Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is arguably the most important and powerful talent and literary agency in American show business. Headquartered in an John A. Martin-designed building in Beverly Hills, the agency represents a vast array of actors, screenwriters, directors and other "creatives," as well as a variety of "projects," companies and ideas. The agency was founded by the legendarily Machiavellian superagent Michael Ovitz in 1975, and is now headed by his successors and partners, a cabal known as the "Young Turks." Some CAA clients of note are Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks.
