Nina Gold

Nina Gold is a British casting director known for her work on the HBO series Rome and Game of Thrones, the Netflix series The Crown, and the Sky Studios series The Day of the Jackal. She has also worked as casting director in films such as Les Misérables, The Martian, The Two Popes, Conclave, and five films in the Star Wars franchise. At the 98th Academy Awards, Gold received a nomination for the inaugural Academy Award for Achievement in Casting for the 2025 film Hamnet.

Career Gold began casting while at university, studying at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Her first casting job was to recruit extras for an AC/DC music video. After spending several years casting for music videos and commercials, Gold cast a McDonald's commercial directed by Mike Leigh in 1992. Seven years later, Leigh hired Gold to cast Topsy-Turvy, her first major film. Gold has been responsible for the casting of roles in seven of Mike Leigh's films since 1999.

After casting the HBO series Rome, Gold was hired in 2009 by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss to cast a new HBO series, Game of Thrones, alongside Robert Sterne. She cast the Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, released in 2024. Gold worked on casting the Sky–HBO miniseries, Chernobyl. .

In 2026, Gold was nominated for the inaugural Academy Award for Achievement in Casting for the 2025 film Hamnet. That same year, it was announced by Amazon MGM Studios that she had been hired as casting director for the untitled 26th James Bond film and would lead the search for the next actor to portray the eponymous character following Daniel Craig.

Personal life Gold's partner is Frank Hewetson, a logistics coordinator for Greenpeace. They have two children together.

Filmography

Selected television credits Year Television show Notes 2005–2007 Rome 22 episodes 2008 John Adams Miniseries 2011–2019 Game of Thrones 73 episodes 2015 Wolf Hall Miniseries 2016–2019 The Crown 30 episodes 2017 Taboo 8 episodes 2017 Top of the Lake 6 episodes 2018 Patrick Melrose 5 episodes 2019 Chernobyl Miniseries 2021 The Nevers 7 episodes 2021 Landscapers 4 episodes 2021 This Is Going to Hurt 7 episodes 2022–2024 Bad Sisters 18 episodes 2022 Andor 24 episodes 2022–2024 Slow Horses 24 episodes 2024 Baby Reindeer Miniseries 2024–present 3 Body Problem 8 episodes 2024–present The Day of the Jackal 10 episodes

Selected film credits Year Film 1997 The Borrowers 1999 Topsy-Turvy 2000 Love's Labour's Lost 2000 Beautiful Creatures 2000 Rat 2001 Triumph of Love 2001 The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife 2001 The 51st State 2002 All or Nothing 2002 Max 2002 The Final Curtain 2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers 2004 De-Lovely 2004 Vera Drake 2005 Sahara 2006 The Illusionist 2006 Amazing Grace 2007 The Good Night 2007 Hot Fuzz 2007 Mr. Bean's Holiday 2007 Eastern Promises 2008 The Other Man 2008 Happy-Go-Lucky 2009 Nowhere Boy 2009 Bright Star 2009 A Christmas Carol 2010 Barney's Version 2010 Another Year 2010 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 2010 The King's Speech 2011 Jane Eyre 2011 Attack the Block 2011 The Iron Lady 2012 Prometheus 2012 Les Misérables 2013 The World's End 2013 Rush 2013 The Counselor 2014 Mr. Turner 2014 The Imitation Game 2014 The Theory of Everything 2014 A Little Chaos 2014 Paddington 2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings 2015 The Danish Girl 2015 The Martian 2015 Burnt 2015 In the Heart of the Sea 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2016 The BFG 2016 Bridget Jones's Baby 2016 Inferno 2016 Allied 2017 On Chesil Beach 2017 Disobedience 2017 Paddington 2 2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 The Children Act 2018 Annihilation 2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 2019 The Kid Who Would Be King 2019 The Two Popes 2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019 1917 2020 The Courier 2020 Misbehaviour 2020 Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga 2020 Rebecca 2021 The Mauritanian 2021 The Power of the Dog 2021 Last Night in Soho 2022 Morbius 2022 Jurassic World: Dominion 2022 The Wonder 2022 Empire of Light 2022 Catherine Called Birdy 2023 Wonka 2024 Spaceman 2024 Scoop 2024 Back to Black 2024 Blitz 2024 Conclave 2024 Eden 2025 Jay Kelly 2025 Hamnet 2026 The Great Beyond 2027 Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

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