Hollywood is digitizing background actor payroll, replacing paper workflows with faster, more accurate systems that reduce ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Movies, TV shows, advertisements, music videos, and other productions film all across the state year-round, and these productions often require background actors. Becoming a ...

He’s been in forty-five feature films and worked among the likes of Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, and Sandra Bullock, but chances are you wouldn’t recognize his name or face. Lary Crews ...

After my back-up plan to my back-up plan crashed and burned, I wound up in "extra land." I became a background actor - no experience required. I played everything from a creepy nun to a Hasidic Jew to ...

When background actors secure a job, most expect to be working a few days, at most. They don’t expect to be working every day for months. Last July, a casting call went out for a new show, “The Pitt,” ...

Long overlooked, film extras enjoy their moment at the 8th Annual Los Angeles Union Background Actors Awards Wearing an impeccable blue suit, Daniel Armella steps into the spotlight to receive an ...

Striking a distinguished look in a gray suit with coiffed white hair, Vincent Teixeira stepped up to the podium, standing in front of fellow film and TV actors who filled the house at the 99-seat ...

Other than narrator and series creator Rod Serling, the prolific background actor has the largest number of appearances on the program. McCord (pictured above in Season 5, Episode 1) is so seamless in ...

From enduring bad haircuts to avoiding stunt people, the author of 'Unfortunately, I Was Available' details the dos and don'ts of life as a film and TV extra. By Jon Hart After my back-up plan to my ...