Nancy Seltzer, a public relations expert who over the years worked with many celebrity clients including Garth Brooks and the late Sean Connery, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 79 years old.
“Public relations is the hardest job in show business,” Brooks said in a statement. “She always handled every situation with the utmost class.”
Over the years, she represented actors such as Richard Burton and Robert Downey Jr. and musicians such as Whitney Houston. For years, she was a constant presence on the Academy Awards red carpet as head of public relations.
The boutique advertising firm of Nancy Seltzer & Associates has offices on both coasts and represents clients in the film, music, theater, and literary worlds.
Seltzer began his career in his hometown of New York before moving to Los Angeles. She went on to fill in for some of the biggest names in acting, including Bette Davis, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Kathy Bates and Tom Wilkinson, as well as music’s Placido Domingo and best-selling author Daniel Steele.
She has starred in “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Breaking Away,” “All That Jazz,” “Splash,” “Robocop,” “Spinal Tap,” “Alien,” and “The Unbearable. He has helped promote iconic films such as “When Harry Met Sally” and “A Few Good Men,” and has represented films such as “Amadeus,” “Misery,” and “The Silence of the Lambs.” From the production of “Philadelphia,” “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Dead Man Walking,” to the Academy Award campaigns.
“Ms. Seltzer was especially known for her extraordinary trust. She forged long-lasting friendships with people all over the world and was wonderful, kind, caring and fiercely loyal to them as well,” her office said in a statement.
She was predeceased by her parents, Nathan and Ann Seltzer, and her brother, Norman Seltzer.
Donations may be made to the Tower Cancer Research Foundation.
