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