Biography
Kim Coleman is a Los Angeles-based Casting Director known for her work in Film and Television. She is a two-time Emmy nominee for her casting work on the acclaimed Emmy-nominated television show American Crime (ABC) created by John Ridley and most recently Emmy-nominated drama series Lovecraft Country (HBO) . Some of her past television credits are Dear White People, She's Gotta Have It! (Netflix) , Snowfall (F/X) pilot, The Good Doctor (ABC) pilot and season 1, Greenleaf, The Haves and the Have Nots, If Loving You Is Wrong (OWN), and Survivor's Remorse (Starz). Her latest television work includes series Genius: Aretha (Nat/Geo), Lovecraft Country (HBO), The Good Lord Bird (Showtime), Wu-Tang: an American Saga (Hulu), The Upshaws, Madam C.J. Walker, Family Reunion (Netflix), Black Mafia Family, Run the World, Heels (Starz), Delilah, Kings of Napa (OWN), and Woke (Hulu).
She has received 3 Artios Awards from the Casting Society of America for excellence in casting for her work on Dope, Dear White People and most recently, Spike Lee's Oscar winning film BlacKkKlansman. Her most recent feature films include I Wanna Dance with Somebody (TriStar Pictures), Da 5 Bloods, They Cloned Tyrone, Hustle, End of the Road (Netflix), Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros.), Fatherhood (Sony), Harriet (Focus Features), Night School, Little, Beast, Praise This (Universal), Cheaper by the Dozen (20th Century Studios). She also casts all television and feature films for the prolific writer, producer, director Tyler Perry.
She is a Television Academy governor for the Casting Director's Branch as well as a newly elected governor of the Casting Director's Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is on the Academy Museum Inclusion Advisory Committee and the Task Force Committee representing Casting Directors.
