becoming an actress?

Question

so i want to get into acting does anyone know how much it costs to pay for an agent...

Answer 1

Where do you live? What is your training? What is your education? What are your qualifications? Why do you want to act?

Never ever ever pay an agent. Legitimate agents make money when their clients make money. They don't make money from photos or resumes or advance payments. Rip off artists who say they are managers or consultants take neophyte actors for millions. The Screen Actors Guild works hard to expose these crooks, but there are lots of people, maybe like you, who want to get into the business so badly that they'll do just about anything to find their way in.

Legitimate producers only hire professional actors. The Catch 22 of getting an agent (who will only take a professional who is in AFTRA, SAG or Actors Equity) is tough. Getting a job without an agent is tough. Getting in the union without a job offer is tough.

Starting as a background player is one way to get into the union. Extras are not well treated on the set usually and work long and hard hours for pittance. By working regularly as an extra you may become elegible for a 'voucher' that will allow you to join SAG..

If you don't live in LA, NYC or Chicago, start by working in community theatre or if you are still in school, audition for school plays. Get experience. Read books. Don't spend money on anything until you really understand that the chances of making a living as an actor are much like the lottery. If you are undeniably talented, that's a credit that thousands just like you have. By perservering, however, and being lucky, you might get a shot.

There is no tenure. There is no guaranteed success. There's lots of heartache and the Business is the most fickle of all businesses.

Check the SAG.org website for info on joining the union.

Never ever pay for an agent! Only do business with an agent who is franchised or associated with the Screen Actors Guild.

good luck.

Answer 2

Depends on the agent

Answer 3

How many years have you studied acting? Go to acting school for 10 years and you will be ready to act. You are not ready for an agent.

Answer 4

before you pay an agent, the agent will want to know what kind on training have you done...so if u havent done so, i suggest that you get some training in your high school/college or some school outside of school

Answer 5

I'll be blunt. You're no longer going to be a popular actress. The odds are extraordinarily stacked in opposition to you. Go get lunch in LA, and you are going to meet multiple actress/waitress who desires to be the following big name. To be sincere, your odds are even worse. Now that Sandra Bullock is a celebrity, she may also be choosy approximately what she does. An actor who has no longer made it tremendous takes any and each and every feasible function, hoping to get spotted. If that implies making a song on a cat meals commericial, you do it. Only being in a single exhibit isn't a well begin. A few popular actors make tremendous cash, however the leisure are not able to even aid themselves with appearing. Are you going to be the only in one million who hits it tremendous? Probably no longer. If you pass the clinical monitor, you'll make a well dwelling. Even in case you are not able to relatively make it into clinical institution, you'll pass to PA institution or NP institution or get your MSN, and you are going to make a well dwelling.

Answer 6

Sometimes you can get them for free... it just depends on how good you are.

Take classes first, and get really good and the agents will come to you.

Answer 7

my brother is just starting out and he had to get an agent, which was hundreds, take photos which was hundreds, and pay him every month.....but my brother has had work , first as extras, then in movies. he has had speaking roles too and only started last year.