actor
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Silver Lake has also been home to several celebrities over the years, including actress Olivia Wilde, actor James Franco, and comedian Fred Armisen.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
He said a foreign actor could download the list and send an email to residents posing as the city asking for tax money.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Mr. Statham, a not infrequently delightful actor whose main weakness is an inability to say no to mediocre projects, undertakes the usual heroic killing spree in “Mutiny,” a brief, reasonably compelling but shamelessly workmanlike feature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
This offbeat con-man comedy pairs the director with Nicolas Cage, an actor who turns out to be an unexpectedly good fit for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The way that any actor could, with a look, destroy the artifice, the pretense of reality on film.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Ms. Lichty’s awkward performance leaves a void at the play’s center, true, but even the actors of note, fine as they are, cannot bring unwritten depths to their shallow characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s a very simple trick that most actors overlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
His idea sounds less wild when you recall that we’re really talking about small communities being targeted by hostile foreign actors, leading Braun to reason that the Department of Defense could possibly fund his effort.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
They and other actors and aristocrats were visitors to the Scarborough Tunny Club, founded in the 1930s and which survives today as a fish and chip restaurant.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
"They're not my parents. It's just a picture from an old magazine—two actors from a soap opera," Belet said, her tone cold and flat as she tossed the shreds into the air.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Vocabulary lists containing actor
Academy Awards, List 3
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Literary Terms, Part I
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