thespian
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"Critically acclaimed thespian Celia Imrie farts like the rest of us folks," noted showbiz reporter Catrina Rose.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025
He’s a talented thespian who also writes plays; a gentle man, a mentor and a self-described jailhouse lawyer who is preparing for his parole hearing.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025
He used the tactics of a thespian – wild gesticulations, theatrical shifts in cadence – to animate into life the stakes of his subject matter.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2024
Is Timothée Chalamet a sensitive thespian or a swaggy hypebeast?
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2023
Was the parrot—this thespian parrot, impersonating a pirate’s parrot, with a miniature costume eye patch covering one beady little bird eye—was this talented avian of the stage howling?
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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