Published: July 25, 2010
You see how the industry works by the fact that more than 5,000 actors give London as their “location” and only eight give Belfast. There are also nearly twice as many actors with “black” hair as there are actresses with “black” hair: 627 to 348. There is a section called hair length: one in 20 men lists their hair length as “bald”. There are nearly three times as many “blonde” actresses as there are “blond” actors: 1,630 to 595. Two weeks later he bought the Spotlight CDs and realised his mistake. When he was asked to find actresses under 5ft for an Austrian commercial (it was a short women, tall men scenario) he pulled up the list in seconds.When you explore the section on physical description you discover news for geneticists.
Some actresses, such as Elizabeth Hurley, offer no skills.The Search Card is perfect for casting directors. Malcom Bullivant, for instance, who casts commercials, was rung up and asked to get hold of a dozen French-speaking scuba-divers He was only given a day’s notice so he turned the job down. Three-quarters of actresses have a driving licence, but only eight of them have a licence to drive a fork-lift truck. Seventy-seven actresses speak Russian (including Prunella Scales and Frances de la Tour) but only one actress, Evelyn Duah, speaks Ashante as her native language She is also highly skilled at judo, ice- skating and skiing Julia Ormond, watch out. Only 12 actresses in their early thirties list “fire eater” and of those 12 only one can also sing rock.
If you need a fire-eating rock singer in her early-thirties, then call for Fran Isherwood. Only a fraction of actresses (38) list “belly-dancing” as something in which they are highly skilled. Her attention, more like.You could plan a career by looking at “Skills” and working out what no one else can do. The poster for First Knight tells us that for Connery and Gere “their greatest battle would be for her love”.
She’s perfect for action-adventure pictures: she is “highly” skilled at fencing, horse- riding, swimming, lacrosse and painting All that, and she can act too. Under “Skills 1″ click on “piano”, under “Skills 2″ click on “tap-dancing”, under “Skills 3″ click on “ballad- singing” Press Search. This time the programme finds a mere 129 actresses who can do all three.Take a young star like Julia Ormond, who appears above the title with Richard Gere and Sean Connery in the Arthurian First Knight. So hang in there.One way to sort through the 2,637 actresses is to move across the Search Card to the section titled “Skills”. There are only a fifth as many actresses in their late forties as there are in their late twenties.