Jay Scully is an actor turned casting director who appeared as Lieutenant Chapin in Star Trek Into Darkness.
Scully previously worked as an actor in the recurring role of Lance in five episodes of J.J. Abrams' Undercovers in 2010. He teamed up again with Abrams with a supporting role in Super 8 in 2011 on which he also worked as dialogue coach. Super 8 also featured Michael Giacchino, Bruce Greenwood, Jack Axelrod, Amanda Foreman, Tony Guma, Jason Brooks, Tim Griffin, Marco Sanchez, Jonathan H. Dixon, Greg Grunberg, and Alex Nevil.
Scully started as an actor following three years of conservatory training. He got an M.F.A. and moved to New York where he worked in stage plays. There he started to work as director and writer and soon moved back to Los Angeles and moved into casting, often working with fellow casting director Anne McCarthy. Among the films he worked as casting director on are Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003), Little Athens (2005, with Jasmine Jessica Anthony and Michelle Horn), Waiting... (2005), Running Scared (2006), Five Finger (2006, with Colm Meaney), John Tucker Must Die (2006), Wild Hogs (2007), Premonition (2007, with Jude Ciccolella), I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007, with Sally Kellerman and Wallace Shawn), Shuttle (2008, with Cullen Douglas), Surfer, Dude (2008, with Jeffrey Nordling, Todd Stashwick, Nolan North, and Jamison Yang), The Lazarus Project (2008, with Bob Gunton), Fanboys (2009, with Christopher McDonald, William Shatner, and Chuck Borden), Crossing Over (2009, with Ashley Judd and Alice Eve), The Canyon (2009), Old Dogs (2009), The Last Rites of Ransom Pride (2010), and American Reunion (2012, with John Cho and Jay Harrington).
Scully also worked in the casting department of Going to California (2001-2002, with Brad William Henke) and Greg the Bunny (2002, with Bob Gunton and Sarah Silverman), Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002, with Ricardo Montalban), Malibu's Most Wanted (2003, with Greg Grunberg and Damion Poitier), Bad Santa (2003), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004, with Karl Urban), Bo Zenga's Stan Helsing (2009, with Diora Baird), and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010).
Scully was an associate producer on Sueño (2005, with Darlena Tejeiro) and a co-producer on Little Athens (2005) and on On the Doll (2007, with Nolan North and Brett Rickaby). He also worked as acting coach on This Is 40 (2012, with Spencer Daniels and Bill Hader).
External links[]
- ScullyFilm.com – official site
- Jay Scully at the Internet Movie Database
- Jay Scully at Wikipedia