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Learn how to be a great actor and slog through your career path until someone recognises your talent and you get a well-paid job in TV / Film.
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Get yourself on a reality-TV show, and make the best of that.
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Get an agent to find you work, doing crappy stuff like adverts for a start, but if you shine they'll find you something better.
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I know kids who are occasionally acting in commercials and short films. It has been a VERY long slog, and they aren't famous by any means and may never be. I don't actually think they have agents; they're just on call when the casting agency they've worked with has a part that might be suitable for them.
There are lots of kids who are "great actors" in the sense used when describing kids. There aren't many who are even _good_ actors in the sense used when describing professionals. It's a skill. It takes practice.
As others have said: If you want to become famous, it's up to you to do something worth being famous for. That takes climbing the ladder. Lots and lots of work. An agent won't even talk to you until it's clear that you can make sufficient money that their commission will more than pay for the time they spend on you, and that's usually many years after you've been acting on a regular basis.
Start by getting work.
Take acting, dance and voice lessons, even if you don't think you need them. Especially if you don't think you need them. Learn some stage combat, acrobatics, clowning, improvisation, and every other performance-related skill you can think of.
Audition for plays in your area at every opportunity. When you get cast in a show, be professional. Show up on time for rehearsals, learn your lines, don't be a distraction when you're not on stage. Make your parents drop you off and pick you up - not hang around during rehearsals offering their opinions about the show to the director.
Keep doing this over and over. You'll know you're on the right track when you get cast a second time by a director. Anybody can get cast once. Getting repeat business means you're good.
Once you've got all of this taken care of, you should also have met and befriended several people in the business who can recommend an agency to approach.
Get noticed.
Do drama at school.
Do well.
Whenever you are in a show, get somebody to take photos & video, as a portfolio to take to an agent, and make sure you invite local press along as well, so that you can collect positive clippings (plus, national press watch local press for stories).
(Maybe that's not quite the type of fame you're after.)
Second, get noticed. If you want to get famous, do whatever you want to be famous for, and do it well. Nobody will want to see your acts if they suck. Practice, practice. If it's good enough, you will get street attention. If you get enough underground/street attention, big buck hollywood companies will notice you and send some talent scouts out.
But I'd rather boycott hollywood any day. I can get famous without them.