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 ...

Reservation Dogs writer and actor Dallas Goldtooth knows what it feels like to work your way up in Hollywood. His career has ...

While not as life-changing as starring in a lead role, getting cast as an extra still has its benefits. Background actors are essential to bringing scenes to life. Think of any action sequence with ...

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 ...

The 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship came to a close on Saturday with Georgia securing the women’s national title. Sixteen... Friday’s rendition of the NCAA Track and Field National ...

A lot of people think they ought to be in pictures, but Ann DellaMonica has actually done it. The Wantagh resident, 67, said she has been a hospital visitor on the Showtime series “Nurse Jackie,” an ...

For 100 years, Hollywood has relied on Central Casting. It's the real company behind movie extras — and where stars like Gary Cooper, Hattie McDaniel, and Brad Pitt got their start.

Central Casting opened its doors 100 years ago to aspiring stars flocking to the Southland, giving such actors as Brad Pitt and Jean Harlow background work before their big break.

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,” ...

(CNN) — Technically, Christopher Clark was a background performer on a recent episode of “And Just Like That…,” but he doesn’t mind if you refer to him as “the extra extra.” That’s because the actor – ...

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 ...