How to Find an Agent Who Can Actually Move Your Career
A strategic guide to researching, vetting, and targeting representation that fits your career stage
👋 Hey, I’m Christine. I’m an award-winning actress, industry consultant, and entertainment insider with decades of experience in global film, TV, and theater. My work has been featured by major networks like HBO, Disney, and Ubisoft, and I’ve built a career helping actors gain visibility, land roles, and position themselves for long-term success.
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Before this, we talked about how to navigate agents and managers and what it takes to land your first representative. Now we’re shifting to the practical side: how to actually find the right agent in the first place.
Most actors don’t struggle because they can’t submit to agents.
They struggle because they don’t know who they should be submitting to in the first place.
They grab a list.
They email names.
They hope something sticks.
And when nothing happens, they assume the problem is their talent, their headshots, or their worth.
It’s not always the case.
The real issue is that most actors are searching for representation the way someone scrolls Yelp at midnight looking for a doctor: fast, overwhelmed, and without a system to tell the good from the bad.
Finding an agent is not about volume.
It’s about targeting, fit, and reputation.
This article is about how to find the right agents to begin with, so every submission you send actually has a chance of landing.
Think of this as the research phase—the part most people skip, and the part that quietly separates actors who spin their wheels from actors who move forward.
The Core Problem Actors Don’t See
Actors are taught to believe that agents are gatekeepers you have to impress.
That framing is backwards.
Agents are business partners. And like any business relationship, the outcome depends heavily on fit.
Two actors can submit to the same agent with equally strong materials and get completely different responses—not because one is better, but because one aligns with how that agent works, who they prioritize, the look they are looking for and what kind of clients they actually move.
What makes this confusing is that:
An agent can look impressive on paper and be ineffective in practice
An agent can be well-known and still neglect early-career clients
An agent can be kind, professional, and still wrong for you
None of that shows up in a submission guideline.
So the goal here is not to find an agent.
The goal is to find your agents—the ones whose patterns, behavior, and client outcomes match where you are and where you’re going.
Before We Start: A Mental Reset
I want you to release one idea before reading further:
You are not asking agents for permission to exist. You are already on your path, and an agent is someone you choose to help guide and grow it.
You are evaluating whether a working professional is equipped—and interested—to represent your business.
That shift alone changes how you research, how you observe, and how you move.
Once you stop looking “up” at agents and start looking across at them, the process becomes calmer, smarter, and far more effective.