Tatyana+Perkins+Career+Profile

Acting
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**Actors and actresses performs in plays, movies, t.v and videos.**They move on to play many different characters throughout their careers.
Actresses/Actors work many hours before performing in front of an audience. To audition for a part, the actors/actresses have to read and study the parts, then they audition in front of the director and the producers. When the person gets a certain role, **they have to memorize and rehearse their lines with the rest of the cast.**

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A Theater arts program can prepare you for a theater job in addition to acting. Actors usually train at an acting school or in a college program. However, some people enter the field without such training. Those who want a college degree take classes in radio and television broadcasting, communications, film, theater, drama, or dramatic literature. Many continue their college training and get a master's degree in fine arts. **Training may include classes in stage speech and movement, directing, play writing, and design, as well as acting workshops.** =====

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Actors often work with a drama coach. They research their roles so they can understand the story's setting and background. **Sometimes they learn a foreign language or train with a coach to develop a certain accent to make their characters realistic.** =====

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Actors need a lot of talent in order to play different parts. Skills such as singing, dancing, skating, or juggling may be important. Actors must have self control and be able to follow directions. Modeling experience also may be helpful. Physical appearance, such as the right size, weight, or facial look, often determines who gets selected for certain roles. =====

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To become a movie extra, an actor usually must be with a casting agency. Actors only get small parts when more people are needed to perform in a particular movie. Very few actors actually get parts this way. =====

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**In May 2008 Actors Made 29.05 an hour**
[|Future Prospect/chances of getting this job]

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**In 2008, Actors held 56,500 jobs**. Many jobs are in New York and Los Angeles, but they can work all over the country. Actors may work for television, motion pictures, and Broadway shows. Actors may also work for cruise lines, theme parks, or summer festivals, and as teachers. =====

[|Average Hours Spent On The Job]

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**Actors worked long and irregular hours on the job. Actors work long and irregular hours.** They may do one show at night and another during the day. They also might travel with a particular job. Evening and weekend work is a regular part of an actor's life. Actors should be in good physical condition. They must often endure heat from bright lights. =====

[|High School]

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Actors need a lot of talent in order to play different parts. **Skills such as singing, dancing, skating, or juggling may be important**. Actors must have self control and be able to follow directions. Modeling experience also may be helpful. **Physical appearance, such as the right size, weight, or facial look, often determines who gets selected for certain roles.** =====

[|College Or Other Education/Traning]

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**//Actors// perform in the theater, radio, television, video, or motion pictures.** It's hard for most actors to find steady work. Only a few become famous "stars." Some well-known, skilled actors may be in supporting roles. Others work as "extras," with no lines or only one or two lines. **They also teach in high school or college drama departments, acting conservatories, or public programs** =====