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lead role

noun as in leading lady

noun as in leading man

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Three years after his first stint on the WB, he landed the lead role of Lucas Scott in the soapy teen drama “One Tree Hill.”

Erivo does, after all, have the lead role in the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical “Wicked,” playing Elphaba, later known as the Wicked Witch of the West.

The Secret Service, which will take a lead role, called it “a huge undertaking” and costs are expected to be $1 billion to $2 billion.

Holland, also 28, played the lead role in Billy Elliot the Musical in the West End as a child, and has since appeared in Uncharted, Cherry and The Devil All The Time.

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He earned praise for his lead role in the 1998 drama “Driven,”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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