The Orange Rising Star Award
Mary Selway
“I believe Mary’s unique contribution to this industry will continue to have as significant an impact in the future as it has in the past. above all, she achieved these many accomplishments with an extraordinary sense of humour and contagious love of life. I miss her.”Daniel Craig
the inspiration
The Orange Rising Star Award has been created in honour of the late Mary Selway, the highly-respected BAFTA-winning casting director who died in 2004.
While little known outside the film industry, Mary is something of a legend within it.
In a career spanning three decades, she worked closely with directors such as Stephen Spielberg, Roman Polanski, Clint Eastwood and Ridley Scott.
She worked on some of the biggest movies of the twentieth century, from Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones, Withnail and I and Aliens, right up to Love Actually, Master and Commander and Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire.
Casting for over ninety films, she helped create some of the silver screen’s most memorable characters and launched the careers of many stars.
She is dearly missed.