Actors
SOC Code: 27-2011
Actorss collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble. This career typically requires moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year). With an AI-proof score of 98.0/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Speaking, Speaking, Reading Comprehension.
AI-Proof Score: 98.0 — Very High
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Median Salary
$78,000
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Job Growth
0.3%
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Training Time
Moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year)
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Job Zone
Zone 2 / 5
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Training Cost
~$5,000
Key Skills
- •Speaking
- •Reading Comprehension
- •Social Perceptiveness
- •Active Listening
- •Writing
- •Coordination
Common Tasks
- ✓Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble.
- ✓Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.
- ✓Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role.
- ✓Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.
- ✓Study and rehearse roles from scripts to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation