Career
Born in Manhattan and raised in Queens, New York, Bluestein has spent much of her career casting television movies, including The People versus Jean Harris, A Piano for Mistress Cimino, Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story, and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
She cast multiple episodes of the series Punky Brewster, Providence and Judge Advocate General and has cast every episode of NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles since their premieres.
Bluestein"s feature film casting credits include Crimes of the Heart, Who"s Harry Crumb?, and Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. Other recent projects are the 2008 British Broadcasting Corporation/Home Box Office docudrama House of Saddam and Dilli 6.
Bluestein and Davis were married in 1979 and had one child. In 1985, Davis was diagnosed Human Immunodeficiency Virus-positive, a condition the couple kept secret until just prior to his death by assisted suicide in 1991.
Shortly after his death she wrote the memoir After Midnight: The Life and Death of Brad Davis with Hilary De Vries.
Bluestein continues to be an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome activist.
