(n.) One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.
(n.) A theatrical performer; a stageplayer.
(n.) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
(n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(2) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
(3) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(4) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(5) Notably, while the lead actors were all professionals, most of the cast members and musicians came from Providência itself.
(6) She says he wants his actors to be in a "second state", instinctive, holding nothing back.
(7) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(8) Like Morton, Sevigny is an actor who holds nothing back from the camera.
(9) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(10) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(11) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(12) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(13) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(14) Ridley and Boyega are part of a swathe of actors – also including Girls' Adam Driver and Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow – who were confirmed by studio Disney in May.
(15) Braff will direct and play the lead role of a father, actor and husband struggling to find his identity.
(16) The actor and his fee have become the news story, and there's no credible reason to believe that Downey is a HTC fan.
(17) Three female actors, including former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko , are rumoured to be in the running for the lead female role in the upcoming sequel to superhero reboot Man of Steel, reports Variety .
(18) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
(19) It appeared Dunaway and Warren Beatty had an envelope containing a card naming a previous award won by La La Land, prompting visible hesitation between the two veteran actors before Dunaway went ahead and named La La Land.
(20) According to this explanation, aspects of the situation are phenomenologically more salient for actors, whereas characteristics of the actor and his behavior are more salient for observers.
Mime
Definition:
(n.) A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
(n.) An actor in such representations.
(v. i.) To mimic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(2) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
(3) He taught us how to mime at home with games.” When he set up his own theatre company, the family moved to La Beauce, near Orléans.
(4) These results with this novel chemotherapy program in heavily pretreated patients suggest that MIME should be studied in less extensively treated patients and considered as a part of treatment programs for patients with Hodgkin's disease in first relapse.
(5) From 1981 to 1983, 208 patients with recurrent or refractory lymphoma were treated with methylglyoxal-bis-guanylhydrazone (methyl-GAG), ifosfamide, methotrexate, etoposide (MIME).
(6) Trump, signing an act to protect VA whistleblowers, revelled in the moment, using his fingers to mime a gun and mouthing his catchphrase “You’re fired!” at Shulkin.
(7) She has said all along she won't talk about him, and when I mention his name she mimes zipping her lips.
(8) He presented cabaret in working men's clubs ("I adored those audiences, they'd always want to dance with me afterwards") and toured Europe, developing a strange hybrid of drag, mime and conventional song-and-dance.
(9) Shoot!” He cocks his thumb to his index finger and mimes a pistol firing, though it’s not impossible I imagined that.
(10) Apart from spastic, extrapyramidal and cerebellar disturbances resulting from various types of diseases of middle and old age, the individual associated movements in miming and gesture become unharmonious and stiffer with increasing age and the hyperkinesia which was hidden by combined motoricity becomes more marked.
(11) He worked in mime, and he had a real theatrical background.
(12) However, MIME is well suited for remission induction in patients intended for subsequent autologous bone-marrow transplantation.
(13) She accused the singer on Twitter of miming on stage, adding "how disappointing": Kay Burley (@KayBurley) Oh, Dolly is miming.
(14) So every once in a while it would be, 'Yeah I read that book', and Alex would do like [James mimes a victory dance]."
(15) There are few feats of virtuosity better than his miming as he rehearses the song and as he performs a short introductory dance.
(16) But of all that what I found strangest was mime," Prada says.
(17) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
(18) I have to mime the lost purse, show the panic, pull out the drama, and then the relief.
(19) Without working too hard she studied for a PhD in political science, then devoted rather more effort to learning mime at the Piccolo Teatro.
(20) "If I'm miming something, be it a knife, a gun or a glass, I can't just let it disappear.