actor, actress

▶ noun PERFORMER, player, trouper, thespian; film star, matinee idol, star, starlet; informal ham; Brit. informal luvvy; N. Amer. informal hambone. See list.

Related Terms

histrionic.

Actors and Actresses

Abril, Victoria (Spanish)

Adjani, Isabelle (French)

Aimée, Anouk (French)

Alda, Alan (American)

Aldridge, Ira (American)

Allen, Woody (American)

Alleyn, Edward (English)

Andress, Ursula (Swiss)

Andrews, Julie (English)

Arquette, Patricia (American)

Arquette, Rosanna (American)

Ashcroft, Peggy (English)

Astaire, Fred (American)

Attenborough, Richard (English)

Auteuil, Daniel (French, b. in Algeria)

Aykroyd, Dan (American)

Bacall, Lauren (American)

Bancroft, Anne (American)

Banderas, Antonio (Spanish)

Bankhead, Tallulah (American)

Bara, Theda (American)

Bardot, Brigitte (French)

Barrault, Jean-Louis (French)

Barrymore, Ethel (American)

Barrymore, Lionel (American)

Basinger, Kim (American)

Bates, Alan (English)

Beatty, Warren (American)

Belmondo, Jean-Paul (French)

Bergman, Ingrid (Swedish)

Bernhardt, Sarah (French)

Betterton, Thomas (English)

Bloom, Claire (English)

Bogarde, Dirk (British, of Dutch descent)

Bogart, Humphrey (American)

Bonham-Carter, Helena (English)

Booth, Edwin (American)

Bow, Clara (American)

Boyer, Charles (French)

Bracegirdle, Anne (English)

Branagh, Kenneth (English)

Brando, Marlon (American)

Bridges, Jeff (American)

Bridges, Lloyd (American)

Bronson, Charles (American)

Brooks, Louise (American)

Brooks, Mel (American)

Bullock, Sandra (American)

Burbage, Richard (English)

Burton, Richard (Welsh)

Cage, Nicholas (American)

Cagney, James (American)

Caine, Michael (English)

Callow, Simon (English)

Campbell, Mrs Patrick (English)

Candy, John (American)

Carlyle, Robert (Scottish)

Chan, Jackie (Hong Kong)

Chaney, Lon (American)

Chaplin, Charlie (English)

Chase, Chevy (American)

Chevalier, Maurice (French)

Christie, Julie (British, b. in India)

Cibber, Colley (English)

Cleese, John (English)

Clements, John Selby (English)

Clift, Montgomery (American)

Clooney, George (American)

Close, Glenn (American)

Colbert, Claudette (French)

Collins, Joan (English)

Connery, Sean (Scottish)

Cooper, Gary (American)

Costner, Kevin (American)

Courtenay, Tom (English)

Courtneidge, Cicely (Australian)

Crawford, Joan (American)

Crosby, Bing (American)

Cruise, Tom (American)

Curtis, Jamie Lee (American)

Curtis, Tony (American)

Cusack, Cyril (Irish, b. in South Africa)

Cusack, Sinead (Irish)

Cushing, Peter (English)

Dafoe, Willem (American)

Dalton, Timothy (Welsh)

Davis, Bette (American)

Day, Doris (American)

Day-Lewis, Daniel (English)

De Niro, Robert (American)

Dean, James (American)

Delon, Alain (French)

Dench, Judi (English)

Deneuve, Catherine (French)

Depardieu, Gérard (French)

Depp, Johnny (American)

Diaz, Cameron (American)

DiCaprio, Leonardo (American)

Dietrich, Marlene (American, b. in Germany)

Dixit, Madhuri (Indian)

Donat, Robert (English)

Douglas, Kirk (American)

Douglas, Michael (American)

Dreyfuss, Richard (American)

Dunaway, Faye (American)

Duse, Eleonora (Italian)

Eastwood, Clint (American)

Elliott, Denholm (English)

Evans, Edith (English)

Fairbanks Jr, Douglas (American)

Fairbanks Sr, Douglas (American)

Farrow, Mia (American)

Fields, W. C. (American)

Fiennes, Ralph (English)

Finlay, Frank (English)

Finney, Albert (English)

Flynn, Errol (American, b. in Australia)

Fonda, Bridget (American)

Fonda, Henry (American)

Fonda, Jane (American)

Ford, Harrison (American)

Foster, Jodie (American)

Gable, Clark (American)

Gambon, Michael (Irish)

Garbo, Greta (American, b. in Sweden)

Gardner, Ava (American)

Garland, Judy (American)

Garrick, David (English)

Gere, Richard (American)

Gibson, Mel (Australian, b. in America)

Gielgud, John (English)

Gish, Lillian (American)

Goldberg, Whoopi (American)

Goldblum, Jeff (American)

Goodman, John (American)

Granger, Stewart (English)

Grant, Cary (American, b. in Britain)

Grant, Hugh (English)

Grenfell, Joyce (English)

Griffith, Melanie (American)

Grimaldi, Joseph (English)

Guinness, Alec (English)

Guitry, Sacha (French)

Hackman, Gene (American)

Hanks, Tom (American)

Hardy, Oliver (American)

Harlow, Jean (American)

Hauer, Rutger (Dutch)

Hawn, Goldie (American)

Hawthorne, Nigel (English)

Hayes, Helen (American)

Hayete, Salma (Mexican)

Hayworth, Rita (American)

Hepburn, Audrey (British, b. in Belgium)

Hepburn, Katharine (American)

Heston, Charlton (American)

Hoffman, Dustin (American)

Holm, Ian (English)

Hope, Bob (American)

Hopkins, Anthony (Welsh)

Hopper, Dennis (American)

Hordern, Michael (English)

Hoskins, Bob (English)

Howard, Alan (English)

Howard, Leslie (English)

Howard, Trevor (English)

Hudson, Rock (American)

Hurt, John (English)

Hurt, William (American)

Huston, Angelica (American)

Irons, Jeremy (English)

Irving, Henry (English)

Jackson, Glenda (English)

Jacobi, Derek (English)

Johnson, Celia (English)

Jordan, Dorothea (Irish)

Jouvet, Louis (French)

Kapoor, Raj (Indian)

Karloff, Boris (English)

Kaye, Danny (American)

Kean, Edmund (English)

Keaton, Buster (American)

Keaton, Diane (American)

Keaton, Michael (American)

Keitel, Harvey (American)

Kelly, Gene (American)

Kelly, Grace (American)

Kemble, Fanny (English)

Kemble, Peter (English)

Kerr, Deborah (Scottish)

Kidman, Nicole (Australian, b. in Hawaii)

Kingsley, Ben (English)

Kinski, Klaus (Polish)

Kinski, Nastassja (Polish, b. in Germany)

Kline, Kevin (American)

Lamarr, Hedy (American, b. in Austria)

Lancaster, Burt (American)

Lange, Jessica (American)

Langtry, Lillie (English)

Lapotaire, Jane (English)

Laughton, Charles (American, b. in Britain)

Laurel, Stan (English)

Lawrence, Gertrude (English)

Lee, Bruce (American)

Lee, Christopher (English)

Lehman, Beatrix (English)

Leigh, Vivien (British, b. in India)

Lemmon, Jack (American)

Lillie, Beatrice (English)

Lloyd, Marie (English)

Lopez. Jennifer (American)

Loren, Sophia (Italian)

Lorre, Peter (American, b. in Hungary)

Lugosi, Bela (American, b. in Hungary)

Lunt, Alfred (American)

Mac Liammóir, Micheál (Irish)

MacDowell, Andie (American)

MacGregor, Ewan (Scottish)

Maclaine, Shirley (American)

Mansfield, Jayne (American)

Marceau, Sophie (French)

Martin, Steve (American)

Mason, James (English)

Massey, Raymond (Canadian)

Mastroianni, Marcello (Italian)

Matthau, Walter (American)

Maura, Carmen (Spanish)

McCowan, Alec, (English)

McEwan, Geraldine (English)

McKellen, Ian (English)

McKenna, Siobhán (Irish)

McKern, Leo (Australian)

McQueen, Steve (American)

Mercouri, Melina (Greek)

Midler, Bette (American)

Mifune, Toshiro (Japanese)

Mills, John (English)

Minnelli, Liza (American)

Mirren, Helen (English)

Mitchum, Robert (American)

Monroe, Marilyn (American)

Montand, Yves (Italian)

Moore, Demi (American)

Moore, Dudley (English)

Moore, Roger (English)

Moreau, Jeanne (French)

Murphy, Eddie (American)

Murray, Bill (American)

Neeson, Liam (Irish)

Neill, Sam (New Zealand)

Newman, Paul (American)

Nicholson, Jack (American)

Nielsen, Leslie (Canadian)

Niven, David (English)

Noiret, Philippe (French)

O'Neal, Ryan (American)

O'Toole, Peter (British, b. in Ireland)

Oldman, Gary (English)

Olivier, Laurence (English)

Pacino, Al (American)

Paltrow, Gwyneth (American)

Peck, Gregory (American)

Pfeiffer, Michelle (American)

Pickford, Mary (American, b. in Canada)

Pitt, Brad (American)

Plowright, Joan (English)

Poitier, Sidney (American)

Porter, Eric (English)

Price, Vincent (American)

Quaid, Dennis (American)

Quinn, Anthony (American, b. in Mexico)

Rachel (Élisa Félix; French)

Rampling, Charlotte (English)

Redford, Robert (American)

Redgrave, Michael (English)

Redgrave, Vanessa (English)

Reed, Oliver (English)

Reeve, Christopher (American)

Reeves, Keanu (American, b. in Lebanon)

Richardson, Ralph (English)

Robards, Jason (American)

Robbins, Tim (American)

Roberts, Julia (American)

Robeson, Paul (American)

Robinson, Edward G. (American, b. in Romania)

Rogers, Ginger (American)

Rooney, Mickey (American)

Roscius, Quintus (Roman)

Roth, Tim, (American)

Rourke, Mickey (American)

Russell, Jane (American)

Rutherford, Margaret (English)

Ryan, Meg (American)

Ryder, Winona (American)

Sarandon, Susan (American)

Schwarzenegger, Arnold (American, b. in Austria)

Schygulla, Hanna (Polish)

Scofield, Paul (English)

Scott, George C. (American)

Sellers, Peter (English)

Sheen, Martin (American)

Siddons, Mrs Sarah (English)

Sim, Alistair (Scottish)

Sinden, Donald (English)

Slater, Christian (American)

Smith, Maggie (English)

Smith, Will (American)

Spall, Timothy (English)

Stallone, Sylvester (American)

Stamp, Terence (English)

Stanislavsky, Konstantin (Russian)

Stanwyck, Barbara (American)

Steadman, Alison (English)

Steiger, Rod (American)

Stewart, James (American)

Stone, Sharon (American)

Streep, Meryl (American)

Streisand, Barbra (American)

Sutherland, Donald (American)

Suzman, Janet (South African)

Swanson, Gloria (American)

Tati, Jacques (French)

Taylor, Elizabeth (American, b. in Britain)

Temple, Shirley (American)

Terry, Ellen (English)

Thompson, Emma (English)

Thorndike, Sybil (English)

Tracy, Spencer (American)

Travolta, John (American)

Turner, Kathleen (American)

Turturro, John (American)

Tutin, Dorothy (English)

Ustinov, Peter (British, of Russian descent)

Valentino, Rudolf (American, b. in Italy)

Von Sydow, Max (Swedish)

Walken, Christopher (American)

Washington, Denzel (American)

Wayne, John (American)

Weaver, Sigourney (American)

Weigel, Helene (Austrian)

Weissmuller, Johnny (American)

Welles, Orson (American)

West, Mae (American)

Williams, Robin (American)

Willis, Bruce (American, b. in Germany)

Winslet, Kate (English)

Woffington, Peg (Irish)

Wolfit, Donald (English)

Wood, Natalie (American)