Yes, you can have a real actor website for free, and for many actors the free version is genuinely enough. The question worth asking is not whether free exists. It is what the free version is paid for with, because it is always paid for with something, and in most cases it is paid for with the part you will most regret losing.
What free normally gets you
A free actor website should hold your headshots, your credits, at least one reel and a way to contact you, on a page that looks professional on a phone. That is not a stripped-back version of a website. For an actor early in their career it is the entire requirement, and anyone insisting you need to pay before you have any of that is wrong.
What free usually does not get you is your own address, and occasionally it does not get you an ad-free page. Those two are worth checking before you spend an evening on it, because both are far more painful to change afterwards than before.
The cost is almost always the address
The most common price of a free website is that it lives at someone else's address. A site at yourname.someplatform.com belongs to the platform. You are a folder on it.
That matters more for an actor than for most people, because your website address goes on a resume, in an email signature, in a programme, and into the hands of people who will search for it years later. If that address stops working, everything pointing at it breaks at once, and there is nothing you can do from your end. With your own domain, moving is an afternoon and nobody outside notices.
Check for advertising and platform branding
Some free tiers put a banner, a badge or an advertisement on your page. A badge in the footer is survivable. An advert is not, and it is worth being unsentimental about why: a casting director who opens your site to watch a reel and is shown somebody else's marketing has been told something about how seriously you take this.
Look at a real published example on a phone before committing, not the marketing screenshot.
Check you can get your work back out
You are about to type in every credit you have. Before you do, find out whether you can take them with you. A free plan that will not export your content is not free, it is a lease with the rent deferred, and the bill arrives on the day you outgrow it.
This is the least glamorous check on this page and the one people skip. It is also the one that costs an entire evening to discover the hard way.
A free template is not a free website
"Free actor website templates" and "free actor websites" are two different things, and the difference is who does the work afterwards.
A template is a design file. You still have to host it somewhere, put your content into it by hand, and edit the code every time a credit changes. If you are comfortable doing that, a template gives you more control than any builder will. If you are not, a template is a project that starts well and stops being updated by about the third change, which leaves you with a stale site that is actively working against you.
If it is the assets you are after rather than the site, our free downloads are separate from any of this and do not require an account.
The one thing worth paying for
Buy your domain, even if everything else is free. It is the cheapest item in this entire discussion and the only one that has to survive every other decision you make. Own yourname.com and you can change platform, design and host as often as you like without a single link anywhere in the world breaking.
If the name you want is gone, the domain finder will work through the variations that still read as a professional address.
What ours does for free
Stated plainly, because a page about free plans that hides its own is not worth much:
- The free plan does not expire and is a complete actor website: credits, reels, headshots, resume and contact.
- No advertising on your page, on any plan.
- Unlimited credits, photos, videos and audio, rather than a count that pushes you to upgrade.
- It fills itself in. Put your name in and it finds what already exists about you, so the free version is not an empty shell you have to earn.
- You can point your own domain at it when you have one.
- What we charge for is on the plans page, in full, rather than discovered halfway through.
Try it before deciding anything
Put your name in and look at the result. Start free. There is nothing to cancel if you do not like it.
Compare it with the alternatives
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