Film and Theatre Professional CV

What a good one includes

• Clear contact information alongside your agent or manager’s branding, logo, and direct contact details to ensure booking inquiries are handled professionally.
• Prominent display of your union status, such as SAG-AFTRA, Equity, or BECTU, placed right at the top of the page.
• Accurate physical statistics, including height, eye color, hair color, and vocal range, to help casting directors quickly place you in a lineup.
• A clean grid of credits categorized by medium—such as Film, Television, Theatre, or Commercial—featuring the project title, your role, the production company, and the director's name.
• Details of your professional training, including drama schools, specific acting techniques, masterclasses, and notable instructors you have studied under.
• A curated list of highly specific, certifiable skills like stage combat, dialects, musical instruments, or athletic abilities that can add production value to a project.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Embedding large headshot files directly onto the page ruins standard industry formatting and can cause automated casting database systems to reject your file.
• Listing background or extra roles as supporting roles, or inflating your involvement in a production, destroys trust and can blackball you with casting directors who cross-reference credits.
• Applying a standard office-style resume format instead of the industry-accepted column layout for credits makes your experience incredibly difficult for producers to scan quickly.
• Including unrelated retail or corporate day jobs dilutes your professional creative identity and takes up valuable space that should be reserved for your artistic achievements.

Frequently asked questions