leading character
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Tina Huang, who plays the leading character Kat Chan, pointed out how a majority of the people on and off stage for the production identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2022
“Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government,” Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022
“It’s really cool to be able to play a leading character like that,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2022
Its leading character is a certain genial and eccentric Lord Peter Wimsey, younger brother of the Duke of Denver, who has taken up amateur detecting as a pastime.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
The play was in five acts, and the leading character was sustained by Lemaître.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett
