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SARAH LEUNG, CDG, BAFTA

Sarah was born in Manchester, coming from a mixed British/Chinese background, making her one of the only casting directors in the UK with Chinese heritage. She started her career in film as assistant to producer Larry Franco on "Batman Begins". Later asked to return on post-production as assistant to Emma Thomas (wife of director Christopher Nolan). From here, Sarah moved into casting, assisting in Film (Warner Bros, Universal) TV (BBC, ITV, C4), Theatre, West End, London.

Casting Director Film credits include:

Iteration, Joe Johnston (Captain America), Past Life, Simeon Halligan, Bjorn Of The Dead, Sara Sugarman (Save The Cinema), Croydon Cowgirl, Kellie Shirley, Chinaman (Peng Productions), Emily And The Magical Journey (Ovnell Film), Strangeways Here We Come (Collateral Films), Borderline (Born Wild), Alpine Zombie (Fischer Film), Act/Or (Stathi Productions). Rekindle (Original Feature Co), ‘K’ (All Enquiries) Music Land World (Onsight), Fortune Cookies (Reelscape), Woodhouse (Tread Softly), Life Lottery, Beanbag (Door 44 Films), Rekindle (Original Feature Co).

Casting assistant – Children Of Men (Universal), V For Vendetta (Warner Bros), Speed Racer (Warner Bros), Goal (Disney), Ninja Assassin (Warner Bros),

Casting Director Television includes:

Zayla (East/Sky), Too Good To Be True (East/Sky), The Boleyns (BBC), Red Dwarf (BBC), Inventions (Discovery Channel), Reagan (Discovery Channel),

Casting assistant - Luther 2 &3 (BBC), The Widower (ITV), What Remains (BBC), Frankie (BBC), May Day (Kudos/BBC), Homefront (ITV), Inside Men (BBC), Law & Order UK S1-6 (Kudos/ ITV), Just Henry (ITV), Waking The Dead (BBC), Waterloo Road 1V (BBC), Hope Springs (BBC), Life On Mars (BBC), Lilies (BBC), Shameless (C4).

Casting Director Theatre credits include:

Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse), JingleClaw (Birmingham Hippodrome), Unfortunate (London and UK Tour) (six nominations, Off West End awards, 2023)

Level Up (Workshop), Trueman And The Arsonists (Roundhouse London), To Wong Foo (Hope Mill Theatre) What’s On Stage Awards, Best Regional show, nominee 2024.

George Takei’s Allegiance (Charing Cross) (What’s On Stage Awards, Best Off West End show nominee 2024.

Corrie The Play (Lowry), Waiting For Godot, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ (Manchester Library Theatre)

Casting assistant - We Will Rock You (Dominion), Wicked (Apollo Victoria), Billy Elliot (Palace Theatre) Lion King (Lyceum) Dirty Dancing (Aldwych), Blueman Group (New London), Moving Out (Apollo Victoria), Acorn Antiques (Theatre Royal) The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and The Hypochondriac (Regents Park), Winslow Boy (Rose Theatre, London),

Other work includes:

Various music videos, commercials, short films.

Full member of BAFTA and the CDG. Jury for BAFTA best casting award 2024.

Sarah is a full member of BAFTA and she was chosen to be on the 2024 Jury panel for best Casting Director Award.

Sarah is also a full member of the CDG (Casting Director's Guild). https://www.thecdg.co.uk/members/sarah-2/

Sarah is represented by Mildred Yuen at www.mildredyuan.com