actor
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Cruise’s character is an intentional parallel to his own cinema-championing schtick, an actor who believes every scene he’s in should carry some semblance of the truth.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The actor snapped up the home in 2004 for $4.3 million and transformed it into the mansion it is today back in 2012.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The actor spoke about her role in HBO’s DC Comics series as Zoe Macon, her big reveal in Episode 5 and why she likes playing powerful women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
My Mad Fat Diary actor Sharon Rooney and Industry star Myha'la, for instance, have fewer connections than the others.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Washington was an indisputable American patriarch, but more an actor than a leader, brilliant at striking poses “in a strain of Shakespearean...excellence at dramatic exhibitions.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Digger and all the characters we’ve met so far are actors.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Tom Hanks’ directorial debut, which was released to critical praise but was a box office disappointment, doesn’t hinge on the charming, passable performances of its lead actors.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The geopolitics of the Horn of Africa are fiendishly complex, with shifting alliances and the involvement of many outside actors with conflicting interests.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The tone is more John Hughes than John Carpenter, as you’ll work together with a number of actors to uncover a paranormal mystery that’s consuming a suburban town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The poets who wrote the plays, the actors and singers who took part in them, were all regarded as servants of the god.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing actor
Academy Awards, List 3
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Literary Terms, Part I
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Just Do It: Act
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