Mary Jo Slater
{{short description|American film producer}}
{{BLP sources|date=December 2013}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Mary Jo Slater
|image =
|caption =
|birthname= Mary Jo Lawton
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|4|19}}
|birth_place = Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
|spouse =
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- {{marriage |Michael Hawkins|1966|1976|end=div}}
- {{marriage | Jeffrey Wilson |1982 | |end=div}}
- {{marriage |William Henry Taron
|1990}} }}
|children= 2, including Christian Slater
}}
Mary Jo Slater (née Lawton;Stated on Christian Slater's appearance on Inside the Actors Studio born April 19, 1946) is an American casting director and producer for film, television and theatre. She has over 100 movie credits to her name.
Early life and career
Slater was born in Trenton, New Jersey, the daughter of Anna Mae (née Sweeny; 1913–1988) and Leonard Joseph Lawton (1914–1995).[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20084027,00.html So You Want to Be in Soaps? Mary Jo Slater Won't Pull Strings, but She Knows the Ropes], people.com; accessed March 18, 2015. She was a production assistant for Mark Twain Tonight! and had her first casting role for the 1977 Broadway revival of Hair. She went on to cast five more theatre productions before moving into film and television.
As a casting director, Slater has been nominated six times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series, including three nominations for The Tudors.{{cite web|title=Mary Jo Slater Awards|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0805411/awards?ref_=nm_awd|website=IMDB|accessdate=26 February 2016}}
Personal life
She was married to actor Michael Hawkins{{efn|He was born Thomas Knight Slater.}} and with him had one son, actor Christian Slater.{{cite episode|title=Christian Slater|series=Inside the Actors Studio|network=Bravo|airdate=October 13, 2008|season=15|number=16}} She is also the mother of actor Ryan Slater by her second husband, builder Jeffrey Wilson.{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026672/bio|title=Christian Slater profile|publisher=Yahoo.com|access-date=April 7, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100308003152/https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026672/bio| archive-date = 2010-03-08}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|805411}}
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Category:Film producers from New York (state)
Category:American casting directors
Category:American women casting directors