ACTRESS Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

actress

noun

as in actor

a woman or girl who acts in a play, movie, etc. The versatile actress can seemingly play any role. The actresses in the musical vastly outperformed their male counterparts.

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Recent Examples of actress The case supervisors and crime bosses are female, too—played by such veteran character actresses as Lancashire, Tracey Ullman, and a gnomic Kathryn Hunter. —

Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024 That mechanism certainly proved fruitful for actress Blake Lively in finding proof of a smear campaign laid out in emails in her dispute with her This Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni. —

Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024 Lively also received online support from her sister, actress Robyn Lively, who shared a collage of screenshots summarizing the conflict between Blake and Baldoni. —

EW.com, 22 Dec. 2024 To prepare for her character’s Geordie accent, the actress watched old clips of English singer Cheryl Cole as a judge on The X Factor. —

Emily Blackwood, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for actress