Speaker Details

Full Name
Anousha Zarkesh
Company
Anousha Zarkesh Casting
Title
Casting Director
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
AACTA and Casting Guild Award (CGA) winner, Anousha Zarkesh has been a Casting Director for over 25 years, specialising in Australian TV and film for a wide range of genres including political satire, drama, comedy, tele-movies, documentary series and film. Productions include: Firebite, Total Control, Rake, High Ground, Mystery Road, Sweet Country, Black Comedy, Operation Buffalo, Hounds of Love, Deep Water, Cleverman, The Principal, Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door, Redfern Now, Suburban Mayhem, Beautiful Kate, Underbelly Series, Mabo, Mary Bryant, Jasper Jones to name a few. Thomas Wright’s recent feature film, The Stranger, will be in competition in Uncertain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2022. Anousha is currently Vice President of the Casting Guild of Australia (CGA),Vice President of Screen Illawarra and an active member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the CGA.