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Hi everyone

I guess I need to read my way through this site, but thought I would start by saying hello and asking if anyone has advice for me.

We are moving back to the North West from several years living in the Nethelands next month with our 10 year old DS. DS has been acting professionally in Holland for the last 5 years and has had roles (some leading ones) in quite a few movies and tv series here. He has quite a list of credits on IMDB and has been in 2 International Emmy Nominated films/tv series - just to give some background.

DS really hopes to carry on with acting once we have moved so I need to start figuring out the whole agent business in England as it works pretty differently then in Holland from what I can see. From experience my DS hardly ever gets booked for tv commercials (only ever done 5 big ones in the last 5 years) or modeling work and most of his roles have been fairly serious characters in films and series. (He is currently filming a kids tv series here and will be till the end of the summer, but again it is a fairly serious character he is playing)

So I guess my question is, which of the agents may be more geared upto him? I think signing him (or trying to at least ) with an agent with lots of tv commercials etc, is not going to be the best fit for him. Any tips on which agent sounds like it would be worth us trying?

And second question is what is the etiquette for contacting agents - one at a time or is it ok to send of a bunch of emails and see who replies?

Many thanks in advance for anyone is can offer me any pointers
Amanda

Definitely approach several at a time. Look at their websites or give them a call to see how they prefer to be approached.

Does your son have any kind of showreel or could you put one together? That could be very helpful in your search.

The best thing is to take your time and do your own research.

Look for the sort of work their clients get and make your first approaches to those whose clients get the kind of work you hope your son will get.

Contacts, published by Spotlight, lists most UK agents.

Avoid any that will take him on without a meeting, any that have hundreds and hundreds on their books and any that make any kind of upfront charge.