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actress
[ ak-tris ]
noun
- a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc., especially professionally.
actress
/ ˈæٰɪ /
noun
- a woman who acts in a play, film, broadcast, etc
- informal.a woman who puts on a false manner in order to deceive others
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Usage
Use of the word actress to refer to a female who acts is old-fashioned. The modern gender-neutral form is actor
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Gender Note
What's the difference between actress and actor? See -ess.
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The actress says she found out she had been nominated for the prestigious acting prize after leaving a Zumba class.
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The Years, which also won best director for Eline Arbo, sees five actresses play a woman at different stages of her life.
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Varada, who's 32, told my colleagues in Asian Network that when she first told her family she wanted to be an actress, there wasn't immediate support.
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Game operators can find a steady supply of labor in a city famously thick with struggling actresses and models.
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She was not an actress, but she held her own in that film.
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