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Actor Website Tips | Use some sort of analytics information to see if your website is being visited.

You probably have heard about website analytics before, but some may not have a clue what that's all about. And that's fine, you probably don't need to know that much, but you know what helps? Seeing if people do indeed...

Fun Facts | Websites for Actors

Build your #actor #website during a commercial break.

Actor Casting Hints | Impress Casting Directors

If it's a callback try to memorize some lines. Final callback? Go off book.

Actor Dictionary | Talent Holding Deal

Much like how studios can offer writers and producers first look deals, they can also make a similar type of offer to actors, especially in the TV arena. Often times a network/studio will recognize an actor for his/her talents, but won't have the right project to attach them too. They don't want them to take another starring role elsewhere so what the network/studio will do is pay them a fee (ranging from low six figures to low seven figures) to "put them on hold" while they develop the right project for them to star in. The network may even give them a recurring role on another airing series during the course of the deal. These agreements typically last a year. When they are locked in this holding deal, they are not allowed to accept any starring role in any TV show until the agreement expires.