When you are in the theater department, you can be and do anything your heart desires. Actors like Sabrina Carpenter express ideas and portray characters in theater, film, television, and other performing arts media. They interpret a writer’s script to entertain or inform an audience. Actors typically do the following: Read scripts and meet with agents and other professionals before accepting a role, audition in front of directors, producers, and casting directors, research their character’s personal traits and circumstances to portray the characters more authentically to an audience, memorize their lines, rehearse their lines and performance, including on stage or in front of the camera with other actors, discuss their role with the director, producer, and other actors to improve the overall performance of the show, and perform the role, following the director’s directions.
The level of education that is needed for this career is some college but no degree is needed. With jobs like this, there are highlights and improvements. In 2014, 69,400 jobs were held by actors. You can really be any age to become an actor, but it depends on the roles you look at. You can be any gender to be an actor and any ethnicity. But finding an acting job is tough especially for beginners. Most beginners end up as extras in the things they try out for without lines. But every actor has to start somewhere. Most of the time if you are an extra you do get paid if you tried out for a paid job. The median hourly wage in May 2016 for entertainers and performers, sports and related workers was $19.65 per hour. For actors, it is $18.70 per hour and for total or all occupations it is $17.81 per hour.
The expected 10-year growth rate for acting is 10%. 7 % for total/all occupations and 6 % for entertainers and performers, sports and related workers. Employment of actors is projected to grow 10% from 2014 to 2024, faster than the average for all occupations. Job growth in the motion picture industry will stem from continued demands for new movies and television shows.
