Career Description:
Actors perform roles in motion picture, television, and radio productions.
Actors/Actresses Duties May Include:Actors and actresses perform some or all of the following duties:
Study and rehearse lines, gestures and expressions to interpret a role.
Portray roles in video or motion picture productions, television shows, theatre productions, radio dramas, commercials and other productions or perform the narration.
Sing or dance as required by specific roles.
Prepare for and attend auditions for roles.
Perform comedy acts in nightclubs alone or as members of comedy troupes.
Actor/Actress Descriptions:
The word actor refers to a person who acts regardless of gender, while actress refers specifically to a female who acts, therefore a female can be both. As actress is a specifically feminine word, some feminists assert that the word is sexist. Gender-neutral usage of actor has re-emerged in modern English,[4] especially when referring to male and female performers collectively, but actress remains the common term used in major acting awards given to female recipients and is still common in general usage.
The first recorded case of an actor performing took place in 534 BC. the Greek performer Thespis stepped on to the stage at the Theatre Dionysus and became the first known person to speak words as a character in a play or story. Prior to Thespis' act, stories were only known to be told in song and dance and in third person narrative. In honour of Thespis,a 6th century B.C poet, actors are commonly called Thespians. Theatrical legend to this day maintains that Thespis exists as a mischievous spirit, and disasters in the theatre are sometimes blamed on his ghostly intervention.
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