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actress

[ ak-tris ]

noun

  1. a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc., especially professionally.


actress

/ ˈæ°ì³Ù°ùɪ²õ /

noun

  1. a woman who acts in a play, film, broadcast, etc
  2. informal.
    a woman who puts on a false manner in order to deceive others
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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

Origin of actress1

First recorded in 1580–90; act(o)r + -ess
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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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