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Daniel Norton
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An actor working in NYC and in Austin, Texas.
See me in Season 2 of “1923”, on Paramount+ & Blu-ray
Reps: Acclaim Talent & The Wayne Agency, East
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“Netflix is the biggest streaming service in the world. Consolidating its power over the streaming video market not only kills jobs but also raises prices and hurts the U.S. entertainment industry.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Hollywood Labor Comes Out Swinging Against Warner Bros.-Netflix Deal: “This Merger Must Be Blocked”
The most severe in its criticism was the Writers Guild of America, so far.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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SAG-AFTRA Statement Regarding Proposed Netflix/Warner Bros. Transaction www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-st...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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SAG-AFTRA Reaches Tentative Agreement with AMPTP on Historic First Intimacy Coordinator Contract
SAG-AFTRA Reaches Tentative Agreement with AMPTP on Historic First Intimacy Coordinator Contract SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement establishing the first-ever collective bargaining agreement covering intimacy coordinators working in scripted, dramatic television, theatrical and streaming productions. The agreement will now go before the SAG-AFTRA National Board for consideration in the coming weeks. Specific details will not be released in advance of the board’s review.
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Today's self-tape was a lot of exciting fun!

#ActorsLife #SelfTape #FilmActor #AustinActor #TexasActor #ATXactor #TXactor
Photo of a man with a very excited face and outstretched arms.
December 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Need a DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) for your short film? I just finished a weekend shoot that generated 1,000 GB of digital files! I’d love to help you wrangle, organize, preserve, and prepare all your video and audio for handoff to your editor.

#DIT #TexasFilm #AustinFilm #ATXfilm #TXfilm
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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RIP and thanks for the experience of performing during nonstop laughter, start to finish. 🎭

#theatre #playwright #NYactor #StageActor #TomStoppard
Cover of script titled "The Fifteen Minute Hamlet" a play by Tom Stoppard
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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ICYMI, #CastingNetworks is raising fees that our reps pay for their side of the service. CN suggests that it will reduce the burden on actors w/o specifying how much it would be reduced. Let’s see both rep & actor fees at the same time!

#ActorsLife #ScreenActor #FilmCasting #TVcasting
October 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Like the audition director I didn’t hear say “action” proceed to condescendingly explain what “action” means.

#ActorsLife #DeafAndHardOfHearing #HoH
sagaftra.org SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · Oct 3
We're featuring a video from a series created by SAG-AFTRA’s Performers with Disabilities Committee. The videos shine an entertaining light on some common stereotypes that performers with disabilities face. Starting with 'True Cringe' for #FeatureFriday this #NDEAM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC0m...
True Cringe
YouTube video by SAG-AFTRA
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October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Commercial slates can get pretty involved.

#ActorsLife #ScreenActor #commercials #AustinActor #TexasActor #ATXactor
Text of nested outline titled "SLATE", showing at least nine components
October 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#ActorsBreathe
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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“It’s hard to push back when you don’t have power, but Bob Iger and Dana Walden have power,” [WGAW President Meredith] Stiehm said of Disney’s CEO and entertainment chair. “They know what this is. This is appeasement. This is cowardice. They’re being bullied. And they should say no."
‘Hour to Hour’: Kimmel Crisis Deepens at Disney as Comedy World Erupts
Dana Walden, Rob Mills & their star attempt a second meeting as top comics fume: ‘There will be careers for people who make fun of the powerful’
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September 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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If comedy is outlawed, only outlaws will have a sense of humor
September 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Do No Harm is the 2nd episode of The Opioid Trilogy on Independent Lens on PBS. It is one of three very personal stories about opioid addiction and treatment.

#AddictionRecovery #OpioidCrisis #EndAddictionStigma #ActorsLife #ScreenActor #TexasActor #AustinActor
September 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Congratulations to the #SagAftraMembers who took home an Emmy — or multiple Emmys — last night! 🎉 #Emmys2025 www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
Who won Emmy Awards for 2025? See the full winners list here.
Netflix's "Adolescence" won big at the 77th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, earning six awards, including best limited series.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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#OTD in 2024. Free haircut!

All episodes of 1923 are now on Blu-ray and streaming on Paramount+

#ActorsLife #1923tv #ParamountPlus
September 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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At first, I thought zin zun zan was an acting studio.

#ActorsLife
September 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I’m ready for my closeup! My first manicure, ever! The audition notes mentioned “hand” or “hands” nine times, even though it’s a tabletop-to-head frame. (And, yes, there’s also a hand photo slate.)

#ActorsLife #ScreenActor #CommercialActor #SelfTape
September 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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The Opioid Trilogy, Ep. 2: Do No Harm premieres on PBS on Sept. 16. (Local time may vary.) The 2nd installment of The Opioid Trilogy follows a 17-year struggle with heroin addiction and path to recovery.

I performed in this rotoscope-animated (reenactment) documentary.

#ActorsLife #ScreenActor
September 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I guess I’d better watch The Departed while I can! Five Oscars in 2007!

#movies #OscarBestPicture #OscarBestDirector #OscarBestSupportingActor #OscarBestAdaptedScreenplay #OscarBestFIlmEditing #Oscars2007 #CrimeMovies
September 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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There is a difference!

#ActorsLife
Timothy Olyphant's Masterclass On Stage Vs. Screen Acting | CONAN on TBS
YouTube video by Team Coco
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August 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My first residuals check!
Just in time to pay September rent!
(This is a typical portion of Distributor's Gross Receipts, DGR, for a day player. It’s divided among all cast and crew working under a union contract.)

#ActorsLife #ScreenActor #TVactor #ATXactor #AustinActor #TexasActor
Photo of a portion of a paycheck showing net pay of 64 cents
August 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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1923 audition vs. final.
Most self tapes stand alone, a single performance for the casting director, each with hope but without expectation that there will be a second audition (callback) or a role in the production. #OTD last year

#ActorsLife #ScreenActor #TexasActor #ATXactor #AustinActor #1923tv
Two photos stacked of a man in a tie and open-lapel collar, top a blank wall captioned "Audition" and bottom with a blurred background captioned "1923 Season 2"
August 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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1923 Season 2 is now available on Blu-ray in stores and online.

#ActorsLife #ScreenActor #TexasActor #ATXactor #AustinActor #1923tv
August 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I do love playing a villain. (From today’s self tape for a role in a feature.)

#ActorsLife #SelfTape #ScreenActor #FilmActor #IndependentFilm
August 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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“This is certainly not the first time that free speech has come under assault in this country, but free speech remains our right because generation after generation of Americans have dedicated themselves to its protection.”
wgaeast.bsky.social Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · Aug 5
Tony Gilroy, Spike Lee, Ilana Glazer, Adam McKay, Liz Merriwether and more than 2,300 WGA members signed onto an open letter decrying the recent attacks on the Free Press.

“Now and always, when writers come under attack, our collective power as a union allows us to fight back.”
PROTECT THE FREE PRESS. TONY GILROY, SPIKE LEE, ILANA GLAZER, ADAM MCKAY, LIZ MERRIWETHER AND MORE THAN 2000 WGA MEMBERS AND ALLIES SIGN OPEN LETTER DECRYING RECENT ATTACKS ON THE FREE PRESS We are members of the Writers Guild of America who speak with one voice to decry the dangerous and escalating attacks on the First Amendment, independent media, and the free press. We are a union of screenwriters, television writers, and journalists built and sustained on the bedrock belief that bold storytelling, fearless comedy, and unflinching reporting are indispensable to a free and democratic society. We have always understood that fidelity to those beliefs could lead to attacks from our bosses, from corporate interests, or even from politicians. Still, we have always understood our role in a healthy democracy. Now we face an unprecedented, authoritarian assault. In the last few months alone, President Trump has filed baseless lawsuits against news organizations that have published stories he does not like and leveraged them into payoffs, most notably at Paramount, which settled a meritless lawsuit against 60 Minutes for $16 million. He has retaliated against publications reporting factually on the White House and threatened broadcasters' licenses. He regularly calls for the cancelation of news and entertainment television shows that criticize him in late-night and, most recently, The View. Alarmingly, the bulk of the federal government has now joined these attacks. Congressional Republicans collaborated to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in order to silence PBS and NPR. The FCC openly conditioned its approval of the Skydance-Paramount merger on assurances that CBS would make "significant changes" to the purported ideological viewpoint of its journalism and entertainment programming. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has echoed Trump's threats. And yet Paramount still asks us to believe that the cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was not about politics or merger approval. These are un-American attempts to restrict the kinds of stories and jokes that may be told, to silence criticism and dissent. We don't have a king, we have a president. And the president doesn't get to pick what's on television, in movie theaters, on stage, on our bookshelves, or in the news. We call on our elected representatives and industry leaders to resist this overreach. We call on our audiences, on every single person ready to fight for a free and democratic future, to raise their voice. This is certainly not the first time that free speech has come under assault in this country, but free speech remains our right because generation after generation of Americans have dedicated themselves to its protection. Now and always, when writers come under attack, our collective power as a union allows us to fight back. This period in American life will not last forever, and when it's over the world will remember who had the courage to speak out.
August 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM