Susan Bluestein

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

Biography

Born in Manhattan and raised in the borough of Queens,^[1] Bluestein has spent much of her career casting television movies, including The People vs. Jean Harris, A Piano for Mrs. Cimino, Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story, and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. She cast multiple episodes of the series Punky Brewster, Providence and JAG and has cast every episode of NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles since their premieres.

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 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. Other 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 (b. 1983). In 1985, Davis was diagnosed HIV-positive, a condition the couple kept secret until just prior to his death by assisted suicide in 1991.^[2] Shortly after his death she wrote the memoir After Midnight: The Life and Death of Brad Davis with Hilary De Vries. Bluestein continues to be an AIDS activist.

Casting Filmography

References

External links

• Susan Bluestein at Internet Movie Database
• For the Widow Of Brad Davis, Time Cannot Heal All the Wounds (NY Times