The following is a guest post from actress, Claire Winters, co-founder of the fantastic actor resource website, Brains of Minerva, which we spotlighted here a while back. In acting circles it’s called The Move – no adjectives necessary. It’s the westward migration, the pilgrimage to The City of Angels, the land of the entertainment industry’s [...]
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As you know, here at YII, we LOVE getting the inside story on successful professionals in the biz, as well as finding out about great resources we can all use. In this case, we’re getting both! Sarah Sido and Claire Winters are dedicated working L.A.-based actors who have taken their own “lessons from the trenches” and the expertise [...]
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Though Robert Walters launched his entertainment career in NY while in grad school and then lived in Los Angeles for a few years, he is a great example of someone who has connected with existing entertainment-related opportunities in his “outside LA” area and formed his own creative community for getting his stories out there. Robert is [...]
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Jason Schwartzman is an actor who currently stars in the HBO series, “Bored to Death.” He was interviewed on the best radio show in the history of the planet (IMHO), Fresh Air with Terry Gross, earlier this week. I got a chance to listen to the podcast of it this morning and I must say, [...]
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Though Robert Walters launched his entertainment career in NY while in grad school and then lived in Los Angeles for a few years, he is a great example of someone who has connected with existing entertainment-related opportunities in his “outside LA” area and formed his own creative community for getting his stories out there. Robert is [...]
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As I’m sure you know, there are a lot of people trying to make a name for themselves as actors. And it’s a hard thing to do. The odds are stacked against you based not on your talent or your looks, but simply because of the numbers. Rough, I know. But here are some things you [...]
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You have probably seen actor Eric Lange as the coach on an episode of “Modern Family” or as Radzinsky on ”Lost” or in any one of many other parts he’s had in the past couple of years. He has been working for a while now, but as he says in his profile, it wasn’t until he settled on his current [...]
Read More →Like Hollywood Mom Blog which we recommended earlier this year, ChildrenInFilm.com was created to provide information about children working in entertainment. While Hollywood Mom Blog is written from the point-of-view of the mother of a child actor (actually several mother/managers now write for it), and has a fun, friendly tone, and free content (with advertising its only [...]
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A seasoned actor who has been onstage at some of the top regional theaters in the country as well as in well-received indies and short films, Lester Purry’s maiden voyage into the land of motion capture was both unlike anything he’d done before and, in some ways, a lot like things he’d done before. Here’s his story of [...]
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Actress Jennifer Dawson is a perfect example of someone who launched their entertainment career from afar and then, with some professional experience under her belt, relocated to Los Angeles to make it big in her chosen profession. She has also utilized modern technology and her growing network of talented friends and associates to create and star [...]
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