overact

Still, Freeman is the only performer here who doesn’t overact.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023

“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

While we weren’t making an actual game, and I’m no professional actor, I did have attempt to rein in my desire to overact, thinking I needed big bombastic movements for animators to play with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

She remembers turning up at castings as recently as five years ago, recording self-tapes, running lines with her mother, who could be counted on to overact.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2019

"You overact your part," said young Wharton, in constant apprehension of discovery; "your zeal is too intemperate."

From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper

Soo overacts and injects emotion despite acknowledging, in a more recent video, that “most of the time” the witness did “not convey a lot of emotions.”

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

In support, Toni Collette overacts, deliberately and effectively, while David Thewlis makes each verision of the character he plays interesting.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2020

He is also someone who overthinks, overacts and overshares.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2015

Regarding the cast, Puig says that Ray Liotta "overacts" in his role as Ryan's stern preacher father and Ashley Judd "dully plays" his mother, while the narration is "heavy-handed" and "clunky."

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2014

He overacts his parts, and even Shakespeare will tell you how foolish a proceeding that is.

From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby

He overacted, but these are old songs whose sentiments can use some help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

“Maybe I overacted to dreaming — maybe I was dreaming about something else. She didn’t think it was funny.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2019

Or perhaps you will come to feel that you’ve overacted and yet still want to involve the school to prevent further issues.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2019

But the transformation is so sudden — and, frankly, badly overacted by Guthrie, who seems to have forgotten that he’s playing a single human being, not two — that the tragedy rings hollow.

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2016

He overacted the part, but it was convincing enough for the scriv accompanying me.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The outsize nature of the production invites overacting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Her overacting meets Ms. Gyllenhaal’s over-filmmaking like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

They can reveal if the people caught in action are hiding from the camera or posing for it, and if they are speaking naturally or being loud and overacting.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2023

My sister told me I was overacting and should just move my office into my bedroom or closet.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2023

Even Leeds’ Thespians on Demand, the famed English acting troupe known far and wide for their loud voices and shameless overacting, could not hold a candle to this family.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood