Nicola Chisholm
Nicola is a London-based Casting Director who has cast major festival features and high profile studio film & TV projects since launching her company just 5 years ago.
Significant indie features include Chloe Dumont's workplace thriller 'Fair Play' (Sundance / TIFF) starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich, as well as Florian Zeller’s complex family drama ‘The Son’ (Venice), starring Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern.
Nicola also collaborates regularly with American Casting Director Mary Vernieu and her team, and has worked alongside them on a number of big budget studio projects, including Netflix heist action comedy ‘Lift’, starring Kevin Hart and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sony/Marvel franchise films ‘Kraven the Hunter’ and ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ and forthcoming Amazon prequel TV series ‘The Terminal List: Dark Wolf’, a Navy Seal action thriller starring Chris Pratt and Taylor Kitsch. Nicola has cast directly out of several European and Eastern European countries in addition to the UK, with a particular focus on Spain, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia.
Nicola has also enjoyed working on projects based on popular works of fiction in the YA/rom-com area. She recently completed the UK and Spanish casting for upcoming Sony/Netflix film ‘People We Meet on Vacation’, produced by Temple Hill and based on the bestselling romance novel by Emily Henry. She also cast After We Fell and After Ever Happy starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Josephine Langford, based on the bestselling books by Anna Todd.
Earlier in her career she freelanced for several leading casting directors, working as an associate on the likes of 'The Queen's Gambit' and 'Fleabag' Season 2 (both of which won Emmy Awards for outstanding casting), and Joanna Hogg’s Award-winning improvisational drama ’The Souvenir’.
Feature Film
2026, Archangel, Director: William Eubank, Mandalay/Sony
2025, People We Meet on Vacation, Director: Brett Haley, Sony/Netflix
2025, Falling, Directors: James and Colin Krisel, Tempo Productions/Luber Roklin/Gulfstream
2024, Kraven the Hunter, Director: J.C Chandor, Sony/Marvel
2024, Venom: The Last Dance, Director: Kelly Marcel, Sony/Marvel (UK Casting Director)
2024, Lift, Director: F Gary Gray, Netflix
2023, Fair Play, Director: Chloe Domont, Netflix
2022, The Son, Director: Florian Zeller, See-Saw Films
2022, After Ever Happy, Director: Castille Landon, Voltage Pictures
2021, After We Fell, Director: Castille Landon, Voltage Pictures
Television
2026, Untitled Talk to Me XR Series, Director: Craig William Macneill, XRTV/Meta
2026, The Terminal List: True Believer, Directors: Various, Amazon (UK Casting Director)
2025, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, Directors: Various, Amazon
