Susan Bluestein


Susan Davis is an American casting director and the widow of actor Brad Davis.

Biography

Born in Manhattan and raised in Queens, New York, Bluestein has spent much of her career casting television movies, including The People vs. Jean Harris, A Piano for Mrs. Cimino, ', and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. She cast multiple episodes of the series Punky Brewster, Providence and JAG and has cast every episode of NCIS and ' since their premieres.
Bluestein's casting credits for feature films include Crimes of the Heart, Who's Harry Crumb?, and . Other recent projects are the 2008 BBC/HBO docudrama House of Saddam and Dilli 6.

Awards

Bluestein won the Emmy Award in 1995 for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting for her work on NYPD Blue
In 2014, NCIS star Pauley Perrette presented Bluestein and her casting partner, Jason Kennedy, the Media Access Casting Society of America Award for their work promoting awareness of the disability experience, accessibility for people with disabilities, and the accurate depiction of characters with disabilities.

Family

Bluestein and Davis were married in 1976 and had one child, Alex, a transgender man. In 1985, Davis was diagnosed HIV-positive, a condition the couple kept secret until just before his death by assisted suicide in 1991. Shortly after his death, she co-authored the memoir After Midnight: The Life and Death of Brad Davis with Hilary De Vries.

Casting filmography