Lori Wyman

Lori Wyman was born on April 19th at Mt Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father had a manufacturing business. Lori grew up about five minutes from where her office is today. At the age of seven Lori began studying classical piano and competed in recording competitions, winning several local and national awards. She also acted in school plays. Although not into organized sports, she was an avid bike rider. Lori went to Sable Palm Elementary, John F. Kennedy Junior High and North Miami Beach Senior High where she acted in some of the school plays. She attended the University of Florida and graduated from the University of Miami where she majored in speech and communications. She studied acting and had roles in some of the plays, but most of her time was spent in public speaking and college debates. Lori worked for an advertising agency while attending college. After graduating from college, she started working for Act One, a talent agency doing filing and typing. She later started calling talent, scheduled them for castings, learning as she goes. At this time there were only about three casting directors in Miami. One of the casting directors was handling the Miami Vice series and hired Lori to do the principal casting for the show in her office. She worked for them for the last two years of production. Lori then landed the B.L. Stryker (1989) series with Burt Reynolds in Jupiter, Florida. While working with Stryker she also worked with Stephen J. Cannell on a couple of episodes of 21 Jump Street (1987). When Stryker ended she picked up Wiseguy (1987), another series with Stephen J. Cannell. At the conclusion of Wiseguys she was out of a job, and after advice from couple of friends, Marc Macaulay and Bob Lasky she opened Lori Wyman Casting. The first years Lori made a few trips to LA to promote herself and to push the Florida talent pool. The work started pouring in with such films as Striptease, Blood and Wine, Up Close and Personal, and Wild Things. In the past 2 years she has cast All About the Benjamins (2002), Big Trouble (2002), and The Crew just to name a few. She just wrapped 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and is currently casting _"C.S.I.: Miami" (2002)_. Lori met husband Marc Macaulay while working on Miami Vice where he came in to cast for the show. They married in 1994, after he moved to live and work in Florida.