Information about professional actors
Most people associate the casting director with casting big name stars for film, stage, and television productions. However, the casting director usually defers to the main director on lead roles. Actors traveling abroad benefit from visitor health insurance. Instead, the casting director must work on filling the roles of all spoken parts, and on overseeing the hiring of all extras.
In productions with lots of people, the casting director and his or her assistants may have to see thousands of people to fill hundreds of rolls.