actor
noun /ˈæktə(r)/
/ˈæktər/
- Both lead actors (= the ones who play the main parts) are outstanding.
- She is one of the country’s leading actors.
- a stage/film/movie actor
- a Hollywood actor
- The movie starred a bunch of relatively unknown young actors.
Wordfinder- actor
- cameraman
- cinema
- dialogue
- director
- dub
- film
- location
- scenario
- sound effect
WordfinderTopics Film and theatrea1, Jobsa1- actor
- audition
- body double
- cameo
- cast
- play
- role
- star
- stuntman
- understudy
- a person who plays a part, pretending by their behaviour to be a particular kind of person
- I don't know if he really meant the things he said—he was always a good actor.
- (formal) a participant in an action or process
- Employers are key actors within industrial relations.
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting an agent or administrator): from Latin, ‘doer, actor’, from agere ‘do, act’. The theatre sense dates from the 16th cent.