Jim Elliott has been hired as chief creative officer of Young & Rubicam, New York. He is slated to start his new position in early June and will be responsible for overseeing creative direction and work for all of the agency’s clients including Land Rover, Campbell’s, Dell, LG, Dannon, Fisher-Price, Virgin Atlantic, Xerox and the National Hockey League.
Elliott is joining Y&R from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, where he spent the past five years, serving most recently as group creative director, working on such accounts as Häagen-Dazs, Hyundai, Denny’s, HP, Yahoo! and Netflix. He also was part of the team that landed the Sonic Drive-In chain for Goodby.
Elliott’s work has garnered awards from Cannes, D&AD, One Show, CLIO, Kellys, ANDYs and the Effies. His work for both Nike and Häagen-Dazs has earned AICP Show honors and is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art. And his “Help the Honey Bees” campaign for the Häagen-Dazs won the first-ever Green Pencil awarded by the One Club.
Prior to Goodby, Elliott served as creative director and partner at Cole & Weber United in Seattle, Washington. Elliott came to Cole & Weber from Mullen Advertising.
“Overnight Success” Has Been More Than A Decade In The Making For Meghann Fahy and Eve Hewson
Meghann Fahy and Eve Hewson, two of the stars of Netflix's whodunit "The Perfect Couple," have news for you if you want to call them breakouts: They've been working in this business for more than a decade.
Fahy made her TV debut in 2009 in an episode of "Gossip Girl." Hewson's first big film role was in 2011's "This Must Be the Place." They do concede, however, that it's recent TV roles — "The White Lotus" for Fahy and "Bad Sisters" for Hewson — that have led to new frontiers of opportunity.
Susanne Bier, who directed "The Perfect Couple," says both Fahy and Hewson are "going to be big stars."
"They certainly have proper, profound star quality, Both of them in very different ways," Bier says. "Both are incredibly creative, incredibly smart, and also have a impressive insight as to who they are. You can be a great actor or actress and not necessarily really know who you are yourself. And they do."
Hewson, 33, whose dad is U2 front man Bono, may have grown up in a famous family but she's now in demand in her own right. She will next be seen in a second season of "Bad Sisters, " out in November. She's in Noah Baumbach's next film, alongside Adam Sandler, George Clooney and Riley Keough. She's also been cast in Steven Spielberg's next production and is set to star opposite Murray Bartlett in a racing series for Hulu.
Fahy, 34, is in production on a limited series with Julianne Moore and Milly Alcock called "Sirens," written by Molly Smith Metzler ("Maid") for Netflix. She also has two films in the can with Josh O'Connor ("The Crown," "Challengers") and Brandon Sklenar ("It Ends With Us").
The two actors spoke candidly about this phase of their careers. This interview has been condensed for clarity and... Read More