Your headshot is the first thing a casting director or agent sees. It often sits in a grid of tiny images among hundreds, sometimes thousands, of actors. It is the first-round decider of whether your profile gets a click. It has to work hard for you, so there should be no cutting corners!

Let’s take a closer look at what Spotlight is, why it matters, and why more and more actors and industry bodies are beginning to question whether it's still serving us as well as it once did.