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ABOUT
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She started at seventeen, answering the phones at A Country Practice. By twenty-five she had opened her own casting department, the youngest casting director in the country. By twenty-nine she had cast Cate Blanchett in Heartland, Simon Baker in E Street, and Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill in Frontier. The pattern was set early. Find the person before the rest of the room does, and trust the room to follow.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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She founded Toni Higginbotham Casting in Woollahra a little over twenty-five years ago. The practice now operates from Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast, and the same instinct still shapes every brief that crosses her desk.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Apple. Pepsi. Samsung. Mastercard. Qantas. CommBank. AAMI. AVIS. Nissan. OPSM. G.H. Mumm. Catch. Great Northern. MilkLab. BlueBet. Sydney Water. Australian Tourism. The brand list is long, and Toni has cast for most of them more than once<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Among these, two campaigns stand out. Apple’s First Dance<\/em>, a marriage equality film of real couples shot entirely on iPhone, made the week the country voted yes. AndThe Regulars<\/em> for Victoria Bitter. Toni worked with Droga5 Sydney on the first campaign in Australian history to win a Gold Pencil for Casting.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The film and television work runs alongside it. Netflix’s Sweet River<\/em>. Cruel Hands<\/em>, out this year. As well as a feature in pre-production between Sydney and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Recognition has come from Cannes, AWARD, Clio and Caxton.<\/p>\n

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Sydney
melbourne
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Three rooms across Australia. One in Sydney, one in Melbourne, one on the Gold Coast. The fourth, wherever the project needs her.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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