TV casting director Vicki Rosenberg Suchin passed away in her sleep of natural causes on Tuesday, March 8 in her Tarzana home. She was 59. Suchin was a casting director who, over 25 years, cast hundreds of pilots, series and telepics with a list that includes Taxi, Who's the Boss, Married...With Children and Judging Amy. She began her casting career working with Linda Otto and Joan Barnett in 1976 before moving on to NBC Network Casting. She then worked for Paramount Television Casting and ultimately landed at Columbia TriStar Television as Evp of Casting. She was the wife of personal manager Milt Suchin, who survives her along with her son Zachary Suchin, an Internet entrepreneur. She leaves behind two brothers, Imagine Entertainment president Michael Rosenberg and Robert Rosenberg. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations to be made to Pug Nation Rescue of Los Angeles.
- 3/21/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Vicki Rosenberg Suchin, a casting director of more than 25 years, passed away in her sleep at her Tarzana, Calif., home on March 8. She was 59. According to a spokesman for Suchin's family, she died of natural causes. Suchin had worked at NBC, Paramount Television and, ultimately, Columbia Tri-Star Television, where she served as executive vice president of casting. The long list of series, TV movies and pilots that Suchin had cast includes "Taxi," "Who's the Boss." "Married With Children" and "Judging Amy." More recently, Suchin had started her own company, Off the...
- 3/21/2011
- The Wrap
Casting director Jami Rudofsky has one word of advice for the auditioning actor: relax. "Don't be nervous," she says with a laugh. "I'm a totally regular person. I'm there to help you get the job." Rudofsky can also empathize with the jittery performers sitting across from her: She was once an aspiring actor, studying theatre at UCLA. "About halfway through, I realized that it wasn't the path I wanted to take," she says. "I didn't like auditioning. I knew I wasn't going to be successful as an actress, but I really loved acting, so I wanted to find something that was like it." An internship with CD Vicki Rosenberg (Bones, Joan of Arcadia) set Rudofsky on a new career track. She fell in love with the casting process, started working in the industry the day after graduation, and hasn't looked back. These days she has nearly a decade and a half of casting experience,...
- 10/20/2008
- by Sarah Kuhn
- backstage.com
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