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Top Grossing Casting Director at the Worldwide Box OfficeBETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Casting Directors based on the worldwide box office of the movies they worked on.
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1
Sarah Halley Finn
| Best known as a Casting Director based on credits in that role in 64 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Avengers: Endgame ($2,717,503,922 in 2019), Avengers: Infinity War ($2,048,158,241 in 2018), The Avengers ($1,515,100,211 in 2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1,395,316,979 in 2015), Black Panther ($1,334,157,082 in 2018), Iron Man 3 ($1,214,630,956 in 2013), Captain America: Civil War ($1,151,899,586 in 2016), Spider-Man: Far From Home ($1,132,298,674 in 2019), Captain Marvel ($1,129,576,094 in 2019), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($952,224,986 in 2022) |
2
Francine Maisler
| Best known as a Casting Director based on credits in that role in 92 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($1,045,713,802 in 2011), Spider-Man 3 ($896,337,268 in 2007), The Amazing Spider-Man ($758,576,824 in 2012), Mufasa: The Lion King ($722,618,595 in 2024), Dune: Part Two ($715,206,195 in 2024), Hancock ($624,234,272 in 2008), Fifty Shades of Grey ($570,794,950 in 2015), The Revenant ($532,938,302 in 2015), Jason Bourne ($416,168,316 in 2016), The Mummy ($409,953,905 in 2017) |
3
Jane Jenkins
| Best known as a Casting Director based on credits in that role in 120 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Jurassic Park ($1,058,454,230 in 1993), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($962,575,067 in 2001), The Da Vinci Code ($767,820,459 in 2006), Transformers ($708,272,592 in 2007), The Lost World: Jurassic Park ($618,638,999 in 1997), Casino Royale ($594,420,216 in 2006), Ghost ($517,599,988 in 1990), Angels & Demons ($490,875,846 in 2009), Mrs. Doubtfire ($441,286,003 in 1993), Die Another Day ($431,942,139 in 2002) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | Worldwide Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah Halley Finn | $31,385,780,536 | 64 | $490,402,821 |
| 2 | Francine Maisler | $14,994,231,079 | 92 | $162,980,773 |
| 3 | Jane Jenkins | $14,190,012,743 | 120 | $118,250,106 |
| 4 | Janet Hirshenson | $14,141,902,498 | 115 | $122,973,065 |
| 5 | John Papsidera | $13,388,891,526 | 71 | $188,575,937 |
| 6 | Debra Zane | $12,743,098,353 | 45 | $283,179,963 |
| 7 | Nina Gold | $12,352,493,306 | 69 | $179,021,642 |
| 8 | Leslee Feldman | $12,078,411,164 | 30 | $402,613,705 |
| 9 | Denise Chamian | $11,664,449,765 | 55 | $212,080,905 |
| 10 | Kevin Reher | $11,134,952,298 | 16 | $695,934,519 |
| 11 | Mary Vernieu | $10,921,476,893 | 136 | $80,304,977 |
| 12 | Natalie Lyon | $9,567,416,354 | 14 | $683,386,882 |
| 13 | Ronna Kress | $8,950,785,958 | 54 | $165,755,296 |
| 14 | Lucy Bevan | $8,881,103,222 | 37 | $240,029,817 |
| 15 | Fiona Weir | $8,463,299,334 | 31 | $273,009,656 |
| 16 | Deborah Aquila | $8,431,650,375 | 75 | $112,422,005 |
| 17 | John Hubbard | $7,910,950,787 | 32 | $247,217,212 |
| 18 | Margery Simkin | $7,735,577,271 | 25 | $309,423,091 |
| 19 | Mary Hidalgo | $7,470,444,410 | 21 | $355,735,448 |
| 20 | Tricia Wood | $7,128,300,918 | 64 | $111,379,702 |
| 21 | Lucinda Syson | $6,864,999,041 | 32 | $214,531,220 |
| 22 | April Webster | $6,736,460,590 | 13 | $518,189,276 |
| 23 | Jeanne McCarthy | $6,613,704,166 | 67 | $98,712,002 |
| 24 | Mali Finn | $6,499,891,471 | 24 | $270,828,811 |
| 25 | Rich Delia | $5,970,584,898 | 53 | $112,652,545 |
| 26 | Ellen Lewis | $5,926,105,516 | 40 | $148,152,638 |
| 27 | David Rubin | $5,913,160,481 | 34 | $173,916,485 |
| 28 | Avy Kaufman | $5,874,072,359 | 117 | $50,205,747 |
| 29 | Roger Mussenden | $5,732,187,040 | 27 | $212,303,224 |
| 30 | Jina Jay | $5,475,905,519 | 48 | $114,081,365 |
| 31 | Mindy Marin | $5,449,200,071 | 32 | $170,287,502 |
| 32 | Christian Kaplan | $5,392,278,418 | 14 | $385,162,744 |
| 33 | Anne McCarthy | $5,261,583,205 | 43 | $122,362,400 |
| 34 | Alyssa Weisberg | $5,203,152,166 | 11 | $473,013,833 |
| 35 | Christi Soper | $5,087,486,714 | 14 | $363,391,908 |
| 36 | Randi Hiller | $4,996,427,730 | 28 | $178,443,848 |
| 37 | Allison Jones | $4,842,778,470 | 44 | $110,063,147 |
| 38 | Priscilla John | $4,842,183,587 | 16 | $302,636,474 |
| 39 | Lindsay Graham | $4,670,486,535 | 41 | $113,914,306 |
| 40 | Amanda Mackey | $4,457,660,040 | 54 | $82,549,260 |
| 41 | Victoria Burrows | $4,389,968,053 | 19 | $231,050,950 |
| 42 | Jamie Sparer Roberts | $4,360,331,713 | 7 | $622,904,530 |
| 43 | Victoria Thomas | $4,211,968,785 | 42 | $100,284,971 |
| 44 | Ellen Chenoweth | $4,144,662,179 | 37 | $112,017,897 |
| 45 | Susie Figgis | $4,074,889,343 | 20 | $203,744,467 |
| 46 | Kerry Barden | $3,992,624,575 | 98 | $40,741,067 |
| 47 | Juel Bestrop | $3,919,157,519 | 28 | $139,969,911 |
| 48 | Cathy Sandrich | $3,877,369,468 | 49 | $79,129,989 |
| 49 | Douglas Aibel | $3,695,684,386 | 57 | $64,836,568 |
| 50 | Lora Kennedy | $3,588,130,010 | 14 | $256,295,001 |
| 51 | Terri Taylor | $3,585,415,926 | 40 | $89,635,398 |
| 52 | Debbie McWilliams | $3,543,276,909 | 12 | $295,273,076 |
| 53 | Kathy Driscoll-Mohler | $3,477,251,724 | 16 | $217,328,233 |
| 54 | Billy Hopkins | $3,474,347,559 | 37 | $93,901,285 |
| 55 | Ruth Lambert | $3,429,224,871 | 14 | $244,944,634 |
| 56 | Kathleen Chopin | $3,421,936,424 | 19 | $180,101,917 |
| 57 | Kristy Carlson | $3,377,883,566 | 8 | $422,235,446 |
| 58 | Kate Dowd | $3,339,852,967 | 20 | $166,992,648 |
| 59 | Scot Boland | $3,228,187,163 | 14 | $230,584,797 |
| 60 | Nicole Abellera | $3,202,906,367 | 28 | $114,389,513 |
| 61 | Coreen Mayrs | $3,142,775,311 | 23 | $136,642,405 |
| 62 | Lisa Beach | $3,075,142,182 | 23 | $133,701,834 |
| 63 | Amy Hubbard | $3,035,281,686 | 12 | $252,940,141 |
| 64 | Joseph Middleton | $3,004,884,451 | 19 | $158,151,813 |
| 65 | Heike Brandstatter | $2,822,524,659 | 20 | $141,126,233 |
| 66 | Sarah Katzman | $2,717,035,099 | 18 | $150,946,394 |
| 67 | Liz Mullane | $2,716,276,680 | 7 | $388,039,526 |
| 68 | Ann Robinson | $2,677,546,394 | 6 | $446,257,732 |
| 69 | Mike Fenton | $2,635,630,237 | 28 | $94,129,651 |
| 70 | Mary Selway | $2,553,049,400 | 11 | $232,095,400 |
| 71 | Dianne Crittenden | $2,536,265,272 | 11 | $230,569,570 |
| 72 | Justine Baddeley | $2,529,052,095 | 17 | $148,767,770 |
| 73 | Sheila Jaffe | $2,480,949,454 | 36 | $68,915,263 |
| 74 | Bonnie Timmermann | $2,459,080,219 | 18 | $136,615,568 |
| 75 | Rachel Tenner | $2,433,847,258 | 13 | $187,219,020 |
| 76 | Richard Hicks | $2,414,722,667 | 25 | $96,588,907 |
| 77 | Kim Davis-Wagner | $2,365,446,104 | 20 | $118,272,305 |
| 78 | Nikki Barrett | $2,323,472,680 | 35 | $66,384,934 |
| 79 | Matthew Jon Beck | $2,239,927,413 | 5 | $447,985,483 |
| 80 | Paul Schnee | $2,226,539,478 | 85 | $26,194,582 |
| 81 | Carmen Cuba | $2,169,982,040 | 30 | $72,332,735 |
| 82 | Kellie Roy | $2,129,038,346 | 24 | $88,709,931 |
| 83 | Juliet Taylor | $2,121,769,059 | 20 | $106,088,453 |
| 84 | Suzanne Smith | $2,016,473,985 | 23 | $87,672,782 |
| 85 | Christine King | $2,010,919,551 | 10 | $201,091,955 |
| 86 | Dan Hubbard | $1,930,155,891 | 27 | $71,487,255 |
| 87 | Marci Liroff | $1,925,621,928 | 14 | $137,544,423 |
| 88 | Ros Hubbard | $1,907,024,006 | 21 | $90,810,667 |
| 89 | Reg Poerscout-Edgerton | $1,866,982,591 | 19 | $98,262,242 |
| 90 | Ilene Starger | $1,846,254,028 | 9 | $205,139,336 |
| 91 | Laray Mayfield | $1,838,351,499 | 12 | $153,195,958 |
| 92 | Nancy Nayor | $1,831,487,124 | 42 | $43,606,836 |
| 93 | Gail Stevens | $1,827,516,613 | 19 | $96,185,085 |
| 94 | Amy MacLean | $1,816,560,547 | 2 | $908,280,274 |
| 95 | Robin D. Cook | $1,745,333,107 | 15 | $116,355,540 |
| 96 | Marcia Ross | $1,717,549,060 | 14 | $122,682,076 |
| 97 | Robin Gurland | $1,703,215,568 | 3 | $567,738,523 |
| 98 | Marisol Roncali | $1,659,213,775 | 15 | $110,614,252 |
| 99 | Nancy Foy | $1,657,734,387 | 17 | $97,513,787 |
| 100 | Shauna Wolifson | $1,632,159,051 | 3 | $544,053,017 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.