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Professionals · code 2655

Actors

Actors portray roles in motion pictures, television or radio productions and stage shows. Tasks include - (a) learning lines and cues and playing parts in dramatic productions on stage, commercials, television, radio or in motion pictures; (b) assuming characters created by a playwright or author and communicating this to an audience; (c) telling stories or reading literary works aloud to educate or entertain listeners; (d) attending auditions and casting calls in order to audition for roles; (e) preparing for performances through rehearsals under the instruction and guidance of production directors; (f) reading scripts and undertaking research to gain understanding of parts, themes and characteristics; (g) acting parts and portraying roles as developed in rehearsals in film, television, radio and stage productions. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Actor - Mime artist - Storyteller Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Stunt artist - 3435 - Walker-on - 3435

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 254 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • actor/actress

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

68.6
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 31.4 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 31.4 = 68.6

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

32.4
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

19.3
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 14.3 · hand skill 14.3 · cramped spaces 29.3 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 32.4 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 56, while the average is 31.4. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 56

    Reading scripts and undertaking research to gain understanding of parts, themes and characteristics

    Medium
  2. 43.5

    Telling stories or reading literary works aloud to educate or entertain listeners

    Low
  3. 32

    Assuming characters created by a playwright or author and communicating this to an audience

    Low
  4. 30.5

    Preparing for performances through rehearsals under the instruction and guidance of production directors

    Low
  5. 26.5

    Attending auditions and casting calls in order to audition for roles

    Low
  6. 20

    Learning lines and cues and playing parts in dramatic productions on stage, commercials, television, radio or in motion pictures

    Very Low
  7. 11.5

    Acting parts and portraying roles as developed in rehearsals in film, television, radio and stage productions.

    Very Low

7 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
58
AI does it for you
24

Helping wins by 34 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2111

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.2. This one is above that.