Public Relations Veteran Nancy Seltzer Passes

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Nancy Seltzer.

Public relations veteran Nancy Seltzer passed away yesterday (Jan. 28) in Los Angeles. She was 79.

Seltzer began her career in her home of New York before moving to Los Angeles full time. She was the longtime representative for Garth Brooks, Danielle Steel, Joyce DiDonato, Placido Domingo and the late Sir Sean Connery. Over the course of her career, she has represented talents that include Bette Davis, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Stana Katic, Annette Bening, Kathy Bates, Tom Wilkinson and Whitney Houston. She led a boutique publicity firm, Nancy Seltzer & Associates, with offices on both the East and West Coasts.

She served as the head publicist overseeing the Oscars red carpet. Over the span of her decades-long career, she represented iconic films including Pirates of the Caribbean, Breaking Away, All That Jazz, Amadeus, Splash, RoboCop, Spinal Tap, Jewel, Aliens, House of Games, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, When Harry Met Sally… Misery, Silence of the Lambs, A Few Good Men, Philadelphia, The Shawshank Redemption, Scream and Scream 2, Dead Man Walking, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Good Will Hunting, and Finding Forrester. She led campaigns for films such as Amadeus, Misery, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, The Shawshank Redemption, and Dead Man Walking from production through their Academy Award strategies.

“Public relations is the hardest job in show business,” Brooks shares. “She always handled every situation with the utmost class.”

Donations can be made to the Tower Cancer Research Foundation. Services have not yet been announced.

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