Mark Fincannon

About Mark Fincannon

Who is it?: Casting Department, Casting Director, Actor
Birth Day: May 8, 1958
Birth Place: Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Height: 6' (1.83 m)

Mark Fincannon

A native North Carolinian, Mark received a Batchelor of Arts degree from Catawba College with a double major in Theatre...
Mark Fincannon is a member of Casting Department

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Popular As Mark Fincannon
Occupation Casting Department
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born May 8, 1958 (Greensboro, North Carolina, USA)
Birthday May 8
Town/City Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Nationality USA

🌙 Zodiac

Mark Fincannon’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Mark Fincannon was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.

A native North Carolinian, Mark received a Batchelor of Arts degree from Catawba College with a double major in Theatre Arts and Speech Communication. In the early 1980's, having performed as an actor and director in many productions in High school and College, Mark chose to step behind the camera to work with producers and directors in finding the acting talent that they needed to successfully produce films and commercials on location in the Southeastern U.

S.A.Now, a veteran casting director of 39 years, Mark owns, along with his brother Craig, Fincannon and Associates, Inc. a motion picture casting company started by the brothers in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1980.

The brothers moved their company to Wilmington, NC in 1983 to accommodate the casting needs for the newly merging De Laurentiis Entertainment Group studios founded by legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis.

Mark is also the President of Luminarium Pictures, LLC a film production company with several films in development. Mark now resides in Fayetteville, Georgia overseeing the affairs of their Atlanta office.

Mark and his company have worked with such legendary directors as Steven Spielberg, Taylor Hackford, William Friedkin, David Lynch, and George Lucas to name a few. They have been responsible for casting over 200 feature films, 100 television movie of the weeks, 15 television mini - series and thousands of hours of television series.

Mark is a member of the Academy of Television of Arts & Sciences after winning an Emmy for his work on Tom Hank's H.B.O. series "From the Earth to the Moon." Among some of his most notable television work he cast "Matlock", "Dawson's Creek", "One Tree Hill", "Nashville", "MacGyver" and the "The Resident".

A few of his other most notable films are "Ray", "The Prince of Tides", "Glory Road", "Miracles from Heaven" and "The Blindside." His greatest challenge to date was from his work on "End of the Spear", the historical film about the Woadani Indians of Ecuador who savagely murdered 5 missionaries in the early 1950's.

He successfully discovered, cast and trained indigenous Indians from Panama to portray the Woadani Indians.

Mark Fincannon Movies

  • The Blind Side (2009) as Casting Department
  • End of the Spear (2005) as Casting Department
  • From the Earth to the Moon (1998) as Casting Department
  • The Prince of Tides (1991) as Casting Department

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