Actor

Actor

An actor (sometimes actress for female; see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic or comic production and works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. The ancient Greek word for an "actor," ὑποκριτής (hypokrites), means literally "one who interprets"; in this sense, an actor is one who interprets a dramatic character.

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    “The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.”
    —Alla Nazimova (1879–1945)

    “While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)