Genre films remain the most likely to feature female protagonists. 26% of horror leads were women, while females fronted 24% of dramas, 21% of comedies, 16% of action movies, 8% of sci-fi films and just 5% of animated movies. Everyone knows what actors do: they use their voices and bodies to tell stories. One of the world’s oldest professions, acting is in many ways a unique vocation, the core of which stays the same whether an actor is performing onstage with a theater company, lending their voice to a video game or animation, or filming an advertisement. Actors embody, entertain, and, well, act. They get up on stage, before the camera, or behind the microphone and create a performance that engages, entertains, incites, and affects their audience.
