Mali Finn

Mali Finn ( born Mary Alice Mann, born March 8, 1938 in Danville, Illinois, USA, † November 28, 2007 in Sonoma, California, United States) was an American casting director.

Biography

Mali Finn, though born in Illinois grew and later in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she graduated from the University of Minnesota, where she received her degree in theater arts. Finn initially took the profession of teacher of English and drama at a school in Holland, Michigan. Here she met the casting agent Don Finn, whom she married, and introduced them in the matter of the selection process in film and television.

In the early 1980s the couple moved, the parents of their son was, in Newport Beach California. 1987 Finn headed the casting for her first feature film, the television movie American Harvest. However, the breakthrough as a casting agent Finn achieved only in 1991, when she, the actor for Terminator 2 - Judgment Day committed.

In the course of her two-decade career Finn headed the casting to about 90 feature films and in 2004 even the selection of the TV series Wonderfalls. Well-known films, the disaster drama Titanic, The Green Mile, 1999, 1997 and produced in 2002, K-19 - Showdown in the depth. Finn's last film was the historical epic The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford be.

In 2006, Finn became ill with skin cancer, she died in Sonoma in November 2007, at the age of 69 years, at her home.