Susan Bluestein

Susan Bluestein (born May 27, 1946) is an Emmy Award-winning American casting director and the widow of actor Brad Davis.

Born in Manhattan and raised in the borough of Queens [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950CE2DF143FF935A25757C0A961958260 "For the Widow Of Brad Davis, Time Cannot Heal All the Wounds" by Alex Witchel, "New York Times", April 16, 1997] ] , Bluestein has spent much of her career casting television movies, including "The People vs. Jean Harris", "A Piano for Mrs. Cimino", "", and "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All". She cast multiple episodes of the series "Providence" and "JAG" and has cast every episode of "NCIS" since its premiere.

In 1995, Bluestein won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting for her work on "NYPD Blue".

Bluestein's feature film casting credits include "Crimes of the Heart", "Who's Harry Crumb?", and "". Her most recent projects are the 2008 BBC/HBO docudrama "House of Saddam" and "Dilli 6", scheduled for release in 2009.

Bluestein and Davis were married in 1979 and had one child, Alexandra. In 1985, Davis contracted AIDS, a condition the couple kept secret until just prior to his death by assisted suicide. Shortly after his passing she wrote the memoir "After Midnight: The Life and Death of Brad Davis" with Hilary De Vries. Bluestein continues to be an AIDS activist.

Her company, Susan Bluestein Casting, is based in Los Angeles [ [http://www.la411.com/company-Susan%20Bluestein%20Casting&lid-3605123.htm LA411.com] ] .

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External links

[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089578/ Susan Bluestein at Internet Movie Database]