How do you become a actress?

Question

My Daughter Is 11 year's old and want's to get into acting.She has thought this over and after two year's of hearing my"Sorry baby,Your going to regret it".I finally gave in.
-What do you have to do to get commercial's/movies/televison show's
-Do you think we should get a agent
-How many photoshot's should i get of her
-What it's like to audition(What do they ask you,What do you have to do)
-How much will this approcimately cost?.
Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

You have to get professional photos taken and then take her to an agent and asked to be repped. Most likely the agent will tell her to take acting classes, but at least she'll be in the system.

Answer 2

Call the theaters in the city where you live and ask for recommendations on an acting school for your daughter.

The biggest expense for an acting career is training.
Your daughter needs experience before she gets an agent. Most agents represent actors that have acting experience.

Don't worry about auditions! She is not ready. She must prepare her acting craft with professional acting lessons, she should also know how to sing, dance (tap/jazz/ballet). She should study acting for the next 10-12 years. It takes many years of training to become an actor, it is not something one does in three months. Is she committed to the lengthy training?
Acting training is not cheap.

Many actors were performing from 1st grade through college and grad school. It's a long and winding road. You must make sure your daughter has the stamina to get into the acting industry, it's difficult to be seen by the right people. Many actors work as waiters instead of actors.

Your first step is to find the best acting school, in the city where you live, for your daughter.

I am a former talent agent. Your daughter is not ready to compete with professional child actors. Enroll her in a good acting school, so she can compete with others in her age range.

Answer 3

If she wants to do the television stuff just go for the comercials for now...

I wouldn't worry about the agent stuff. Get her in a local theatre group for kids and teens. see how much she likes it then if she is really serious about all this stuff and is really good she can on to larger theatre groups and maybe start thinking about an agent and bigger career stuff...

maybe 5 photoshots

An audition usually contains a monologue and if its a musical or singing role a song.

It depends on how far you are willing to go if you want to do the agent it will cost alot of money not to mention the money for traveling.... (if you want to audition for Hollywood) exc...

Answer 4

Ok, me and chris both wanna act too, and we are almost 13. I dont know how long chris has wanted to act, but me, shahana, maybe for 7 or 8 years.
Go and try out for theaters or comercials, they have studios and stuff. You can also enter a pagent/ depending on which one you go to, i went to Miss National American Miss- namiss.com
Check out that web site. depending how much she wants to do there, it will be a few hundred $'s.
Train her not to laugh, cuz if you go to an audition, you dont want to start giggling. Ask her to perfrom infront of people for practice.
Wish her good luck for me
~Shahana

Answer 5

work hard at it