Jenne Casarotto, co-founder of the London company Casarotto Ramsay & Associates which represents a few of the main names working behind the digital camera, died on Feb. 29. She was 77.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we announce the passing of Jenne Casarotto, co-founder of Casarotto Ramsay & Associates,” stated the corporate in a press release.
With a profession spanning greater than 50 years, Casarotto co-founded Casarotto Ramsay & Associates alongside her husband Giorgio in 1989, serving to re-shape the company panorama. The corporate’s roster would develop to incorporate most of the world’s best-known writers, administrators, creatives, literary properties and heads of departments throughout movie, theatre and tv.
Amongst her listing of purchasers through the years had been J.G. Ballard, John Crowley, the Dahl Property, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Frears, Matteo Garrone, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Nick Hornby, Bob Hoskins, Neil Gaiman, Terry Gilliam, Hilary Bevan Jones, Neil Jordan, David Leland, John Madden, Steve McQueen, Cynthia Payne, Neal Purvis, Martin Sherman, Shawn Slovo, Robert Wade, Tennessee Williams and David Yates.
“Jenne has been my agent for 45 years. Her recommendation was at all times sensible, level-headed, clear and inspiring. She’s been a beautiful supportive pal. This can be a horrible shock,” stated Frears.
“Jenne Casarotto was pivotal in my profession and my life. She was my pal, and I beloved her deeply,” stated Steve McQueen. “Within the 16 years that I’ve identified her she was an amazing assist to me. In my final dialog together with her I confessed my like to her, and she or he to me. I’ll at all times have her in my coronary heart with each footstep I take.”
Added John Madden: “Jenne was distinctive. An excellent agent and a rare human being – combining toughness with an immense heat, navigating the uneven waters of our business with canny ability, and an unquestioning loyalty each to her purchasers and to the group of brokers she nurtured and gathered round her. Her management, her understanding and her friendship had been matchless.”
Throughout her profession, Casarotto was honored for providers to movie by each the British Impartial Movie Awards and the Ladies in Movie & Tv Awards. She was made a member of BAFTA, AMPAS, the European Movie Academy and served as a board member of Instances Up U.Ok. Earlier this yr, she was named an honorary affiliate of the London Movie Faculty in a presentation made by Greg Dyke.
“Jenne’s legacy will proceed to stay on throughout the DNA of Casarotto,” stated Mel Kenyon, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates’ head of theatre and Casarotto’s colleague of greater than 30 years, talking on behalf of the corporate board. “The management group, board and good brokers she nurtured will proceed to drive the company which is able to stay a beacon of excellence and fierce independence”
Casarotto, who handed away following problems as a part of a brief sickness, is survived by her husband, Giorgio, their two sons, Mark, and Daniel, their three grandchildren and her brother Martin Goodwin.
