2020 Casting (now Mad Dog 2020 Casting) is a casting agency based in

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, England which supplies extras for film shoots. Previously, it was located in

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, in West London. 2020 casting merged with Mad Dog Casting in 2017 to form Mad Dog 2020 Casting and is now based in Ealing Studios. The agency was founded by actor

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and personal trainer Richard Smedley who met on the set of the film

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in around 1995. 2020 was "the first agency to take digital photographs of its artistes", and "the first to use text messaging systems to contact our artistes". Villiers is known for his part in the top rated ITV

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, ''

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'' in which he played the role of the solicitor Grayson Sinclair. 2020 Casting has a sister agency, SA19 that is a leading supplier of uniformed supporting artistes to the UK film and television industry. 2020 claims to have 2,600 artistes registered on their books, with a backup database of well over 30,000. They have supplied extras for more than 200 films, including ''

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'' and '' Bridget Jones's Diary''.Internet Movie Database
Retrieved December 2012

References

Jones, Chris ''Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint''
Continuum International Publishing Group (2003) Retrieved December 2012

Notes

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External links

2020 Official website
Retrieved December 2012

Retrieved December 2012 Talent and literary agencies