Margery Simkin has cast such films as BEVERLY HILLS COP, TOP GUN, BRAZIL, FIELD OF DREAMS, TWELVE MONKEYS, ERIN BROCKOVICH, MARLEY & ME, PACIFIC RIM, AVATAR and its upcoming sequels. She is currently casting the TV series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY and its spinoff STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS as well as well as an animated one hour drama for Netflix entitled BLUE EYE SAMURAI. In the course of her career she has given early opportunities to such actors as Tom Cruise, Laura Dern, Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey Jr., Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Queen Latifah, Natalie Portman and Sam Worthington.

Based in Los Angeles, Ms. Simkin has had the privilege of working with many great directors including Terry Gilliam, Frank Oz, Danny DeVito, David Frankel, Guillermo Del Toro, James Cameron and Richard LaGravenese. Ms. Simkin has served for many years on the Executive Committee of the Oscars’ Foreign Film (now International) Award. She served on the Board of Directors of the Dublin International Film Festival, the jury of Krakow’s Off Camera Film Festival, and been a panelist at the International Media Forum in Kiev and SCAD Savannah Film Festival among other festivals.