actor, actress

actor, actress
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ accomplished, brilliant, consummate, experienced, fine, good, great, talented, wonderful
▪

He's a brilliant actor!

▪

I just signed a talented young actor.

▪ celebrated, famous, leading, principal, star, veteran, well-known
▪ successful
▪ Oscar-winning
▪

Marlon Brando, the two-times Oscar-winning actor

▪ A-list, B-list, etc.
▪ main
▪ bit-part, struggling, unknown
▪ amateur, non-professional
▪ professional
▪ serious, trained
▪ aspiring, wannabe, would-be
▪

The college is offering aspiring actors the opportunity to work with a professional cast.

▪ out-of-work, unemployed (esp. BrE)
▪ character, classical, comedy (esp. BrE), comic, dramatic, Shakespearean, straight
▪

Olivier was hailed as the leading classical actor of his generation.

▪ film (esp. BrE), Hollywood, movie (esp. AmE), screen
▪ television, TV
▪ stage, theatre/theater
▪ child
▪ supporting
▪

the award for best supporting actor

VERB + ACTOR/ACTRESS
▪ hire
▪ audition, cast
ACTOR/ACTRESS + VERB
▪ act (sth), perform (sth), play (sb/sth), portray sb/sth
▪

The same actor plays three different parts in the movie.

▪ rehearse (sth)
▪ audition
▪

He was one of many actors who auditioned for the part of Hamlet.


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