noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a character actor (= an actor who plays interesting or unusual characters )
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He’s a well-known character actor.
a comedy actor/actress
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He was voted the top TV comedy actor.
a film actor/star
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John Voight, the American film star, is perhaps best known for his Oscar winning performance in 'Midnight Cowboy'.
a television actor/actress
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Peebles is best known as a television actor.
character actor
renowned author/actor/photographer etc
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a world renowned expert in the field
veteran journalist/actor/goalkeeper etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fine
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But he is not only a fine actor and an even finer dancer he is also uncommonly and unabashedly sexy.
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Hunt and Metta provide some lively moments, but Reed, a fine actor , is mostly reduced to wailing and whimpering.
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Two fine actors vanished before my appalled eyes within a couple of hours on Boxing Day.
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Nigel Hawthorne's performance is wonderful: he is becoming a finer and finer actor .
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Acting is not a profession where you can simply stroll on - although I know a lot of fine actors have done that.
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He has also become one of the finest actors in movies.
good
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Unless they were very good actors , they sounded very convincing to me when they said they were innocent.
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A really good actor has got to be capable of making an enormous fool out of himself.
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During the day I sit banging my drum and watching good actors singing my words.
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Franz won the Emmy as best actor in a drama series for the 1993-1994 season, not Caruso.
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She says she likes Bob Cratchit. he's a good actor , and has a nice face.
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Is there a better actor than Brando?
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They're not offering a degree in stage management or a pass for being a good actor or actress.
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He liked George Birkitt and thought he was a good actor .
great
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The greatest actor in the history of the cinema.
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For one thing, as great an actor as Anthony Hopkins is, there was only one Richard Nixon.
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Kevin Kline's been chatting to John Miller about working with a great actor - himself!
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A great actor portraying a great actor.
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With each new take great actors such as Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox contribute something remarkable and new.
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A great actor portraying a great actor.
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He would have made a great dramatic actor .
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Linklater is great with actors , and most of the performances are terrific.
other
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When he left, the other actors offered him clumsy commiseration, as to some one who had been bereaved.
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I deserted the play, as did the other actors on stage, and leapt into the audience.
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But other theories do enquire and thus have to take an interest in what actors think that other actors think.
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Finally, the state sets the rules of the international system, and all other actors have to work within them.
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But that was not enough. Other actors were instructed to bring on the score.
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There were other actors , too, but those six were the real company.
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The fundholding scheme has entailed costs for other actors in the internal market.
political
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However, the railways are not passive recipients of such political pressure, but political actors and manipulators in their own right.
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Improper behavior by individual political actors or by government agencies is exposed and widely communicated by investigative reporters.
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Traditionally, the study of politics and its relationship to the mass media has focused on institutions and bonafide political actors .
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Do you think any major political actor in any country could keep this promise?
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Each individually named political actor mentioned in an item was coded in the order in which he or she appeared.
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Political interest groups also can provide goods or services to political actors .
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In Belgrade, by contrast, Milosevic had remained a political actor , and a pivot for extreme nationalist forces.
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The focus on the single political actor has analytic advantages, since data gathering and analysis can be precise and intensive.
principal
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For others, governments are to provide the main resources for and be the principal actors in public communication.
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He was the principal other actor in all my fantasies.
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Reporters try to establish what the unfolding events mean to the principal actors concerned.
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Thus the Father had been the principal actor during the period of the Old Testament.
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It is a simplification to banish all but the principal actors from the international stage.
professional
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Male speaker I've never worked with professional actors before.
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Only Ronald Reagan,. a professional actor , has served two full terms.
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He, on the other hand, had been a professional actor in his time; and fêted for it.
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On the second date, the short plays will be recorded in a studio with professional actors .
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They present a complete recording of the text read by a professional actor .
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We are not professional actors , so normal life must go on.
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Produced and performed by Britannia, a locally-based company of professional actors .
social
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It is perfectly obvious that the choices made by creative social actors are limited by the practical resources available to them.
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That becomes clearer, if, fourthly, we notice that ideas have meaning for social actors .
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For Bourdieu the social scientist is as involved in the mêlée of every-day life as any other social actor .
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The outside world is, for the social actor , the opposite of his own home ground.
veteran
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Jolie is the daughter of veteran movie actor Jon Voight.
young
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I had the chance to audition for the transfer to London cast of Another Country which requires young actors to play seventeen-year-olds.
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And it bothers me when I read articles about young actors and athletes who have these opinions about various things.
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Michael was a cracking young actor .
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I suddenly started getting very positive feedback, from agents and other young actors .
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A determined, skilful young actor can get an Equity card and a first job.
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As a young actor you obviously went for a great deal of variety in characters and accents.
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A.R. As a new young actor do you find that at Stratford you become part of a house style?
■ NOUN
character
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In other words, he was still developing the characteristics that would eventually make him a character actor .
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The character actor has appeared in at least 50 motion pictures in a film career that dates to the 1950s.
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I never expected to be much more than a character actor .
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Cyril Shaps, that splendid and irrepressible character actor , David Horovitch and me.
comedy
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His replacement was comedy actor Derek Nimmo.
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Both videos are situations comedies made by a top television light entertainment director and an experienced cast of comedy actors .
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The video has been made using a highly-experienced cast of comedy actors and a top television light entertainment director.
■ VERB
become
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He became an actor by default.
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It used to be, says W, that the greatest aspiration of models was to become actors .
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Now I want to copy the large group of trees - they will become an actor later in the process.
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The drama school audition By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor - nomatterwhat the problems or obstacles.
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In the early 1960s the king became a major actor in the events that led to independence for his country in 1968.
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The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I'd become an actor , a film star.
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A.R. How do you feel about young people wanting to become actors , these days?
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Which rather begs the question why he became an actor .
play
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In both plays the actors are fine and resourceful.
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And in an ironic twist, the Author is played by the same actor as the old farmer.
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Such games can be played with the actor entirely unaware that they are doing so.
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Schwarzenegger, 45, plays a famous actor while Stallone appears as his rival.
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Martin Baptie was played by a local actor .
support
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Benicio Del Toro won the best supporting actor prize for Traffic.
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The meats are unfailingly tender and flavorful, and the stuffed tomatoes deserve a Tony Award for best supporting actor .
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In the assassination, Netanyahu was a supporting actor with an ambiguous role.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a failed actor/writer etc
a frustrated artist/actor/poet etc
an actor turned politician/a housewife turned author etc
artist/actor/teacher etc manqué
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In between travel trips Wilcock ran into a woman at a party who lived with an artist manqué , Walter Bowart.
budding artist/actor/writer etc
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Perhaps she is a budding artist, a future novelist.
marquee player, actor etc
supporting part/role/actor etc
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At a crucial moment, the United States played an important supporting role.
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Benicio Del Toro won the best supporting actor prize for Traffic.
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But the chief joy despite several eye-catching supporting roles remains watching Courtenay milk the script for all its worth.
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He felt the other two were satisfied to play supporting roles to Gedge and to a lesser extent, himself.
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Hopper won a supporting role in that film too.
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Its most unarguable successes are in the main supporting roles.
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The meats are unfailingly tender and flavorful, and the stuffed tomatoes deserve a Tony Award for best supporting actor.
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The three supporting roles are all superbly played.
would-be actor/murderer etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Actor Sidney Poitier was honoured with a Life Achievement Award.
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Ben Chaplin is an English actor who had a small part in 'Remains of the Day'.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is my favourite actor -- he's so good-looking!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His godfather was actor and singer Paul Robeson.
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I read somewhere that Harry Enfield doesn't believe that actors are brave.
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I started out in this business not having any concept about what an actor did.
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I think actors still have a lot of life left in them.
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In 1940 he fell for an actor who was his lover for two years before joining the navy in 1942.
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The actor is dependent on the stimulus of other faces and voices.
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Troublesome Behaviour has been devised by four actors working with director, Martin McNicholas.
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Upon graduation in 1944, he moved back to Chicago, seeking work as an actor .