Georgianne Walken is an American casting director and the wife of American actor, director, singer, and writer Christopher Walken.
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The couple met while on tour with “West Side Story” in 1963, and the two began dating soon after. They married in 1969 and have been together ever since.
They decided not to have children, which Christopher Walken attributes to one of the reasons he has been able to maintain such a long and productive career of nonstop labour.
Since 1989, Georgianne Walken and her casting partner Sheila Jaffe of Walken/Jaffe have cast over 80 television episodes and films, including The Sopranos and Entourage.
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Georgianne Walken also appeared in a 2006 episode of The Sopranos and the 1983 picture Brainstorm alongside her husband Christopher Walken and the late Natalie Wood.
She has been nominated for nine Emmy Awards for her work as a casting director. Georgianne received her first and only Emmy in 1999 for best casting for a series for her work on The Sopranos.
Georgianne also had seven nominations for the Artios Awards, winning for The Sopranos in 2000 and Entourage in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
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