To The Parents Of Child Actors

Message for child actors and their parents:

In addition to the teenage and adult aspiring actors who come to ActingCareerStartUp.com, there are also a fair amount of parents of child actors who come to visit us as well for some advice on how to manager their daughters' and sons' acting careers. Recently a mother asked me a question. Below you'll see my answer.

QUESTION: Hello, I would like to save some money for me and my daughter so I have decided to become her agent. What can I do? Any information you have about starting an acting career would be appreciated.

ANSWER: First of all, talent agents don't cost money. Usually agents take 10-15% of whatever the pay is for a job AFTER the actor has actually done the job.

If you really want to learn how to be an agent, what better place could there be to go to than to study real agents and learn what they do, why they do what they do and so on.

Find out where you can find good, reputable talent agents first of all.

That's the same thing I tell new and aspiring actors. It has to do with the business side of acting. Agents are one of the actor’s customers. In other words, the actor has to 'sell him/herself' so to speak to agents, casting directors, producers, directors, production companies and so, just like a company, they need to learn how to do that.

My advice for any parent of child actors would be to go ahead and get a real agent. There are a couple of reasons for that.

1. It will take you a long, long time to be able to get hooked into the kinds of breakdowns and projects that you will want for your daughter. Only well-connected and experienced agents will be able to do that.
2. It will free you up to help your daughter get better as an actress and to help her doing the rest of her marketing, which she will inevitably need.

Get your daughter in classes first. She won't get any good parts unless she's trained. As the parent of a child actor you will also want to make sure you help her choose the acting school and teacher that are right for her. Put together a strategy that is based on a vision of what you want your daughter’s future as an actress to look like and that is supported by a solid plan. In order to do that though, as the parent of a child actor, you will need to learn a lot about the business yourself in order to be able to help her.

There is really a lot to say on this subject, but I have covered the basics and given you a lot of information you can follow up on at the same time. This would be a good page link for the parents of child actors to find a lot more good information and advice.

Lastly, I would recommend to parents to encourage their acting children to read and stay informed of things she can do as well, at least so she has an idea of what mom is doing for her acting career. You can send her to this page of information that has 23 links on it especially for teen aspiring actors. The links cover just about any imaginable aspect to starting an acting career.

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Hi Tony
I would like to thank you for helping me with the monologue question I asked in October 2007. I went to the auditions for a Drama course and I am happy to say that I have been accepted as a first-year student at the Tshwane University of Technology. Please keep on sending me those newsletters and let me know where I can find books that will help me in my acting career. Thank you once more. Have a blessed day.
Sincerely
Edward Thaba -South Africa

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Hi,
I was wondering if there is anything established like actingstartup.com in the U.K. because you are amazing and I have learned loads...
Thank You.
Nadine., Newcastle, UK

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Dear Anthony,
Just wanted to thank you for bringing me in to [audition for the video], meet you and chat this Saturday. I was really excited to hear about your working on actingcareerstartup.com and even took a look at it today - it's awesome! You are very well-spoken, knowledgeable and enthusiastic, and it shows through the work that you do! I hope our paths in the industry will cross again and really enjoyed meeting you. Thanks, again and best wishes with your very important work!
Warmly,
Gretchen, NY, NY

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Hey Tony, thanks for the info, yours by far is the most useful, I am 30 years old, and I myself always (secretly) wanted to be an actress, but I never knew where to begin, so thank you. You have given me hope!
Ana C., Tampa, FL

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Hi, I’m John.
You answered a question for me about two weeks ago about how to write my cover letters…I want you to know your advice was helpful. I got called in for a part as an extra in my first movie! It’s not big, but it’s my first one! Thanks for your help!
John, San Diego, CA