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A female who performs on the stage or in films.
- A while ago somewhere I don't know when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand
- "I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days."
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A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).archaic
- My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.
syn. actorine · actrice