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Sheila Jaffe Actors dropping by Manhattan's Cafe Central in the 1980s could have easily gotten an audience with Sheila Jaffe. As hostess - night manager, her main casting job was who would fit at what table, but the cafe was an actor hangout -- so she got to know such regulars as Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. When the restaurant closed, Jaffe got her start in casting after catching a break from Georgianne Walken. Such movies as Slums of Beverly Hills and The Italian Job led to television series The Sopranos (for which she won a 1999 Emmy with Walken) and Entourage, which she co-casts with relative newcomer Susan Paley Abramson. Jaffe still enjoys her role in molding casts, though she acknowledges the process is more democracy than monarchy. "I like painting the canvas [of a show]," she says, "but then reality sets in and people have other opinions."

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series 2004, 2003, 2001, ... · The Sopranos Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series, Movie or a Special 2003 · Hysterical Blindness Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series 2007, 2006, 2005 · Entourage