Actor Blog Posts
3 Critical Questions For Choosing Your Best Headshots
Your acting headshot is an essential tool for getting work as an actor, but you should also think of it as an investment. You can’t just ask a friend to take a photo of you ...
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3 Critical Questions to Help You Select Your Primary Headshot
3 Critical Questions to Help You Select Your Primary Headshot AUDIO https://smartg.com/wp-content/uploads/ac-images/3CriticalHeadshotsQuestions-4MB.mp3 As an actor in Hollywood, you already know how important your headshot is when you’re trying to build your credits. If agents and casting ...
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5 Questions For Actors in Talent Agent Interviews
One of the common mistakes actors make in interviews with talent agents is not being prepared or not knowing what they should and shouldn’t ask the agent (or manager) they’re interviewing with. When you aren’t ...
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Talent Agent Marketing: To Snail Mail or To Email Your Headshot To Agents
Every week actors ask me whether it’s better to snail mail a headshot through regular U.S. Mail to get an agent, or to blast it out in an Email Message. The truth is there are ...
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7 Tips For Dull Actor Resumes
Do the credits on your acting resume make you question whether you even have an acting career? Given the level of competition in show business, it’s vital to have your acting resume be as strong ...
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Pull Your Acting Career Out Of the Toilet! (If it’s in there)…
“It’s NOT who YOU know but WHO KNOWS YOU?” Is this starting to sound familiar? It should because we have said it several times over the course of our Hollywood Hot Tips Courses. But whether ...
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Actor Headshots: Getting The Results You Expected
You know as an actor your headshot is your number one calling card for developing your film and TV career. That means you need the best headshot you can afford. Eventually, you find a photographer, ...
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Can You Handle The Truth… About Your Acting Career?
Jack Nicholson asked Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men, “Do you want the truth?” And now, I ask you, “Can you handle the truth?” If yes, read on. If not, go do something else ...
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Getting A Hollywood Talent Agent When Not Living In the U.S.
Actors all over the world have the big dream of working as an actor in Hollywood film and TV productions. Just because you are an actor in Canada, Germany, Austria, Ireland, or Egypt does not mean ...
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Do Your Film Credits Look Made Up?
The term "billing," in case you are not familiar with it refers to how SAG credits you when you play a given role in a SAG film or TV project. Last time we talked about ...
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Getting An Agent Who’s Right For You
Getting the right talent agent for where you are in your acting career is a bit like a walk on a tight-rope. You have to balance your resume credits against the clout of the talent ...
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