Trudy Booth
- Casting Director
After her graduation from Stanford in mathematics at age 19, Gertrude
"Trudy" Booth came to Hollywood where she met the WWII veteran and Los
Angeles City College acting student who became her husband, the
character actor Nesdon Booth .
Trudy and Ned raised three children in the Silverlake area of Los
Angeles. Grateful for the way residuals from a handful of TV
commercials continued to support her family after Ned's early death,
Trudy decided to pursue a career in commercial casting. She joined with
Maxine Anderson (the daughter of actor-director-writer-producer
'Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson' who was the first movie cowboy
star) to operate the first independent commercial casting office in the
United States. They pioneered the use of video-tape in the audition
process. Trudy later went on her own and opened the highly regarded
TLC/Booth Casting office with her youngest daughter Loree. She was
instrumental in the careers of many well known commercial directors,
casting directors, and actors as well as being loved and respected by
the many actors that she cast in commercials. She said that for for
her, casting TV commercials was always about "feeding actors'
children."