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The actor's website: what it really needs
One page done well counts for more than ten empty sections. This is what it really has to have, and what you can leave out.
Your website is the only place where you call the shots. Casting platforms and agency profiles are essential, but someone else controls them. Your website is yours to control, and that is why it is worth having, even a single page. We covered the bigger picture inthe actor's digital presence; here we get into the detail of the website itself.
The domain: your name
If your stage name is free as a .com, register it. It is cheap, it is yours for good and it is what helps you come up when people search for you. Your own domain almost always beats a profile inside a platform, because that profile disappears the day the platform changes its mind.
One page, well ordered
You don't need a menu with eight sections. What you need, in this order:
- A good photo and your showreel up top. Whoever lands here wants to see you work in the first few seconds, not read.
- The essential credits. What's relevant and recent, not an endless list nobody reads.
- Useful details. Languages, height, accents, driving licence, the things castings actually ask for.
- Direct contact. Yours or your agency's, visible without having to hunt for it.
Make it load fast and look right on mobile
Most people who open it do so from their phone, often in a hurry between one casting and the next. If it is slow to load or looks bad, it doesn't matter how good the content is. And mind how the link looks when someone pastes it into WhatsApp or an email: a clean thumbnail with your photo and your name says a lot before anyone clicks.
What you can leave out
In order of damage: generic templates packed with effects, music that starts on its own, text buried inside images (which neither Google nor a screen reader can read), PDFs used as if they were the website, and anything that won't load on a phone. Less, done better, wins every time.
Keep it alive
A website with a showreel from five years ago works against you. You don't have to touch it every week, but you do need to update the material when you change your range, your age or your work. A website that isn't kept up ages worse than having none at all.
Building a website that loads fast, comes up first when people search your name and shows your showreel properly is a craft, not a template. If you want it handled by people who understand audiovisual, web and AI, atKiwop we build it.