I want to be an actress in Hollywood. I played in three plays but I don't know how to be a Hollywood star?

If anyone tells you how to become a star in Hollywood, they are not telling you the truth. No one knows for sure how to do this. Even movie companies and television companies in Hollywood and other cities around the world never know who will be a star or not even if they give someone every chance.

That "star" effect is mostly unpredictable - although experienced film and television company leadership with experience can sometimes guess correctly. Most of the time they are wrong. It does not happen all the time - making a "star".

The same is in your country and everywhere else - no one really knows in advance how and if you will be a "star". You can only try things, see what others have done, learn, get the skills and experience that would help you, research it more etc. That being said, I went through the Mahalo pages quickly to see if anything can maybe help you learn more about it. The best page that I know of for finding someone who wants to be a star, is doing everything right, and yet after 7 years in Hollywood auditioning for anything they think they might get - is still on Twitter speaking about their main job - a waitress.

I came across her when she had applied for a job at Mahalo, and they had a kind of talent competition for who would be on their weekly computer show Mahalo Daily as the host. She was a finalist: Sarah Atwood. You can click on any colored hilighted word to go to another page, then click backspace when you want to come back to the previous page.

This is the Mahalo Acting page. There are many kinds of how to pages that can help you increase your chances maybe of becoming a "star" but as I said, no one knows the answer who will or will not, can or cannot be a star, and how will it or will it not happen because it is not just ability, education, training, talent, resume, audition tapes, who your agent is, how long you audition for work, how many audition fees you have paid to audition (that is why everyone has other jobs - they charge money to audition for work, it costs to live, to rent a place, can you legally work, can you find a job, what kind of job can you do, how many years can you wait, how long can you legally get into the country, do you have money to return to Romania if it does not work out in Hollywood, how much prior experience you have in film and television and commercials and modelling and singing and dancing and hosting and computer podcasting, and teaching students, and voice work, and improv comedy, and standup comedy, and how many special skills you have, and whether your Engilsh is perfect with no accent or not, etc.Because there is always that X factor of luck also..... and these were written for American and may not work at all in your local Romanian film and television industry or in Europe where you may be qualified to work, where you may not be qualified to work in America.... How to Become a Rock Star How to Become a Movie Star How to Become a Pop Star How to Become a Soap Opera Star How to Become a Disney Channel Star How to Become a Child Star How to Become a Reality TV Star There is a lot of instruction on how to apply for and audition for various opportunties - I am not sure, but think that of the whole bunch maybe Cirque du Soleil operates also outside of North America but you can check that. How to Audition for Cirque du Soleil How to Become a Cirque du Soleil Performer How To Get On Tv How to Become a Game Show Contestant How to Become a Contestant on American Idol How to Become a Contestant on Deal or No Deal How to Become a Contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire How to Become a Contestant on Wheel of Fortune How to Be on The Marriage Ref How to Become a Contestant on Jeopardy How to Become a Contestant on Shark Tank How to Become a Contestant on America's Best Dance Crew How to Become a Contestant on So You Think You Can Dance How to Become a Contestant on America's Next Top Model How to Become a Contestant on America's Got Talent How to Become a Movie Extra Then there are pages that talk about how to apply for more education, how to get experience, etc. But as you must know a degree in acting may not help you get work, just as having no training may not hold you back if the right opportunity comes up - but no one can predict for sure..... How to Become an Actress How To Become An Actor How to Become a Singer How to Become a Voice Actor How to Become a Teen Actress How to Become an Opera Singer How to Get Into Film School You can certainly learn a lot more about acting in the Mahalo pages Category Film Actresses http://www.mahalo.com/category/film-actresses Category Television Actresses http://www.mahalo.com/category/television-actresses Category Actresses http://www.mahalo.com/category/actresses Category: Stage Actresses http://www.mahalo.com/category/stage-actresses To start you off here are a few actors that were from Romania to start off your research.

Remember, half of all the people who use Mahalo are in North America, and the rest are so scattered all over the globe that they cannot have in depth information about every single non American topic in every country. So you may find much better places for you to research Romanian acting possibilities and European ones that you may have a much easier time getting legal permission to do there. Alina Vacariu A Romanian actress and model they say, interesting that she is an aspiring forensic biologist http://www.mahalo.com/alina-vacariu How to Become a Biologist Bucharest lists 2 actresses as famous residents - it does not say if they ever were in Hollywood or not, you could research that further http://www.mahalo.com/bucharest Sebastian Stan is an actor from Romania who is an actor in America. Perhaps you can research him further.

I noticed that he attended University at a respected American university. Tuition and application information for programs can be found usually on the university website. International students may get a higher fee because they don't pay taxes in the host country.

http://www.mahalo.com/sebastian-stan I don't know if any of the material I gave you links to mentions it, but volunteer work is one way to get experience in many fields. Here are a few pages on that, How to Volunteer, Charity, How to Take a Volunteer Trip although local and regional and national job search places may have other opportunities, in North America larger cities often have a Volunteer Association that matches volunteers with activities, I have also seen jobs for actors to tour for charities or charity topics such as teaching children something or sharing knowledge about addictions etc. That often pay but not at a professional level at least on this continent I have seen such. You need to take every precaution for safety re: potential employers etc. As you would with any new activity - that is where professional acting organizations can help re is the organization a member of a professional association or do they recommend working for that company/person etc. Or have there been complaints also if there is a local Better Business Bureau if you have such an organization that takes complaints about services etc.You may find a local film association, university or college or actor group or television shows that you can get free tickets to see how things work, or there may be an independent filmmakers association where the members may be making low or non budget films and no one gets paid at all or very little and only to key players with the rest as volunteers.....etc. Also film and television companies may have other positions.

If you are going to be a secretary anyways why not do it in the field of interest etc.Just some ideas off the top of my head. But I don't have any copy of a disclaimer to post, that is, no one here answering these questions gives any guarantee that anything will work and you should always seek professional advice from a professional association first not strangers on a computer or anywhere else. In America there is a professional association for all actors to join with branches for film and television.

Are you a member of a professional acting guild in Romania? Or does it exist there? If not is there some professional acting association or guild for film and or television actors in Europe or the closest major countries that you can find the websites for and find information and advice from and also contact them?

The thing in North America I believe, is that if you qualify to join a professional association or guild after you have certain length of experience in work that qualifies as that, and you also pay your membership fees, then you fall under the rules of that guild and cannot any longer work for free or less than the set professional fee without an exemption application from the company being approved. So, for example if you did 3 plays for free with no pay you still would not qualify to join, you would have to be accepted as I understand it for work that is rated as professional level with that pay, and pay the license fees. So maybe the question is not so much how can I become a Hollywood star, but even how can I qualify for work at a professional level in my own country or continent, and is that a good idea?

As the dilemma is that once you are professional level you have to keep up your professional fees every year, and the number of professional qualifying jobs is a very tiny fraction of the jobs that are free or not at professional pay level so you may need to sit for years in between professional jobs potentially with so few opportunities locally so I don't even know if that is what it is like there, but in North America please look up the websites of places like the Screen Actors Guild of America and if I understood it correctly those are the kinds of concerns you will have. Take a look at the materials that Sarah Atwood has gathered. Also do an Internet search on her name to find other places she may be participating to find more info.

For film and television, to audition, to compete with everyone else following the accepted procedures, you will need documentation of your acting ability, I forget the name of it you need to make some video clip or clips of your acting, and an acting resume, and photos, etc. Etc. So you can see those samples for Sarah Atwood if not on her Mahalo page then elsewhere to get an idea. I think I remember she mentioned on Twitter or her blog that she had a hosting reel.

That is if you want to be a television host on a show. But for other work you would need other kinds of samples.It is not a simple thing to make it work in real life. On the pages they make everything simplified so that you can get a start, an introduction.

In real life you have to fill in the details yourself.So, some questions come to mind. In Hollywood they have mostly film and television. You said that you have done 3 http://www.mahalo.com/category/film-actresses0 do you have experience in film or television?

If you don't know the differences between stage, film and television work - there is a start for your research. How do you know you want to be a star even if you don't know what film and television work is like? Universities and colleges, filmmaking groups, even high schools sometimes with arts programs may have workshops, courses or longer programs.

You can also read, watch videos, see the genre you aspire to be working in. Do you even know whether you can or will like to act to no audience? You know, it is different.

On stage, you do something brilliant and the audience lets you know what they think good or bad right away. In television you may spend hours doing the same movement over and over so that the camera angle can catch it from all directions and no one says anything. On stage you almost shout so they hear you.

On camera they can see every twitch of your eyes and face and you have to control it all in fine work. Have you seen a stage actor that is famous in their first few films? You like them because they are famous, but if you really look, they are usually terrible playing to a grand roomful of people when really they have to play to a space that is a few feet in front of their face as if one person is there, and they may do all of their scenes and never see the other person because they do the scenes out of order so you may do one scene at different times in pieces over a week and never see it all together you have to focus to keep continuity and props the same or all of a sudden your hat is not on, then it is on, you have to keep inventory of every detail.

I think you have to learn a few things before you can consider working on any television or film set even as the extra that has to do one thing in the background. A star may spend a year or two or more in one film full time, that is because they do everything over and over again in pieces much much much much more detailed than in television which is a speed race in http://www.mahalo.com/category/film-actresses1 you even want to do something like that? That is the question.

Then, can you learn to do it, are you any good at it, are you so good you maybe could be a star one day? Just a few points. For fun, I once volunteered to do a film shoot for one night.

They had the restaurant all night. The room was full of volunteers all excited at the start of the night. By the next morning we were sick of it.

They spent all night on two scenes in a restaurant filming not more than 5 minutes of actual action. They had given the volunteer position of the waitress to a real waitress thinking that they would know how to do it best, but as soon as the cameras started rolling they could not serve the couple, ask them something using specific words, move to the exact spot they had to be in, stay in the camera focus exactly in the space they were told to be in and not moving out of it, they kept forgetting their lines, they only had a few lines. It was to much for them.

They got the hands right but not the feet.CUT. They got the feet right but not the hands. CUT.

They got the hands and feet right but stuttered or spoke too soon or too late.CUT. They did not put the food down right they forgot.CUT. A scene that was supposed to take ten minutes to take took hours, finally they had to give up and change the script to make it simpler.

The person just did not know that in real life they were not in control of their body. First they had to learn to walk, talk, and move at the same time within a few inches and to the right second -that person could never be a star unless they went home and practiced for months maybe years. Good Luck!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.