cast the pilot episodes for Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Los Angeles. She received the Artios Award for her work on these shows and stayed on as a consultant.

Lynn has cast numerous feature films, among them Spider-Man,  Nights in Rodanthe, The Invention of Lying,  Don Juan De Marco,  Blue Streak, and The Rundown.

In 2008 Lynn decided to segue into producing and has since worked on a number of independent films about to be released.

She served as the Executive Producer of the feature film All Relative directed by J.C.Khoury and starring Connie Nielsen and Sara Paxton, which was licensed to Netflix.

Lynn also produced Daniela Amavia’s feature film  a beautiful now, which premiered to critical acclaim at the  Los Angeles Film Festival. The Film had a limited theatrical release and was licensed to Netflix US.

She was also one of the producers on  Daniela Amavia’s next feature film, Get Lost, a coming of age story inspired by “Alice in Wonderland”, in which the beloved creatures from the story are turned into memorable human characters; Emulation, a character-driven elevated sci-fi A.I. thriller and The Alternative, a provocative, deeply affecting custody battle between two lesbian mothers—Kramer vs Kramer for the 21st Century.

Lynn’s other casting credits include:

SPIDER-MAN (Columbia)

Ricky Gervais THE INVENTION OF LYING (Warner Bros)

NIGHTS IN RODANTHE (Warner Bros)

DON JUAN DeMARCO (New Line)

FOR LOVE OF THE GAME (Universal)

THE RUNDOWN (Universal)

BLUE STREAK (Universal)

EAT, PRAY, LOVE (Columbia) and

“The Stand”, mini series based on Stephen King’s book.