Based on real life events, Acting Up brings you the trials and tribulations of Emily Harland - 20 something, living in the big smoke, trying to catch a break in the Mecca that is known as "The Industry."

Emily can't hold down a 9-5 and quite frankly, she doesn't give a shit. She wants to be an actress and life is not being kind to her... Follow her journey along with her flatmates Nikki; HR dynamo and ultimate voice of reason and Connor; photographer & brooding loveable rogue - on their journey to figuring out life and all the bullshit in between.