i am not a professional actor how do i become one pleaseeeee help!!!?

Answer 1

Take acting classes for the next 12 years. After that, it's audition, audition, audition, audition, audition for plays.

Answer 2

You have to get your SAG card and a good agent. Period. Not until you get your SAG card in hand and actually perform a SPEAKING part in something that actually airs or distributes are you really a pro TV or Movie actor. How do you get one? Don't ask, because people don't tell. How would I myself do it? Well, firstly:

I'd get some headshots (black and white head pictures in different facial expressions and poses) made by a good photographer that includes makeup and wardrobe as part of the package. Then,

I'd make sure that I can act. I'd do this by auditioning for small local theaterhouses, playcompaines, and dramatic productions. Think urban theater, school plays, drama clubs, college drama departments (even community college, which usually has some of the best). You could also move to LA and pick up the newspaper Backstage West and the magazine Variety which will let you know everything going on in Hollywood, and especially the open cattle calls (extras needed) and music videos. Go to the cattle calls. Be on time and clean and neat and articulate and ready to take direction and stand around all day. Don't harass anyone with your headshot or demo reel/tape/DVD. Just say "Hello, where do you need me today when you start, and slyly slip a headshot/DVD to the casting director when you leave, without saying A WORD. Stay FAR away from LA acting schools, modeling agencies, recording studios, and other sleaze-houses, and make sure that any agent you hook up with has some A-list actors or is part of a firm that does.

Independent films are also a great way to get in the game. Go to a film school like UCLA's or NYU's and hang out. Take the headshots and give them to up-and-coming directors. Good directors only. Butter them up by giving them your headshot and asking to see their work. If they are good, keep in contact. Tell them you want to act in their movies. Be on time and reliable. If their film can ends up IN Cannes, you are there too baby!

Also, I don't care WHO it is. If you perform some kind of immoral act for them, they are NOT going to get you any more than you can get from Backstage West - a part as an extra. I don't care WHO it is. It just doesn't work like that. You have to have a good, respected agent pulling for you, and once you get that first part, a good attorney (not one the picture company "gives" you) and a good manager pulling for you.

To tell you the truth, it's like hitting the lottery. It most likely isn't going to happen at all, no matter how hard you work or what you do, no matter how on the level or immoral. There just aren't enough slots for the number of people that want into Hollywood, and LA will eat you ALIVE trying to chase the dream. Sorry to say it, but you must already be well financed and not care about the money to increase your chances. That way you can just live in LA and do it as a hobby. If you have to work and do this, God help you. It's a hard, hard, hard life. Even if you "make it". You are much better off doing something else that is less risky and less taxing on the soul. Even if you "love to act" or what-have-you. It really really really ain't what you think.

One more thing. Rent all seasons of HBO's Entourage. If you ever do "make it big", that show uniquely, accurately outlines the Hollywood lifestyle. LOL it almost made me homesick. Almost.

Answer 3

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