leading character
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“When the transition is made from side character to leading character, we think a lot about what story it is we’re trying to tell,” the showrunner and executive producer Jess Brownell explained.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2024
“It’s really cool to be able to play a leading character like that,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
But the Jackson hearings feature a new leading character: Janice Rogers Brown, a former judge on the federal appeals court in Washington where Jackson now sits.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
Sparks fly during Christmastime when a romance novelist meets a handsome man who looks like the leading character in her books.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
Protagonist, prō-tag′on-ist, n. a leading character, esp. in a play.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
