About me
Award-winning Casting Director Catherine Willis’ career started in regional and West End theatre, prior to 6 years in-house at the BBC casting department across multiple series, then establishing Catherine Willis Casting in 2006. Catherine works with emerging and established directors, specialising in new talent for drama, and an eye for critically acclaimed crossover productions and comedies.
Television work includes: Dead Set created by Charlie Brooker and directed by Yann Demange; Flowers for Kudos with Olivia Colman; BAFTA-winning series Detectorists with Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook; Fresh Meat with Zawe Ashton and Jack Whitehall; Netflix’s Cuckoo; Liam Williams’ Ladhood for BBC Studios; King Gary (BBC); Aisling Bea’s This Way Up for Hulu and Merman, with Sharon Horgan, Tobias Menzies and Indira Varma, Including BAFTA nominated 'Brian and Charles' (dir. Jim Archer), 'And Mrs' with Colin Hanks, Aisling Bea and Harriet Walter, and docu-drama "Under the Wire' (dir. Chris Martin) and The Ballard of Wallace Island'
Feature credits include C4’s 'Somewhere Boy' for Clerkenwell Films, for which Catherine won the 2023 Royal Television Casting Award.


Crime
series 2
Broadcaster:
Director:
Britbox / ITV
Trygve Allister Dieson
Helen Ostler
Buccanneer
Genre:
Producer/s:
Production Co.:
Drama
Year:
2023
Irvine Welsh's drama following Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates serious crimes while battling his own personal demons and in-fighting within the police department.

Murder Before Evensong
Broadcaster:
Director:
Acorn TV / Channel 5
David Moore
Radford Neville
The Lighthouse Film and TV
Genre:
Producer/s:
Production Co.:
Mystery, Crime
Year:
2025
Canon Daniel Clement, the amiable Rector of the quiet English village of Champton, finds his life thrown into chaos when a proposal for a new church lavatory ignites parish disputes and unearths old secrets. The unrest quickly turns deadly when a cousin of the local lord is brutally murdered in a church pew. Forced to act, Daniel must navigate the growing tensions and body count in his fractured community to unmask the killer hiding behind the tranquil façade of village life.

Changing Ends
4 series
Broadcaster:
Director:
ITV
Dave Lambert
Mollie Freedman-Berthoud
Baby Cow Productions
Genre:
Producer/s:
Production Co.:
Comedy
Year:
2025
Changing Ends is a semi-autobiographical comedy series co-written by Alan Carr. It chronicles 12-year-old Alan, a flamboyant and theatrical boy, as he struggles to navigate self-discovery and find acceptance while living in the highly masculine world of of his father, Graham Carr, a football manager. The series is a funny and heartwarming look at identity, family support, and finding your place.

Avoidance
2 series
Broadcaster:
Director:
BBC
Benjamin Green
Michaelle Farr- Scott
RangaBee Productions
Genre:
Producer/s:
Production Co.:
Comedy
Year:
2023
Avoidance is a bittersweet comedy starring Romesh Ranganathan as Jonathan, a man so averse to conflict that his partner leaves him. To avoid confronting the split, Jonathan runs away with his young son to live with his highly organized sister and her wife. The series follows the hapless Jonathan as he struggles to build a backbone and finally face life's difficulties for his son's sake.

The Ballad of Wallis Island
Film
Broadcaster:
Director:
Universal
James Griffiths
Rupert Majendie
Baby Cow Films
Genre:
Producer/s:
Production Co.:
Comedy, Drama
Year:
2025
A heartfelt British comedy-drama about Charles, an eccentric, lonely lottery winner who lives on a remote island. Obsessed with reuniting his favorite folk-pop duo, McGwyer Mortimer (played by Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), he invites the former romantic and musical partners to his secluded home for a private concert—an audience of one. When the estranged musicians arrive, old tensions and unresolved feelings quickly resurface, setting the stage for a funny yet melancholy story about music, healing, and the challenge of moving on from the past.

The Marlow Murder Club
3 series
Broadcaster:
Director:
PBS
Steve Barron, Katherine Churcher
Frith Tiplady, Matthew Read, Simon Crawford Collins
Monumental Television
Genre:
Producer/s:
Production Co.:
Mystery
Year:
2025
ased on the books by Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club follows eccentric 77-year-old retired archaeologist Judith Potts. After witnessing a murder across the river, and being dismissed by the police, she teams up with two unlikely allies—unassuming dog walker Suzi Harris and high-strung vicar's wife Becks Starling—to form a formidable trio dedicated to solving a series of baffling murders in their picturesque town.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
3 series
Broadcaster:
Director:
BBC
Dolly Wells, Tom Vaughan
Sophie Klein . Sophie MacClancy
Moonage Pictures
Genre:
Producer/s:
Production Co.:
Trhiller
Year:
2025
Five years after high school senior Andie Bell was murdered and her boyfriend, Sal Singh, was blamed, student Pippa "Pip" Fitz-Amobi is convinced Sal was innocent. For her final project, Pip decides to re-examine the officially closed case, but her amateur investigation quickly uncovers dark secrets and lies someone in town desperately wants to keep buried. Pip soon realizes the real killer is still at large and is watching her every move.

Pushers
Broadcaster:
Director:
C4
Peter Fellows
Charlie Laurie
Merman Television, 2LE Media
Genre:
Producer/s:
Production Co.:
Comedy, Drama
Year:
2025
After her disability benefits are unfairly cut, Emily Dawkins (Rosie Jones), a young woman with cerebral palsy, starts a life of crime. Realizing society's tendency to overlook her makes her the perfect criminal, Emily forms a gang of disabled outcasts. They begin dealing drugs, operating in secret out of the backroom of a charity, in a dark and hilarious comedy that uses crime to expose the broken system and subvert stereotypes.

Renegade Nell
Broadcaster:
Director:
Disney+
Ben Gregor, MJ Clarkson
Jon Jennings, Stella Merz
Lookout Point
Genre:
Producer/s:
Production Co.:
Drama
Year:
2024
Set in 18th-century England, Renegade Nell is a thrilling historical fantasy series following Nell Jackson, a courageous and quick-witted young woman who, after being framed for murder, unexpectedly becomes the country's most notorious highwaywoman. Granted superhuman strength by a magical sprite named Billy Blind, Nell must use her newfound abilities to outwit corrupt officials, protect her family, and ultimately confront a sinister magical conspiracy that reveals her greater, unexpected destiny.

Alma's Not Normal
2 series
Broadcaster:
Director:
BBC
Andrew Chaplin
Gill Isles
Expectation Entertainment








