actor
IPA: ˈæktɝ
noun
- (obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
- (obsolete) Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian.
- Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
- A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
- (obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
- (grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
- (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
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Examples of "actor" in Sentences
- It was mimed in the film by the actors.
- The children help as extra actors in the film.
- But the actor went on instinct and played the role.
- The film fabricated much about the Hungarian actor.
- At the end of the preview, the actors signed on the film.
- The film is loosely based on the lives of some of the actors.
- The grey haired actor usually played studious types in films.
- The actor, however, was ambivalent about the role and his performance.
- The screenplay can change if the actor is a big star and wants changes.
- The director is the craftsman of the film...the actor just appears in it.
- "Because it means I can be seen as an actor as opposed to a child actor."
- The actors continued uninterrupted, and the final shot was used in the film.
- "It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage."
- _actor; _ and when it is nominative to a _neuter_ verb, it is _not_ an actor, but the _subject_ of the verb.
- This actor is awesome so people should know that he is in this movie! he played the Keymaker in MATRIX RELOADED.
- Warner and CBS have been shopping for a name actor who could keep the highly lucrative sitcom afloat without Sheen.
- And you'd also be surprised how expensive one actor and stool can be - depending on who the actor is and what the stool looks like.
- Since then I've held his work in the highest regard, inclusive of his work as both director and lead as the title actor of Pollock (2000).
- In most non zombie related horror movies the villain is most often barely seen for the majority of the movie until it's time for the confrontation with the title actor/actress.
- We have heard several English people describe Talma's countenance, as by no means powerful enough for a great actor; it appeared to us, that in no one respect was he so decidedly superior to any _actor_ on the