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Actually acting is a suck ass profession except for the elite. The Screen Actors Guild now has over 100,000 members, but the median income is only $25,000. Only about 10,000 of those members even have fairly steady acting gigs. Out of that only about 1,000 are in the league of over $100K a year, and out of that only a couple hundred can command 6 and 7 fig "star" salaries.
Its not a good career choice at all unless you have a connection to someone already in the biz with a lot of power who can get doors opened for you.
The money the handful of elite actors gets is way up there. Because of her Oscar win Reese Witherspoons new rate just jumped to $29 Million per film for example.
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