Michelle Latham

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Michelle Latham was the Location Manager for the Teaser Unit of Star Trek. She worked exclusively as Location Manager for the locations of the film's teaser trailer, which debuted in theaters on 18 January 2008.

Latham previously worked with Star Trek director and producer J.J. Abrams (among many other members of the Star Trek production team) as an Additional Location Manager on Paramount Pictures' Mission: Impossible III (2006). Latham and other members of the M:i:III location department (including Star Trek location manager Becky Brake and assistant location managers Golden Rob Swenson and Scott Trimble) were given a California on Location Award for their work on the film.

Latham's first Hollywood project was a 1998 independent film titled The Last Call (starring Seymour Cassel), for which she was Location Manager. Her other early film credits include Love Kills (1998, starring Louise Fletcher and Vincent Schiavelli), Some Girl (1998, starring Pamela Segall), Error in Judgment (featuring Paul Dooley), Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000, starring Paul Winfield, Tzi Ma, and George D. Wallace), Out in Fifty (1999, featuring James Avery and Ed Lauter), Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season (1999, featuring Raphael Sbarge and Dey Young), Foolish (featuring Jonathan Banks), and The Mao Game (starring Kirstie Alley).

As Latham acquired more experience in her field, she began finding work on higher-profile films. She was a location scout on 15 Minutes (2001, starring Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Avery Brooks, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country's Kim Cattrall and Star Trek: The Next Generation guest actor Kelsey Grammer, with Anton Yelchin). She was later a Key Assistant Location Manager on The Majestic (2001, featuring Next Generation guest star David Ogden Stiers). She has since managed locations for National Treasure (2004, featuring Christopher Plummer), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007, featuring Bruce Greenwood) and Disturbia (2007).

In addition to her film credits, Latham has also worked on several popular television series. In 1999, she was Key Assistant Location Manager on UPN's G vs E, and from 1999 through 2002, she was a location manager on The X-Files. She followed this with brief stints on CSI: Miami, Monk, and House (the latter starring Jennifer Morrison). She more recently procured locations for the Lifetime series State of Mind.

Latham also scouted shooting locations for The Stepfather (2009). She was also a key location manager and location scout on Spring Breakdown (2009) and Obsessed (2009, starring Idris Elba, with Bruce McGill and Jerry O'Connell).

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