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CATRINE McGREGOR _____________________________________________________________________________ Catrine McGregor’s exciting childhood was certainly instrumental in forming her love for people and adventure, key elements to her current incarnation as a Producer and Casting Director. Born to an Air Force officer and a French mother, Catrine spent much of her childhood in France and Germany, where she became fluent in both languages and has retained a working knowledge of Spanish, where she spent her summers playing on the Costa del Sol.

McGregor-Unger received her dual Master’s degree in Film/TV and Education from Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles. While writing her thesis, she taught at Beverly Hills Catholic School, where Laura Dern was one of her students. McGregor also taught Bridget Kelly, whose famous father, Gene, heavily encouraged McGregor to pursue her passion for the entertainment industry. McGregor’s first professional contract was the production of the first training tapes made for the walking characters at Disneyland. From there, she worked on an array of projects as a freelance Producer, including two fascinating projects that sealed her yearning to work in the regional market. One film was a docu-drama - a look at the future called Jupiter Menace, the other was a whimsical 3D project produced for a Six Flags Theme Park called The Power Plant, both of which filmed on several locations around the U.S..

A relationship and love of the mountains took Catrine to Utah, where she worked as Vice-President of Development for Osmond Studios. She was asked to cast a film which famous local resident Robert Redford was producing, and Catrine’s casting company was launched with the film Promised Land, starring four unknowns at the time, including Meg Ryan, Kieffer Sutherland and Tracy Pollan (Michael J. Fox’s wife). Over the course of the next ten years, McGregor Casting was involved in many exciting projects, including four IMAX films that took her all over the West,  beautiful Zion Canyon and Kanab in Southern Utah, and breathtaking Hearst Castle. It was an IMAX film for Academy Award winning director Kieth (not a typo!) Merrill in the gentle Ozarks mountains that led to Catrine to move to Southern Missouri, where she continued to work as a casting director (in LA mainly), and where she began to develop a real, legitimate resource company for regional people just breaking into acting.

Catrine’s work continued to take her back to LA, and in 1996, she moved back and began actively casting again. One of her favorite projects was an animated feature produced by NASA to encourage America’s youth to choose the sciences as a career. Some of the actors who participated in the project were John Travolta, James Earl Jones, Anne Archer and Tim Curry.

In 1999, Catrine was approached by the Utah based firm Access Software to return to Utah to produce and cast their extremely popular interactive game Tex Murphy. She did, and it won her two Codie Awards - the electronic media version of the Academy Award. McGregor Casting also continued to thrive, and Catrine, along with her partner Jeff Johnson, cast many wonderful projects - many for the Disney Channel - Luck of the Irish, Double Teamed and Hounded to name a few. But her most memorable films - by far - were Salma Hayek and Danny Glover’s directorial debuts, Maldonado Miracle and Just a Dream, respectively. A member of the prestigious Casting Society of America (CSA), Catrine was also nominated to an Artio Award for her casting of the Firestarter TV pilot.

The year 2003 brought her to North Carolina to be near her aging parents. During that time, Catrine focused on being with them and taught acting seminars all over the country. She continued to develop her regional actors’ resource, during that time as well. After the passing of her father in 2005, Catrine resumed her producing and casting, and became active in the North Carolina scene. McGregor now resides in Boise, Idaho.

Her company, CatMac Productions, is currently in production on two TV shows, DEFINING MOMENT, a fresh project on which celebrities in the arts are interviewed by artistically driven teens; and SMALL TOWN, which explores the wonders of small towns and their residents.

Catrine recently produced the feature film THREE OF A KIND, winner of the Platinum Remi Grand Jury Awards at the Houston WorldFest Film Festival, as well as the UK/US/Nigerian based film TURNING POINT, which won two Nigerian Academy Awards in 2013.

CatMac Productions, in partnership with Ernie Hudson, of Ghostbusters, is in pre-production on the feature film THE DEAF KID, a teen spiritual film to be produced in Idaho during the summer of 2014.