The Den, the woman-owned bicoastal edit house launched last year, is expanding its presence on the East Coast with the addition of Kate Owen as partner/editor. She joins a talent roster which includes Andrew Ratzlaff, Christjan Jordan, Eric Alexander-Hughes, Katie Cali, and Ross Birchall.
The UK-born Owen started editing while in her teens, becoming an apprentice to the award-winning film editor Jim Bambrick at the age of 18. She moved to New York from London a few years later and has since edited an impressive array of projects ranging from fashion and beauty to lifestyle and entertainment. She’s worked with brands such as Gucci, Clinique, Maybelline, Victoria Beckham, Vogue, Adidas, Sony, Showtime, and Virgin Atlantic out of agencies like Mother, Saatchi&Saatchi, mcgarrybowen, Grey Worldwide, and Y&R. Owen has won multiple industry awards from the One Show, D&AD, BTAA, as well as a Gold Cannes Lions for her work on “The Man Who Walked Around the World” campaign for Johnnie Walker. Owen has also made a mark in the film world with the BAFTA-nominated short Turning and the Toronto Film Fest selection The Sweetest Sound.
Previous editorial house affiliations for Owen include Wax, Marshall Street Editors, Hooligan, and Whitehouse Post.
Maggie Smith, Star of Stage, Film and “Downton Abbey,” Dies At 89
Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey" and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89. Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, said in a statement that Smith died early Friday in a London hospital. "She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother," they said in a statement issued through publicist Clair Dobbs. Smith was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench, with a clutch of Academy Award nominations and a shelf full of acting trophies. She remained in demand even in her later years, despite her lament that "when you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything." Smith drily summarized her later roles as "a gallery of grotesques," including Professor McGonagall. Asked why she took the role, she quipped: "Harry Potter is my pension." Richard Eyre, who directed Smith in a television production of "Suddenly Last Summer," said she was "intellectually the smartest actress I've ever worked with. You have to get up very, very early in the morning to outwit Maggie Smith." "Jean Brodie," in which she played a dangerously charismatic Edinburgh schoolteacher, brought her the Academy Award for best actress, and the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) as well in 1969. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for "California Suite" in 1978, Golden Globes for "California Suite" and "Room with a View," and BAFTAs for lead actress in "A Private Function" in 1984, "A Room with a View" in... Read More