screen actor
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- noun
- /skriːn ˈæktər/
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actor de cine
- Screen actors guild is gonna hear about this, and I mean it.
- a big-screen actor
- stage and screen actor
Examples
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The screen actor whom Benjamin extols as a preeminent performer of self-alienation is, not surprisingly, Charlie Chaplin.
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Veteran stage and screen actor Russ Widdall, whose credits include HBO's The Wire, explores Kennedy's career behind the scenes in Washington, his critical role in the fight for civil rights, and more.
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He was also a prominent stage and screen actor.
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Benjamin's conception of the screen actor is not as heroic as it may seem.
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I know this to be true, not only from the models, dancers, and screen actors that I work with in psychotherapy, but from the women I interviewed for my book, "Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change" (Hay House, 2011).
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For the screen actor, it faces a unique kind of mechanized test, similar to the aptitude tests to which the capitalist labor process subjects individuals daily and without public accountability.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a well-known screen actor famous for his roles in blockbuster films.
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The director held auditions to find the best screen actor for the upcoming movie.
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As a talented screen actor, she has appeared in both popular films and acclaimed television series.
How Prominent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an actor who appears in films or on television' is directly derivable from combining 'screen' (referring to the film/TV screen or screen medium) with 'actor' (a person who performs). This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows normal noun–noun modification, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.
Etymology
The compound noun screen actor comes from the word screen, the flat surface where films and television are shown, and actor, a person who performs. So a screen actor is someone who performs on the 'screen' in films or on television rather than 'on stage'.