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>>>>Actors have to have a license?
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>>>In the UK it used to be the case (not sure about still) that you had to get an "Equity Card" (like a union membership) in order to act. Trouble is/was it is/was a bit Catch-22 as you couldn't get your card without doing some acting. Don't know how anybody actrually got to be actors.
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>>The Equity Card is a union membership. You can do certain kinds of roles and performances without it, and after a certain number, you're eligible for a card. The daughter of friends of ours just got hers. (The Dad is an actor here in Philadelphia.)
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>>Tamar
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>Aye, I think the rules have relaxed a lot nowadays. e.g. How did the young actors in the Harry Potter series ever get the job, having been taken directly off the street, so to speak?
Looks like the Equity Card is more about stage performance than film:
http://www.actorsequity.org/AboutEquity/index.htmlTamar
