What Should Be, In Your Opinion, The New...
Society & Culture1 min ago
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.A good agent will only take a percentage of your fees when they find you work. This can be typically 15% of what you earn. If you are being asked for money to join an agency then beware. Reputable agents don't take joining fees or money to cover photographs or registration, or administration or whatever else they call it. Bogus agents do... then never get you any work!
A reputable acting school will also act as an agent, at least initially. It's strikes me that even if you went to an agent and hoped for the best, they - bearing in mind it is how THEY are paid - are only going to offer the chance of jobs to those who stand a chance of getting them, those people being trained actors.
I'm not an actor myself, but I live near an acting school (see link below) and for the last ten years I have had students as lodgers. My current lodger no longer attends the school, but has only had one acting job since finishing last September.