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actress
[ ak-tris ]
noun
- a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc., especially professionally.
actress
/ ˈæ°ì³Ù°ùɪ²õ /
noun
- a woman who acts in a play, film, broadcast, etc
- informal.a woman who puts on a false manner in order to deceive others
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Usage
Use of the word actress to refer to a female who acts is old-fashioned. The modern gender-neutral form is actor
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Gender Note
What's the difference between actress and actor? See -ess.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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Game operators can find a steady supply of labor in a city famously thick with struggling actresses and models.
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She was not an actress, but she held her own in that film.
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When new Doctor Who companion Varada Sethu first told her family she wanted to be an actress, there wasn't immediate support.
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Kim wept as he said that although he dated the actress for a year when she was an adult, they never dated while she was underage.
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Having won a Golden Globe, Chamberlain then picked up another as Father Ralph de Bricassart in The Thorn Birds, a priest torn between God and his sexual longing afor the actress, Rachel Ward.
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