Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Working as a background actor, aka an extra, is part-time work that anyone can pursue. While it's technically in the acting field, you don't need special training or have earned a degree in theater or ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Movies, TV shows, advertisements, music videos, and other productions film all across the state year-round, ...

Jesse Tyler Ferguson has worked with his share of background actors, but one of them who worked on Modern Family stands out, even five years after the sitcom went off the air. The actor recalled ...

No. 59 Oregon men’s tennis (14-8, 5-6 Big Ten) snapped a five-match losing streak in a 4-2 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions (16-11,... Some say April showers bring May flowers, and today the ...

Striking a distinguished look in a gray suit with coiffed white hair, Vincent Teixeira stepped up to the podium, standing in front of fellow film and TV actors who filled the house at the 99-seat ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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.” (CNN) — Technically, ...

Background actors, or extras, have nonspeaking roles in the background of a production and are often not in a union. The roles are paid and typically only last for a day or two, but can sometimes be ...