character actor
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actor who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- profession
- Subclass of
- actor
- Image
- Character actors.jpg
- Field of occupation
- performing arts
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- female form of label
- karakter oyuncusu
- male form of label
- acteur de genre
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Encyclopedic overview
Actor Claude Rains (right) was sometimes a leading actor, sometimes a character actor, often cast as a sophisticated, sometimes "morally ambiguous" man.
A character actor is an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric, or interesting characters in supporting roles, rather than leading ones. The term is somewhat abstract and open to interpretation. While all actors play "characters", the term character actor is often applied to an actor who frequently plays a distinctive and important supporting role.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “character actor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.