Nina Gold

Nina Gold is a British casting director known for her work on the HBO series Rome and Game of Thrones, the Netflix series The Crown, and the Sky Studios series The Day of the Jackal (2024). She has also worked as casting director in films such as Les Misérables, The Martian, The Two Popes, Conclave, and five films in the Star Wars franchise*.* At the 98th Academy Awards, Gold received a nomination for the inaugural Academy Award for Achievement in Casting for the 2025 film Hamnet.

Gold began casting while at university, studying at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Her first casting job was to recruit extras for an AC/DC music video. After spending several years casting for music videos and commercials, Gold cast a McDonald's commercial directed by Mike Leigh in 1992. Seven years later, Leigh hired Gold to cast Topsy-Turvy, her first major film. Gold has been responsible for the casting of roles in seven of Mike Leigh's films since 1999.

After casting the HBO series Rome, Gold was hired in 2009 by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss to cast a new HBO series, Game of Thrones, alongside Robert Sterne. She cast the Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, released in 2024. Gold worked on casting the Sky–HBO miniseries, Chernobyl..

In 2026, Gold was nominated for the inaugural Academy Award for Achievement in Casting for the 2025 film Hamnet. That same year, it was announced by Amazon MGM Studios that she had been hired as casting director for the untitled 26th James Bond film and would lead the search for the next actor to portray the eponymous character following Daniel Craig.

Gold's partner is Frank Hewetson, a logistics coordinator for Greenpeace. They have two children together.

• Nina Gold at IMDb