Catrine McGregor

Catrine McGregor is the founder of ACT! Across America, which she initiated after realizing that there was truly no legitimate resource for regional actors across the US and throughout the world.

Her thirty plus years in the film and television industry as a Producer and Casting Director have formed her into one the United States’ top experts in the realm of acting and breaking into acting. She is a member of the prestigious Casting Society of America and is considered to be an expert in all aspects of the Screen Actor’s Guild, and in particular, how their by-laws apply in a right-to-work state.

McGregor had an international upbringing, raised between the U.S. and Paris, France. Her upbringing offered her great opportunities to travel extensively, and she is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Spanish and German. Two days after graduating with her dual Master’s Degrees in Film/TV and Education from Loyola-Marymount University in LA, McGregor was hired by Disney. From there, she worked on an array of projects as a freelance Producer, including two fascinating projects which sealed her yearning to work in the regional market. One film was a docu-drama - a look at the future called ‘Jupiter Menace,’ the other was a whimsical 3D project produced for a Six Flags Theme Park called ‘The Power Plant’ in the Baltimore Harbor, which filmed all over the country.

A relationship and love of the mountains took McGregor to Utah, where she worked as Vice-President of Development for Osmond Studios. While there, she was asked to cast a film which famous local resident Robert Redford was producing, and McGregor’s casting company was launched with the film ’Promised Land,’ starring four unknowns at the time, including Meg Ryan, Kieffer Sutherland and Tracy Pollan (Michael J. Fox’ wife). Over the course of the next ten years, McGregor Casting was involved in many exciting projects, including four IMAX films that took her all over the West, beautiful Zion Canyon and Kanab in Southern Utah, and breathtaking Hearst Castle. It was an IMAX film for Academy Award winning director Kieth (not a typo!) Merrill in the gentle Ozarks mountains that led McGregor to move to Southern Missouri, where she continued to work as a casting director (in LA mainly), and where she began to develop ACT! Across America.

In 1999, McGregor was approached by the Utah based firm Access Software to return to Utah to produce and cast their extremely popular interactive game Tex Murphy. She did, and it won her two Cody Awards - the electronic media version of the Academy Award. McGregor Casting also continued to thrive. Two of her most memorable films were Salma Hayek and Danny Glover’s directorial debuts, ’Maldonado Miracle’ and ’Just a Dream,’ respectively. McGregor was also nominated to an Artio Award for her casting of the ’Firestarter’ TV pilot.

McGregor currently lives in Boise, Idaho and continues to cast while proudly helming ACT! Across America.