{{Short description|American casting director (1948 or 1949 – 2025)}} {{Infobox person | name = Ronnie Yeskel | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 1948 or 1949 | birth_place = New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and given age|2025|1|4|76}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Casting director | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = ''Reservoir Dogs''<br />''Pulp Fiction''<br />''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' }}
'''Ronnie Yeskel''' (1948 or 1949 – January 4, 2025) was an American casting director. She worked on the films ''Reservoir Dogs'' (1992), ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994), ''Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead'' (1995), ''The Long Kiss Goodnight'' (1996), ''Bean'' (1997), ''Waking the Dead'' (2000), ''Igby Goes Down'' (2002), ''Orphan'' (2009), and ''The Sessions'' (2012), and the television series ''L.A. Law'' (1990–1993) and ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' (2000–2002).
Yeskel was nominated with Marla Garlin and Richard Hicks for a 2003 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series for ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''.<ref name="THR"/>
==Personal life and death== Yeskel was born and raised in New Jersey. She died at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Retirement Home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, on January 4, 2025, at the age of 76.<ref name="THR">{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ronnie-yeskel-dead-pulp-fiction-curb-your-enthusiasm-1236110642/|title=Ronnie Yeskel, ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Casting Director, Dies at 76|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 16, 2025|access-date=January 16, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ronnie-yeskel-dead-pulp-fiction-1236276069/|title=Ronnie Yeskel, ‘Pulp Fiction’ Casting Director, Dies at 76|website=Variety|date=January 16, 2025|access-date=January 16, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2025/01/ronnie-yeskel-dies-casting-director-pulp-fiction-curb-your-enthusiasm-1236258567/|title=Ronnie Yeskel Dies; Casting Director For ‘Pulp Fiction’ & ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Was 76|website=Deadline|date=January 16, 2025|access-date=January 16, 2025}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0947733}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yeskel, Ronnie}} Category:1940s births Category:Year of birth uncertain Category:2025 deaths Category:American women casting directors Category:People from New Jersey
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