Talent agent
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A talent agent is a person who finds jobs for actors, musicians, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses.
In North America, the film industry uses the term talent agent to refer to the agent that works for the actor who gets the actor work. There are two types of talent agents: Background agent and Principal agent.
A casting director is the person employed by the production company who looks at hundreds of headshots and holds auditions to pick an actor for a role. Talent agents usually receive 10% of anything their client makes.
Scams are usually pulled from phoney talent agents. The way to know if a talent agent is legitimate is easy. Talent agents usually find clients and demand no money because they initially gain from their clients' successes and they usually find their client by using the expression "discovered".
Talent agents are helpful in the acting business, they can get inside info on all of the current gigs and they also take off all the stress of finding a job so that clients can focus on the audition.
