Surviving as a Child Actor
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Surviving as a Child Actor
Having taught acting school Los Angeles young people for over twenty years now, it has been one of my main aims to prevent them from following the same path that I did as a young actor. On the face of it, this may sound a little odd coming from someone who had his own series on TV at the age of 9 and spent a hugely successful period of life from the ages of 9 through to 16 booking commercials, performing radio voice-overs and advertisements, and generally acting with a degree of success designed to make any parents (including my own) very proud. My main problem would not become obvious to me until it was slightly too late to sustain the earlier success. The problem is that being cute and photogenic will only take you to a certain point and more specifically a certain age. Beyond that, no career can expect any sustained success without a solid foundation of
