Job Duties of an Actor and Actress
What kind of job?
It is a person who portrays a character in a performance.
Duties of this job?
- Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other in order to develop role interpretations.
- Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.
- Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements in order to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.
- Attend auditions and casting calls in order to audition for roles.
- Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble.
- Study and rehearse roles from scripts in order to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed.
- Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role
