Ollie Gilbert and Katy Covell are 2026 Emmy Award-winning casting directors working across Film, Television and Commercials in the UK and Internationally.

Recent film credits include The Primrose Railway Children (BBC Studios), for which we won 2026 Emmy for Outstanding Casting, with Ava Joyce-McCarthy also receiving an Emmy nomination for Best Young Performer; Echolalic (Erebus Pictures), which will feature in the 2026 London Film Festival’s Works-in-Progress programme; Dust (A Private View), which premiered in the Main Competition at Berlinale 2026; Raging Grace (Last Conker) winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Best Debut Feature at SXSW; Sebastian (Bêtes Sauvages) which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and earned Ruaridh Mollica a BAFTA Scotland nomination & BIFA nomination for Best Breakthrough Performance; and Obey (Harvest Pictures), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and earned Marcus Rutherford a BIFA nomination for Most Promising Newcomer.

2027 will see the release of feature films A Visit to Grandpa’s (Sir Anthony Hopkins & Catherine Zeta Jones), In Starland (Clarence Maclin), No Way Off (Maria Bakalova) and Mountain (Peter Mullan)

Current development work includes projects with American Zoetrope (Priscilla), Fine Point Films (Kneecap), Stigma Films (Muscle), Mad As Birds (Madfabulous) and Capture (T.I.M)

What sets Gilbert and Covell apart is our ability to combine over 15 years of experience across studio films, independent features and television drama with an unwavering commitment to searching beyond the established talent pool. Delivering authenticity and integrity in casting is central to our ethos. As specialists in street casting, we have cultivated trusted relationships with schools, community groups and charities across the UK.

Our careers began on major studio productions including Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Doctor Strange (Marvel Studios); Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Twentieth Century Fox); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (Warner Bros); The Commuter (StudioCanal); and 55 Steps(Sony Pictures).