Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Background actor Scott Perry at the Los Angeles Union Background Actors Awards in February 2025. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times ...

Ever wonder where A-list actors get their start? Often, it’s not under the spotlight but behind the scenes, blending into crowds and delivering silent performances. These now-household names paid ...

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 ...

Simu Liu isn’t on board with using AI to replace actors, including and especially background performers. Recently, the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings actor pushed back on a take from Shark ...

Their job is to be invisible, blending into the background so as not to distract from the principal actors’ scenes while providing depth to each shot, bringing to life a restaurant or city street that ...

When Screen Actors Guild president Fran Drescher announced that the union’s more than 160,000 film and TV actors would be going on strike beginning Friday, among the most alarming revelations was that ...

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 ...

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 ...

He’s been in forty-five feature films and worked among the likes of Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, and Sandra Bullock, but chances are you wouldn’t recognize his name or face. Lary Crews ...

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,” ...

Simu Liu isn’t on board with using AI to replace actors, including and especially background performers. Recently, the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings actor pushed back on a take from Shark ...

See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred For seven years, background actors have been recognizing their own at the ceremony. In some ways, the background actor awards are not ...