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actor

[ak-ter] / ˈæk tər /


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Jones is the best dog actor I’ve ever worked with.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

The Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones and actor Marj Hogarth are on a quest to transform a 163-year-old chapel in north Wales.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Back in the depths of the pandemic, what was an actor to do?

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

This background actor, portraying someone held involuntarily on “a 302” as a threat to himself or others, has to play the situation low-key.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

An actor noticed that Koch had used a British line from Wells’s story about hiding in the drains.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow




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