Tips for Actors from film, TV and theater

Watch the Tony Nominated Actresses Roundtable Featuring Sutton Foster, Idina Menzel , Kelli O’Hara, Tyne Daly & LaTanya Richardson Jackson

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXapHD-4mBw The Hollywood Reporter got Tony Award nominees Sutton Foster (Violet), Idina Menzel (If/Then), Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Story) and Kelli O’Hara (The Bridges of Madison County) and best actress in a play nominees Tyne Daly (Mothers and Sons) and LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the […]

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How Samuel L. Jackson Learns His Lines for the Marvel Movies (video)

Samuel L. Jackson stopped by Good Morning America earlier this week to talk about Captain America: The Winter Soldier – which is terrific, by the way – and he told Robin Roberts that for the first Cap film, he had trouble learning his lines. “I sat at home and I

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Anthony Mackie on Playing The Falcon in ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’: “I feel like to be in a Marvel franchise can only help me in my career and help me as an actor”

I don’t think many superhero movie fans will be disappointed when they pack theaters to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier this weekend. Part of that is because the movie features the debut Captain America’s sidekick of sorts, Sam Wilson AKA The Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie. Mackie’s Falcon is

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Actors: It’s Time to Add Foreign Languages To Your Skill Set

Watch out, actors, people are paying attention and listening to those accents! With rise in the quality of television, actors might want to pay attention to their language skills as a part of their arsenal. NPR’s All Things Considered recently took a look at the Netflix series, House of Cards,

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Martin Freeman on Starring in the ‘Fargo’ TV Series: “I’m not interested in playing an echo of something that was done 20 years ago. This is its own thing”

Fargo remains one of the highest regarded films of the 1990s, so many people are leery of the idea of FX turning the Coen brothers’ crime masterpiece into a limited television series. Nonetheless, the series will tell a different story than the original film and Joel and Ethan Coen are

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Oscar Isaac on Developing His Character for ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: “You’re trying to make an actual human being, so you take from everything”

Joel and Ethan Coen are known for their character-driven work for creating several unforgettable characters in their films. Who could forget Barton Fink, Marge Gunderson, and (of course) The Dude? Destined to join their ranks is Llewyn Davis, the transient folk musician portrayed by Oscar Isaac in the Coens’ latest

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James Franco’s Biggest Mistake as a Young Actor: “I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice”

James Franco isn’t your typical actor. He’s one that marches to the beat of his own drum from independent films to big budget movies. The 35-year-old also teaches at the university level and is a published author. His latest onscreen venture is playing a meth dealer in a small Southern

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Bob Odenkirk and the ‘Nebraska’ Cast Offer Up Audition Tips: “An audition is a chance to act that day”

Auditions are one of the most important components of an actor’s career. However, it is often an artist’s least favorite aspect of trying to make it in Hollywood. Once you are an established working actor, does the audition process ever change? In a recent Envelope Screening Series with the Los

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Robert De Niro’s One-Minute Acting Lesson

If you’re going to take acting advice from anyone, it should be Robert De Niro. Here’s a 1-minute clip from what, I think, is his appearance on Inside the Actors Studio. In the clip, he states that “actors tend to try and… give it [acting] something.” He goes on to

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The Comic-Con Casting Director Panel Featuring Randi Hiller, Lora Kennedy, Sharon Bialy, Roger Mussenden & David Rapaport

If you’re an actor, you need to watch every minute of this Casting Director panel from Comic-Con!

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What Does it Mean When Agents Say They Have Too Many of ‘Your Type’?

Most of our posts here on Daily Actor focus on the perspective of the actor, but any experienced actor knows that an agent is essential for growth in the industry.

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True Blood’s Chris Bauer is Headed Back to Theater: “I’ve told my children to think of this as though I’m going for a life-saving operation”

The actor, who plays Sheriff Andy Bellefleur, will be appearing in a New York stage production of What Rhymes with America starting in December.

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Nate Parker Shares the Career Advice Denzel Washington Gave Him

Nate Parker, star of the newly released film Arbitrage, starred alongside Washington in The Great Debaters in 2007 and he told Parker that an actors career is determined by the first five roles they take.

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Chazz Palminteri Dispenses Advice to Young Actors and Wants Them to Send Him Their Monologues

It’s funny how people who often claim that they have “street smarts” actually possess none, but that’s not something you can accuse actor/writer Chazz Palminteri of misrepresenting. Born in the Bronx, Palminteri’s A Bronx Tale is viewed as a classic coming-of-age story that dispenses as much wisdom as it does violence. In that vein, Palminteri has started his own website, www.AskChazz.com, to dispense advice for both the movie industry and for life in general. The site has been such a success that Palminteri will be hosting four “Ask Chazz” shows on SiriusXM radio.

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Bryan Cranston’s Advice to Actors

Bryan Cranston knows a thing or two about acting. After all, he’s won three Emmy’s for his portrayal of chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, Walter White, in Breaking Bad. So his advice about his craft is probably worth listening to.

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Cold Reading: What Every Actor Needs To Know

If you have been given a side and very little preparation time, how do you quickly create the behavior of a character?

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Nathan Lane on His ‘Iceman Cometh’ Pre-Show Preparation

During the run of the show, he and actress Laurie Metcalf (who is currently starring as Mary Tyrone in O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night on London’s West End) exchanged emails about the pressures of working with O’Neill’s text, food before shows and pre-show preparation.

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Daniel Radcliffe Used Radiohead to Prepare for “Harry Potter”

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe prepared for filming of the franchise’s eight installments by listening to music from a select few groups.

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Actors: Don’t Be This Guy!

Fabrice Yahyaoui is an actor of many, many faces (as you can tell in the picture below) and he wants to mother f**kin act!

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Amy Poehler’s Harvard College Graduation Speech: “Find a group or people who challenge and inspire you”

Amy Poehler spoke to Harvard’s 2011 graduating class last Wednesday, where she talked about the rules of improvisitaon that she applys to her everyday life, her advice on becoming an actor (“Don’t do it” – at the 4:30 mark) and quoted the wise words of OutKast.

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