Do you need acting experience on your resume to audition for an commercial?

Hello guys, what do I meed on my resume to audition for an commercial or a short movie? Because I'm already a good actress. I've done some acting but I don't think I could put that on my resume. Anyway do I need some experience on my resume or can I just go audition?

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The only reliable way is to get spotted by a visiting agent at one of your drama school's showcase performances.
Agents always prefer to see actors in real performances, to assess their talents.

If you've had several years of high-level training and loads of stage experience, and ideally some film work too, talk to the teachers and ask if you're ready for an agent, and if so, will they let you take part in an up-coming showcase.

For the Disney theme parks, you don't need an agent. They have a whole website with an audition calendar and everything - http://disneyauditions.com/ .

For Disney TV shows/movies, you'll need an agent. You'll also need to be part of SAG-AFTRA and have connections and understand how the business end of the industry works.

Here's how casting for mainstream TV shows and movies generally goes. There's a casting director (CD) hired to find good actors to audition for the production. If the CD knows an actor they think will be good for a role (either a well known actor or just a "regular" actor that the CD personally knows), they can invite that actor to audition.

Most mainstream productions are union productions, which means they have agreements with the SAG-AFTRA actors union for screen actors. (If you're interested in trying to work professionally, you'll have to learn about actor's union). But basically union productions give preference to union actors. So a CD may list a casting call on the union website for union actors or they may search through the union database and invite actors to audition that way.

A CD can also write a "breakdown" (a description of the project and the roles to be cast). They release the breakdown to licensed talent agents through an online network like Breakdown Services. (They're not released to actor or the general public). Agents then review the breakdowns and submit their clients for the appropriate roles. To submit means they send in the actor's professional head shot, resume, and acting reel (examples of their previous screen work) to the casting director. If the CD is interested in the actor, they'll invite them to audition through the talent agent.

Sometimes Disney breakdowns are listed on websites like actors access or backstage or other places. Then you can self submit, which means you send in your head shot, resume, and acting reel on your own without an agent. If they're interested, they'll invite you to audition. Child actors are given more flexibility in this process. As an adult actor, it would be EXTREMELY unlikely that an unpatented, nonunion adult actor would be invited to audition for a Disney show.

It's nice that you have some training and things - but you're not going to just be "discovered" or something. If you're interested in a professional acting career you have to do the research and learn the business end of the industry.

Good luck