Children have been sexually abused in the entertainment industry and child protection advocates say the same names keep popping up.
Bravehearts founder and CEO Hetty Johnston said the group had been providing police with the names of alleged offenders in the industry for many years and hoped victims would tell their stories to the child abuse royal commission.
"There's been names that have been circulating around for a long time," Ms Johnston told AAP on Monday.
"In the entertainment industry if you upset the director or the producer or your fellow actor - somebody who's got some clout in there - then that's your whole career on the line," she said.
"Hopefully, it's an opportunity for those people who have suffered in this way to talk to the royal commission and provide some protection for the young people who are in that environment now."
The royal commission wants to hear from anyone who has experienced or has information about child sexual abuse in sections of the industry.
Bravehearts ambassador and former child TV star Sarah Monahan last year paid tribute to the women who came forward to give evidence against Australian entertainer Rolf Harris, but said other industry figures, including in Australia, were yet to face justice.
The on-screen daughter and abuse victim of former Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes said while there had been a shift in attitudes in recent years, there was still "a ways to go" in terms of people speaking out against celebrity sex crime perpetrators.
Hughes was last year jailed for the sexual and indecent assault of four young girls including Ms Monahan in the 1980s and 1990s but is appealing the conviction and sentence.
Harris, 85, was jailed in the UK for indecently assaulting four girls in Britain between 1968 and 1986.
During his lengthy trial another six women gave supporting evidence that Harris abused them in Australia, New Zealand and Malta but he was not charged over those alleged incidents because they occurred outside the UK.
Royal commission CEO Philip Reed said its investigation could include TV networks, film and TV production companies, theatrical production companies, casting agencies and dance, drama and performing arts schools.
"The royal commission is aware of instances of child sexual abuse by people working in the entertainment industry," it said.
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