Olivia Scott-Webb

Olivia Scott-Webb is and award-winning Casting Director. She won the 2021 Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting Limited Series for Scott Frank’s Netflix series The Queen's Gambit. She also won the 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for A Comedy Series for her work on the second season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s hit comedy Fleabag. Olivia’s further recent casting credits include Oscar-winning director James Marsh’s forthcoming Samuel Beckett biopic Dance First starring Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea; and the forthcoming Lionsgate feature Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas. Olivia casts all of Joanna Hogg’s feature films and has recently cast The Eternal Daughter and The Souvenir Part I and II starring Tilda Swinton. She is currently working with Scott Frank on his new Netflix series Department Q and has also recently cast Fleur Fortune’s debut feature The Assessment for Number 9 films, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander. Olivia cast Neil Forsyth’s BBC One series The Gold which follows the fallout from the infamous 1980s Brinks Mat robbery, starring Jack Lowden and Hugh Bonneville. She is currently casting the second series.

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Dance First

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.

7.1

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2023

The Eternal Daughter

An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.

6.0

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2022

The Souvenir: Part II

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

6.5

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2021

Gunpowder Milkshake

To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.

6.3

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2021

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

7.0

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2021

Make Up

After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.

5.9

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2020

The Souvenir

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

6.1

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2019

Ashes in the Snow

The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.

6.6

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2018

Ibiza

She could do the responsible thing. Or she could go to Ibiza with her best friends to chase down a hot DJ. Easy choice.

5.7

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2018

The Mercy

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.

5.9

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2018

The Boy with the Topknot

Born to traditional Punjabi parents and growing up in Wolverhampton, Sathnam Sanghera moves to London after graduating from Cambridge University. Now in his late 20s he is planning to reveal to his family that he will defy expectations of an arranged marriage - but instead learns a painful family secret.

5.8

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2017

The Journey

Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.

6.3

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2017

The Last Dragonslayer

In a fantasy world where magic is being superceded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her destiny to become a dragonslayer.

6.0

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2016

The Limehouse Golem

A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.

6.2

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2016

Kids in Love

Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course.

5.8

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2016

Shelter

Netherlands, 1944 - When three wounded British Paratroopers find themselves behind enemy lines, they take shelter in a remote cottage inhabited by a Dutch mother and daughter. What seemed to be a safe hiding place quickly becomes a deadly prison, and the three men not only have to face the German enemy, but also their worst inner demons.

0.0

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2014

Field Punishment No.1

In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientious objectors to the Western Front in an attempt to convert, silence, or quite possibly kill them. This is their story.

8.0

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2014

Exhibition

An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.

5.1

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2013

Having You

Jack has finally managed to propose to his infertile girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.

5.2

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2013