Marki Costello is a casting director and manager. She is the granddaughter of actor and comedian Lou Costello, who is most famous for being half of the comedy duo Abbott and Costello.
Marki Costello is the owner and president of CMEG (Creative Management Entertainment Group), an award-winning personal management and production company. The clients include actors, TV hosts, writers, producers, directors and newscasters. Costello is a self-proclaimed “Queen of Hosting,” a name which is widely acknowledged in Hollywood.
Costello’s knowledge and passion for the arts was something she got from her mother Carole. Costello is grateful for the insights her mother passed on and for the wisdom that has helped her achieve her goals in the TV industry.
Costello’s impressive resume includes being hired as a casting director for major networks such as Disney, Warner Bros., FOX and TBS. She also worked as head talent executive at Four Point Entertainment, as casting executive at Capital Records and Barris/Gubber/Peters TV and as talent coordinator at Orion Television and Mark Goodson Productions. Aside from TV shows, she also cast several commercials, print projects and independent films.
Some of the TV shows Costello cast are The Bachelor, Fun, Next Action Star and Night Games.
In 2003, Marki Costello hosted Love U. A year after, she starred on The TV Guide Channel’s Open Call, a reality show that do!@#!@ented her as she cast for ten shows. She was a judge on Fight for Fame.
On the big screen, Costello played small roles in Dirty Love and Bunny Whipped.
Los Angeles Times described Costello as one of the world’s most prizes talent scouts.
Marki Costello is a judge on VH1’s reality TV talent search I Know My Kid’s a Star, wherein children from ages 8 to13 and their parents compete against each other to become the next child star and the stage parent least likely to corrupt their child's fame, respectively. There is also a cash prize of $50,000. All pairs live together in one house and are given weekly challenges, and one team is eliminated at every end of the week. The Partridge Family and former child actor Danny Bonaduce hosts the show.
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