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actress
[ ak-tris ]
noun
- a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc., especially professionally.
actress
/ ˈæktrɪs /
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
Usage
Gender Note
Example Sentences
The This Is Us actress knows the value of institutional support.
Something I learned during one of Camille’s photoshoots was that photographers back then would dose actresses in baby oil to make them shine!
She’s an actress, choreographer, dancer, director, producer, singer-songwriter and the proud owner of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The supporting actress trophy went to his co-star Annie Murphy.
The powerful series “Watchmen,” a graphic novel-adaptation steeped in racial pain, was voted best limited series and King won lead actress for her work on the HBO show.
Once upon a time, a girl named Onika Maraj dreamed of being an actress.
We might have thought The Comeback was about a desperate actress's shameless struggle for fame.
In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.
We recently saw that very thing with the new “Annie” movie because a black actress played Annie.
The Oscar-winning actress put nude photo thieves in their place with one perfect statement.
In a very thin house in the country, an actress spoke very low in her communication with her lover.
He was defendant in the breach of promise suit brought by a notorious London actress, then playing in a popular revue.
"She's a moving picture actress or something, I'm sure of it," Grace confided in Betty's unsympathetic ear.
I have seen her twice, and I must own she has made great progress as an actress since I heard her for the first time in Paris.
Cardot was the "protector" of the actress, Florentine, whom he discovered and started.
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