Actor and Character

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Actor noun - One who acts professionally (as in a play, movie, or television show).

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Character and actor are semantically related. in person who performs topic. In some cases you can use "Character" instead a noun "Actor".

Nearby Words: acting, actress

Character noun - A written or printed mark that is meant to convey information to the reader.

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Actor and character are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Actor" instead a noun "Character".

human	human actor	human character
good	good actor	good character
female	female actor	female character
nice	nice actor	nice character
Other adjectives: best, regular, certain, lead, single, popular, actual, real, male, black, main, famous, new, major, supporting, different, comic, favorite.

Almost every character in the series was The Danza, playing a character of the same name as the actor, so one might suppose that the character and the actor were meant to be the same person.

Source: Celebrity Paradox / Live-Action TV
Somebody will tell you that there's some sort of metaphor in there for the duality of the actor and the character, or something.

Source: Real Person Fic
Ocean's Twelve also switches the names of the character and actor (due to a scene where her character impersonates Julia Roberts): "Introducing Tess Ocean as Julia Roberts."

Source: And Starring

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