Bit player and Lead

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Lead is an antonym for bit player in supporting actor or actress topic.

Lead noun - The person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show.

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Bit player is an antonym for lead.

Nearby Words: leading, leader, leaden, leadership, leaded

Before she played the lead in the 1957 TV series The Adventures of Tugboat Annie, Minerva Urecal was a bit player in the movies.

Source: Bit Character
Jamie Madrox, for instance, started off as a background character with little personality, became an Ascended Extra in Peter David's first X-Factor run, then spent a couple years Not Quite Dead and about a decade as a bit player until David got the opportunity to have him lead the new X-Factor.

Source: Demoted To Extra / Comic Books

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