Maggie Lunn

Maggie Lunn (born Margaret Hilary Lunn; 26 January 1961 – 19 February 2017)

Moving to casting in 1987, she was an assistant to the casting director Gill Titchmarsh, and later an agent at International Creative Management. In 1995 she was appointed head of casting at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2002, she joined Michael Attenborough at the Almeida Theatre as artistic associate. From 2001 to 2002 she was acting head of casting at the Royal National Theatre. With the Royal Shakespeare Company and later, she was interested in casting black and minority ethnic actors in roles usually regarded as white, notably David Oyelowo as the king in Shakespeare's Henry VI, at the RSC in 2001. This included the production of The Rivals at Bristol Old Vic in 2016 where the cast she put together was part of the success of the production. She worked with other theatre companies including the Young Vic, the Old Vic and the Chichester Festival Theatre.

On television, she was casting director for productions including Pride and Prejudice (1995), Cranford (2007) and Great Expectations (2011). In film, productions included Carrington (1995), Notes on a Scandal (2007) and Broken (2012). A Moon for the Misbegotten (2006) Old Vic, London Flare Path (2011) Haymarket, London Long Day's Journey Into Night (2016) Bristol Old Vic, Bristol

Films Carrington (1995) Funny Bones (1995) Archangel (2005) Broken (2012) Cranford (2007) (BBC series) (Emmy nomination)