Newest First, By Role, or in Your Own Order
Each credit group on your actor website now has its own sort setting: by year, by role size, alphabetically, or manual, where you drag them into place.
Which to choose
Newest first is the default and it is right for most working actors. It answers the reader's actual question, which is what you have been doing lately.
By role size puts your leads above your co-stars. This is the right choice when your best work is not your most recent work, which happens to everybody at some point and is nothing to be embarrassed about.
Manual is for when neither rule produces the list you want. The most common reason is a single credit that carries disproportionate weight and needs to be at the top regardless of when it happened.
Alphabetical is almost never right for credits. It is there because a few people use the credits system for something other than credits.
The one that reads worst
Oldest first. It is nobody's intention and it happens by accident when a manual order was set years ago and never revisited. Somebody skimming your page sees a 2011 short at the top and forms a conclusion in about a second. Worth checking yours right now.
Years, and whether to show them
There is a switch for hiding years. Use it sparingly. Hidden years read as a gap being covered, and a reader who notices tends to assume the gap is larger than it is.
The legitimate case is a long steady list where the years add clutter and nothing else. If you have a genuine gap, a better answer than hiding is filling: training, a self-produced project, theater. Our piece on ongoing training is relevant, and your training and education page gives it somewhere to live.
Order per group
Each medium sorts independently. Your theater credits can be manual while your television credits are newest first. That is usually what people want, because stage work and screen work are read differently.
Related
Groups come from the credits rebuild. If you want the whole career shown chronologically regardless of medium, that is the timeline view. And the same list feeds your downloadable resume.
Create your free actor website and get your credits in an order you would defend.
