What's the difference between actress and buffa?

Actress


Definition:

  • (n.) A female actor or doer.
  • (n.) A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
  • (2) Baker was proud of having fired her dramatic coach from the set and needing a maximum of only five takes for the difficult actress.
  • (3) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (4) Might she crown them all with a best actress Oscar?
  • (5) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
  • (6) Hotel Rwanda actress Sophie Okonedo, Jonathan La Paglia (Cold Case), Melissa George (Grey's Anatomy) and Neighbours actor Alex Dimitriades feature in the TV adaptation of Tsiolkas's book.
  • (7) I know a lot of actresses, but I don't have that kind of relationship with them."
  • (8) Each actress was programed to act the part of a difficult-to-interview patient and an easy-to-interview patient.
  • (9) Earlier this month it emerged that the paper's news editor, Ian Edmondson, had been suspended amid allegations relating to the hacking of actress Sienna Miller's phone.
  • (10) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
  • (11) He said that it is often a lack of scripts that holds actresses back, before adding: "Hopefully the studios will develop more movies for them.
  • (12) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
  • (13) Shonda auditioned everyone and their mother, because for African American actresses this was the glass slipper – so she let everyone try it on."
  • (14) As well as being an actress, you're also a published journalist, have edited a book on film and are currently producing and writing a series on Dickens for the BBC.
  • (15) There may be lingering doubts over whether Meryl Streep , Viola Davis or outside bet Rooney Mara will claim the Academy Award for best actress later this month, and no-one is absolutely certain if Jean Dujardin , George Clooney or Gary Oldman will be picking up the equivalent male gong at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
  • (16) People want us to cheer that black actors from The Butler and 12 Years a Slave are likely to be up for best actor and actress awards, yet it feels like a throwback, almost to the Gone with the Wind era.
  • (17) Riva, the oldest nominee ever for best actress category, has a very Gallic disdain for such public adulation.
  • (18) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
  • (19) Zoe's client Anne Hathaway is nominated in the supporting actress category for Les Misérables.
  • (20) That same year, he married his partner, the French actress Sunrise Coigney, reportedly after she turned down his proposal once before.

Buffa


Definition:

  • (n. fem.) The comic actress in an opera.
  • (a.) Comic, farcical.

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