Spouse David Zuckerman Role Film director | Name Ellie Kanner Years active 1991–present | |
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Occupation Film director, television director, former casting director Children Adam Zuckerman, Zachary Zuckerman Movies Authors Anonymous, For the Love of Money, Wake, Crazylove Similar People Jenna Mattison, Meagen Fay, David Zuckerman, Chris Klein, Dennis Farina | ||
Other names Ellie Kanner-Zuckerman Casting directed Kicking and Screaming | ||
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Ellie Kanner (sometimes credited as Ellie Kanner-Zuckerman) is an American film and television director and former casting director.
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Career
Kanner grew up in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Since a young age, she wanted to move to Los Angeles and pursue a career in entertainment.
She attended Southern Connecticut State University before transferring to Pasadena City College. She dropped out from school altogether and was hired as an agent by Irvin Arthur Associates, a talent agency that represented celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres, Marsha Warfield, Shelley Berman and Dick Shawn. She soon left the company to become a casting director. As a casting director, she cast the pilot episodes of The Drew Carey Show, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Two Guys and a Girl, Sex and the City and Friends, she won a Casting Society of America award for her work on the latter series.
Kanner other television casting credits include Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, Clueless, Time Trax, Special Unit 2 and The Dead Zone. As well as casting the films High Strung (1991), Sleep with Me (1994), Kicking and Screaming (1995), MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000) and Air Bud: World Pup.
In 2001, Kanner directed her first film entitled Rachel's Room. The film featured Maggie Grace's first major acting role and Liz Tigelaar's first screenplay credit. Her next film Italian Ties (2001) starred Scott Baio and Meat Loaf. Her other film directing credits include Crazylove (2005) starring Reiko Aylesworth and Bruno Campos, Wake (2009) starring Bijou Phillips and Ian Somerhalder, For the Love of Money (2012) with Edward Furlong and James Caan, and Authors Anonymous (2014) starring Kaley Cuoco, Dylan Walsh, Chris Klein, and Dennis Farina.
As for television, she has directed episodes of The Division, The Dead Zone, Boston Legal, Greek and Wildfire.
Personal life
Kanner is married to television producer and writer David Zuckerman. They have two sons, Zachary and Adam. She and her husband belong to the Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of Pacific Palisades.