acting role

collocation in English

meaningsofactingandrole

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acting
adjective
uk
/ˈæk.tɪŋ/us
/ˈæk.tɪŋ/
someone who does a job for a short time while the person who usually does that job is ...
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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofactingandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofacting role

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This was, however, his firstactingrole.
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Her first straight dramaticactingrolehad been in a theatre production the year previous.
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This was his firstactingroleafter his first audition.
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He has appeared in anactingrolein several television programmes and films.
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Haas also had a smallactingrolein the film as one of the scientists.
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In each of these films he also played a minor supportingactingrole.
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This would be his last on-screenactingrolebefore his death.
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It was there that she landed her firstactingrole.
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At age ten, he received his firstactingrolein his school's play.
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Simi played the bank manager in that film: it was his onlyactingrole.
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This firstactingrolespurred him on to other acting roles and eventually on to movie roles.
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This is so far his onlyactingrole.
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In addition to screenwriting, he also took on anactingrolein various feature-length films during the period 19431966.
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Dancers may be expected to be able to take on anactingroleand speak lines (often in a supporting role).
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Treach also got a cameoactingrolein the film, his firstactingrole.
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This would seem to have been his firstactingrole.
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After 2007 however, he is not known to have any credited voiceactingrole.
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His first performance in anactingrolecame at the age of 17, when he appeared in a stage play, he started acting professionally in 1945.
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Blake told interviewers and wrote in his autobiography that he hoped he would be offered one more greatactingrolebefore he died.
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This was her firstactingrole.
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