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character actor

NOUN
  1. an actor who specializes in playing supporting roles

How To Use character actor In A Sentence

  • A character actor may also be a faithful husband; both are steady, if unspectacular jobs.
  • Mr. Franke was a comprimario - a character actor of the operatic world. NYT > Home Page
  • In other words, he was still developing the characteristics that would eventually make him a character actor.
  • With such a commanding presence, it's unfortunate that the script did not accommodate a few more scenes for this great character actor.
  • Matching Lassick is the title menace, played surprisingly well-considering the make-up job-by character actor Stephen Furst ( DVD Verdict
  • We asked a group of these players about the makings of a good character actor.
  • It remains one of Polanski's best, and a precursor to themes he would continually dabble in: tortured relationships, bizarre blonde behavior, infidelity, cross-dressing, even film noir via the  stalwart Lionel Stander (best known here for his role in Hart to Hart but who should be known as the blacklisted, veteran hard-boiled American character actor). Kim Morgan: Ten of Polanski's Best...Kitty Cat
  • He was the character actor, I was more the vaudevillian, pantomime comedian, and we both learnt a lot from each other.
  • I liked the interview because of exchanges like the one below-but am posting it mostly because I dig it very much when an Indian writer is introduced thusly: "X who has very dark hair and adumbrative eyes yet seems to emit brightness …" (The picture is interesting too, presenting PM as a cross between a character actor in a Hindi film poster and a psychedelic hippie on the Buddha trail.) Amitava Kumar
  • As his big-screen star faded in the 1960s, Curtis remolded himself as a character actor and turned to television with the 1970s action series "The Persuaders," costarring Roger Moore, and a recurring role on the crime drama "Vegas. Tony Curtis Laid To Rest
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