Carmen Cuba is an Emmy-award-winning casting director known for casting Stranger Things kids.
Similarly, she is known for casting actors in films and tv shows like Mrs. America, Behind the Candelabra, Magic Mike, and The Martian.
So how much does a casting director make? What is her net worth?
Reportedly, she is married and has two children-who is her husband? We have all the details of her personal and professional life here.
Personal Life: Age, Husband, Children
Carmen Cuba was born on March 3, 1969, in Lima, Peru. As of July 2022, she is 53-year-old and stands at an average height.
She was born to an American mother of Italian, Dutch, and English descent, and to a Peruvian father, who was a political economist for the U.N.
If we believe the sources, the star-maker, Cuba, is married and has two kids.
However, there are no details of her husband and kids. She lives a very private life, and almost nothing related to her family background has been made public.
Casting Director: Carmen Cuba
Though Carmen is active on social media, there are only work-related posts.
Did you know? She was studying journalism when she was spotted in an elevator and was offered to work on the docu-series "The Real World." The rest is history.
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What Is The Net Worth Of Carmen Cuba?
Carmen Cuba's net worth is around $5 million. She has been working as a casting director since 1995 and owns a company named Carmen Cuba Casting.
According to PayScale, a casting director earns $78,000 per year, including a base salary of $44k-$121k and a bonus of $323-$20k.
Similarly, as per Glassdoor, they can make $71,996 annually with $57,197 base pay and $14,800 additional pay.
Carmen Cuba is worth between $5 million to $10 million as of 2022.
Likewise, Netflix usually pays between $132K-$146K to their casting directors.
We can assume that Cuba earns similar to or more than the given range from all the provided figures.
She has been working in the industry for decades and has won many awards, including an Emmy.
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Career Highlights: Worked On Mrs. America, Stranger Things, Behind the Candelabra, The Adam Project
Carmen Cuba started her career working as a behind-the-scenes intern in the TV reality series The Real World.
She then worked with famous casting director Margery Simkin on movies like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Erin Brockovich.
After working for a few years under Simkin, Cuba began her career as a casting director in 1995 on the tv series Road Rules.
Over the years, she worked in movies and television shows like King of the Korner, Totally Hoops, The Real Roseanne Show, Bubble, Youth Knows No Pain, Youth Knows No Pain and others.
In 2013, talented Cuba cast actors in Behind the Candelabra. The movie, based on the life of pianist Liberace, starred actors like Michael Douglas as Liberace, Matt Damon as Scott Thorson, and Dan Aykroyd as Seymour Heller.
She won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting For A Miniseries, Movie, Or Special film.
Later, Carmen worked on Beyond Memories, Beyond the Reach, Looking, Sense8, Magic Mike XXL, The Knick, etc.
In 2017, Cuba cast the kids on Netflix's series Stranger Things, for which she won yet another Emmy for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series and received a nomination the following year.
Carmen Cuba attending the 2019 Emmy red carpet-she owns two and has received four Emmy nominations over the years
Her casting was praised by the millions as each, and every kid (Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, and Sadie Sink) were outstanding in the role and gave perfect justice to the character.
When asked about the casting process, the perfectionist Cuba said:
I like both for different reasons. I love the intimacy of what an actor can do with a self-tape; the choices they make without direction can be really fascinating. But I also love reading in person because it gives me a chance to work the scene out in a few different ways and gives me a sense of the actor's approach.
She further added:
If I like someone from a self-tape and they don't live here, I will usually set up a Skype to get more of a sense about him/her before taking the next step.
Carmen then went to work on movies and series like The Laundromat, Vida, Queen & Slim, We Are Who We Are, Sweet Tooth, David Makes Man, and The Matrix Resurrections.
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She also worked on Mrs. America, which gave her another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Casting For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special - 2020.
We also saw her magic in The Adam Project when she introduced Walker Scobell as mini Ryan Reynolds.
The personality and energy resemblance between the two was unmissable. As per the director, Cuba auditioned 376 kids in her search for the perfect actor.
"Even when somebody doesn't look exactly like the person, if they have an energy about them that's similar, you almost start to believe that they look like them. [Walker] had an energy that was very similar to Ryan's, which is a hard thing to match. It's the sort of a thing that you can't teach someone how to do."
In like manner, some of her other works include Magic Mike's Last Dance, Scandalous!, The Acolyte, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Power, and others.
