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Carmen Cuba is a casting director. Cuba began her casting career in 1999, working with filmmaker Larry Clark on Bully and Ken Park. This early experience led to a long-standing collaboration with Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, casting various projects from the experimental Bubble to 2023's Magic Mike's Last Dance. She has also collaborated with Ridley Scott on The Martian, Alien: Covenant, and All the Money in the World. Her film credits include Leos Carax's Annette, Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections, Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, and Jordan Peele's NOPE. In 2022, she worked on Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film, Madonna's autobiographical feature, the directorial debuts of Zoë Kravitz and Finn Wolfhard, and Justin Simien's Haunted Mansion. In television, Cuba has cast projects for acclaimed directors, including Soderbergh (Behind the Candelabra, The Knick), Luca Guadagnino (We Are Who We Are), Alex Garland (Devs), and Patty Jenkins (I Am the Night). She has also contributed to the celebrated series by Tarrell McCraney (David Makes Man), Tanya Saracho (Vida), Amy Seimetz (The Girlfriend Experience), Lena Waithe (The Chi), and Andrew Haigh (Looking). Notably, she cast alongside the Duffer Brothers all four seasons of Stranger Things. In 2023, her television highlights include Swarm for Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, another Glover-led series, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Soderbergh's limited series Full Circle, the Star Wars series The Acolyte for Leslye Headland, and Marvel's limited series Wonder Man directed by Destin Cretton. Cuba has been nominated for five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Casting, winning twice for Behind the Candelabra and Stranger Things.
Birthplace
Lima, Peru
Filmography
107 films, 38 shows
showing 87 of 91 films


Behemoth!
2026
country: United States
Gifted cellist Alex Serian returns home to Los Angeles after 20 years on the road. Music, which has been the constant, all-consuming river of his life, begins to carry Alex on an adventure that will change him forever.


Club Kid
2026 · 2h 6m
country: United States
A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.


The Christophers
2026 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be "discovered" and sold after his death.


Good Fortune
2025 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy capitalist.


HIM
2025 · 1h 36m
country: United States
After suffering a potentially career-ending brain trauma, Cameron Cade receives a lifeline when his hero, legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar Isaiah White, offers to train Cam at Isaiah's isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife. But as Cam's training accelerates, Isaiah's charisma begins to curdle into something darker.


Night Always Comes
2025 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.


The Naked Gun
2025 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world: Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. Following in his father's footsteps, he must solve a murder case to prevent Police Squad from closure.


Fear Street: Prom Queen
2025 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Who will be voted queen at Shadyside High's 1988 prom? For underdog Lori, competition is cutthroat even before someone starts killing off the candidates.


Hell of a Summer
2025 · 1h 28m
country: United States
When 24-year-old Jason Hochberg arrives for counsellor weekend at his beloved Camp Pineway, his biggest problem is feeling out of touch with his teenage co-workers. Little does he know; a masked killer has murdered camp owners John and Kathy and is preparing to strike again.


Black Bag
2025 · 1h 34m
country: United States
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.


Presence
2025 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.


Heretic
2024 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.


The Apprentice
2024 · 2h 2m
country: United States
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.


Emmanuelle
2024 · 1h 45m
country: France
While traveling, Emmanuelle meets Kei, a man who constantly eludes her. Though she indulges in the many alluring distractions, she can’t shake their chance encounter. Will she submit to her basest desires to forge a deeper relationship?


Blink Twice
2024 · 1h 43m
country: United States
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.


The Beast
2024 · 2h 26m
country: France
In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.


Fingernails
2023 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
Anna and Ryan have found true love together. It's been proven by a controversial test. There's just one problem: Anna still isn't sure. Then she meets Amir.


The Heart
2023 · 17m
country: United States
A lonely man grieves the death of his mother after an argument about groceries and an odd request in her will.


Haunted Mansion
2023 · 2h 3m
country: United States
A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.


Magic Mike's Last Dance
2023 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can’t refuse… and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he—and the roster of hot new dancers he’ll have to whip into shape—be able to pull it off?


Stars at Noon
2022 · 2h 18m
country: France
In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.


Entergalactic
2022 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.


Nope
2022 · 2h 10m
country: United States
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.


Beauty
2022 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, industry pressures and her love for her girlfriend.


The Adam Project
2022 · 1h 46m
country: United States
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.


Kimi
2022 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.


The Matrix Resurrections
2021 · 2h 28m
country: United States
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.


Fear Street: 1666
2021 · 1h 55m
country: United States
In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.


Fear Street: 1978
2021 · 1h 51m
country: United States
In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.


Annette
2021 · 2h 20m
country: Belgium
In present-day Los Angeles, controversial stand-up comedian Henry McHenry and internationally renowned opera singer Ann Defrasnoux form the façade of a happy couple in the spotlight. Ann gives birth to a baby girl named Annette, who possesses an exceptional gift that will change all of their lives forever.


Fear Street: 1994
2021 · 1h 48m
country: United States
After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.


No Sudden Move
2021 · 1h 55m
country: United States
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.


Bad Hair
2021 · 1h 42m
country: United States
In 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.


Let Them All Talk
2020 · 1h 53m
country: United States
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.


Hillbilly Elegy
2020 · 1h 57m
country: United States
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.


His House
2020 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.


The Laundromat
2019 · 1h 36m
country: United States
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.


Guava Island
2019 · 56m
country: Cuba
Deni Maroon, a musician and dock worker is determined to pull off a music festival against the interests of the local factory owner.


High Flying Bird
2019 · 1h 30m
country: United States
When an NBA lockout sidelines his big rookie client, an agent hatches a bold plan to save their careers -- and disrupt the league's power structure.


The Girl in the Spider's Web
2018 · 1h 55m
country: Germany
After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.


My Dinner with Hervé
2018 · 1h 46m
country: United States
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.


Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 · 2h 21m
country: United States
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.


Boy Erased
2018 · 1h 55m
country: Australia
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.


American Woman
2018 · 1h 51m
country: United States
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.


Lean on Pete
2018 · 2h 1m
country: United Kingdom
Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.


Unsane
2018 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.


Gringo
2018 · 1h 51m
country: United States
An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.


All the Money in the World
2017 · 2h 12m
country: Italy
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.


The Florida Project
2017 · 1h 52m
country: United States
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.


Logan Lucky
2017 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.


Alien: Covenant
2017 · 2h 2m
country: United States
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.


Morgan
2016 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.


Blood Father
2016 · 1h 28m
country: France
An ex-con reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter while fighting to keep her alive after she becomes a target of violent drug dealers.


Looking: The Movie
2016 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s important to him.


LoveTrue
2016 · 1h 22m
country: United States
From an Alaskan strip club, a Hawaiian island, and the streets of NYC—revelatory stories emerge about a deeper definition of love.


The Martian
2015 · 2h 21m
country: United States
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.


Hidden
2015 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.


Magic Mike XXL
2015 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.


Dark Places
2015 · 1h 53m
country: France
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.


Beyond the Reach
2014 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.


Open
2014 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Modern, provocative exploration of human sexuality and relationships.


Some Velvet Morning
2013 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession — and a dark history between the former lovers comes into focus.


Killing Kennedy
2013 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Drama documentary based on Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's 2012 non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot". It follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to those fatal days in Dallas in November 1963, when they both died within two days after each other and were buried on the same day - John F. Kennedy in a state funeral in Washington D.C., broadcast live both to Europe and the Pacific, while Oswald was buried in Forth Worth at a small funeral where the attending reporters were asked to act as pallbearers.


Now You See Me
2013 · 1h 56m
country: United States
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.


Behind the Candelabra
2013 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.


Side Effects
2013 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.


Butter
2012 · 1h 31m
country: United States
An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.


Magic Mike
2012 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.


The Sitter
2011 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be doing anything else, especially if it involves slacking. When Noah is watching the neighbor's kid he gets a booty call from his girlfriend in the city. To hook up with her, Noah takes to the streets, but his urban adventure spins out of control as he finds himself on the run from a maniacal drug lord.


Haywire
2011 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.


Contagion
2011 · 1h 46m
country: United States
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.


The Informant!
2009 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.


The Girlfriend Experience
2009 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Chelsea is an in-demand call girl whose $2,000 an hour price tag allows her to live in New York's lap of luxury. Besides her beauty and sexual skill, Chelsea offers her clients companionship and conversation, or, as she dubs it, "the girlfriend experience." With her successful business and a devoted, live-in boyfriend, Chelsea thinks she has it made... until a new client rocks her world.


Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
2009 · 1h 28m
country: United States
An age-obsessed daughter of a plastic surgeon takes a journey through America's $60 Billion a year anti-aging world. In this Alice-in Wonderland tale, McCabe spends 2 years traveling across America visiting doctors, experts and lives with a cross-section of characters from Minnesota to Texas who've gone to varying lengths to "beat the clock", to paint a funny but troubling portrait of a country that desperately needs to stay young.
The Diagnosis
The Diagnosis
2008 · 13m
country: Unknown
Everyone needs a diagnosis.


Itty Bitty Titty Committee
2007 · 1h 27m
country: United States
High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
What Would Jesus Buy?
What Would Jesus Buy?
2007 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!


Bubble
2006 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.


Deepwater
2005 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A drifter comes to the town of Deepwater and is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.


One Point O
2004 · 1h 35m
country: Iceland
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.


The Butterfly Effect
2004 · 1h 53m
country: Canada
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All
It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All
2003 · 2h 7m
country: Canada
A 2003 Canadian Movie directed by Marcel Sarmiento


Ken Park
2003 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.


Sweet Friggin' Daisies
2002 · 23m
country: Unknown
A couple spend a last night together before she has to leave him.


Bully
2001 · 1h 53m
country: United States
A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.


The Journeyman
2001 · 1h 33m
country: United States
In the Wild West at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their Grandpa is gunned down in cold blood. The desperados kidnap the older boy while a priest takes in the younger one. Thirteen years later these two brothers will cross paths again as they both seek revenge, each in their own way.
King of the Korner
King of the Korner
2000
country: Unknown
The homeless live in a forgotten world in downtown Los Angeles.