role player

role player

n.1. One who assumes or acts out a particular role.2. One who engages in role-playing.3. Sports A team athlete who plays mainly in specific situations.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	role player - a person who makes deceitful pretensesfaker, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, sham, shammer, pretender, fraud, fakebeguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not truename dropper - someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friendsringer - a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
	2.	role player - a theatrical performer actor, histrion, thespian, playeractress - a female actorbarnstormer, playactor, play-actor, trouper - an actor who travels around the country presenting playscharacter actor - an actor who specializes in playing supporting rolescomedian - an actor in a comedyham actor, ham - an unskilled actor who overactsheavy - an actor who plays villainous rolesingenue - an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girlleading man - actor who plays the leading male rolemime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist - an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expressionperformer, performing artist - an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audienceplant - an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audiencereenactor - a person who enacts a role in an event that occurred earlierscene-stealer - an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene; "babies are natural scene-stealers"movie actor, screen actor - an actor who plays a role in a filmprincipal, star, lead - an actor who plays a principal roleextra, spear carrier, supernumerary - a minor actor in crowd scenestragedian - an actor who specializes in tragic rolesunderstudy, standby - an actor able to replace a regular performer when requiredupstager - a selfish actor who upstages the other actorswalk-on - plays a small part in a dramatic production