Matt Western
Casting Director
Matt Western trained as an assistant casting director for 5 years and was involved in many high end drama productions for film and television, including the iconic last episode of the Inspector Morse series (The Remorseful Day), numerous episodes of A Touch of Frost, The Sins (with Pete Postlethwaite and Frank Finley), Uncle Silas (series) with Albert Finney and The Princess of Thieves – the first major role for Keira Knightly. Since 2000 Matt has worked as an independent freelance Casting Director, continuing to work on numerous prestige projects including Hear the Silence with Juliet Stevenson, Class of 76 with Robert Carlyle and Affinity with Anna Massey and Amanda Plummer. Recent feature projects include The Holding (with Kierson Wareing, David Bradley and Vincent Regan), Ways To Live Forever (with Ben Chaplin and Greta Scacchi) and Wasteland (with Luke Treadaway, Iwan Rheon and Tim Spall). Matt was the UK Casting Director for Paul Verhoeven on Zwartboek.
