- 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 Termshistrionic.Actors and ActressesAbril, 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)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)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, 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)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)Fonda, Bridget (American)Fonda, Henry (American)Fonda, Jane (American)Ford, Harrison (American)Foster, Jodie (American)Gable, Clark (American)Gambon, Michael (Irish)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, 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, 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)Kline, Kevin (American)Lancaster, Burt (American)Lange, Jessica (American)Langtry, Lillie (English)Lapotaire, Jane (English)Laurel, Stan (English)Lawrence, Gertrude (English)Lee, Bruce (American)Lee, Christopher (English)Lehman, Beatrix (English)Lemmon, Jack (American)Lillie, Beatrice (English)Lloyd, Marie (English)Lopez. Jennifer (American)Loren, Sophia (Italian)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)Oldman, Gary (English)Olivier, Laurence (English)Pacino, Al (American)Paltrow, Gwyneth (American)Peck, Gregory (American)Pfeiffer, Michelle (American)Pitt, Brad (American)Plowright, Joan (English)Poitier, Sidney (American)Porter, Eric (English)Price, Vincent (American)Quaid, Dennis (American)Rachel (Élisa Félix; French)Rampling, Charlotte (English)Redford, Robert (American)Redgrave, Michael (English)Redgrave, Vanessa (English)Reed, Oliver (English)Reeve, Christopher (American)Richardson, Ralph (English)Robards, Jason (American)Robbins, Tim (American)Roberts, Julia (American)Robeson, Paul (American)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)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)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)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)Winslet, Kate (English)Woffington, Peg (Irish)Wolfit, Donald (English)Wood, Natalie (American)
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