Entertainment Industry Resume Templates

Templates for performers, producers, and entertainment professionals.

Credits are the resume, everything else is context

Entertainment hiring runs on credits and on who you worked with, and the resume format follows from that. A traditional chronological layout actively works against you here, because it buries the one thing a casting director or producer is scanning for.

How you present it depends on the role. An Actor resume needs credits grouped by medium, with production, role and director, and it needs to be a single page. A Producer resume needs budget scale, delivery record and distribution outcomes. A Video Editor resume needs the projects, the tools and where the work was seen.

Each template below follows the format that people in this industry actually expect to receive, which matters more here than in almost any other field.

FAQ

Entertainment resume questions about credits and format

Getting the format wrong here costs you more than in almost any other field.

Should I use a standard chronological resume?
What do I do about the periods when I was not working on anything?
How do I list student or unpaid work?
Do I need to name the director or production company?
How much does a showreel matter compared to the resume?

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