Actor

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An actor is a person who plays a role in theater, cinema or television.

Actor can also mean:

• Actants, also called actors, is, in actor-network theory (a general theory of sociological behaviour), the one who performs the act.
• In Interactions of Actors Theory excitations in any medium able to produce action- a theory of Cybernetics.
• In computing:
  • Actor (UML), in requirements analysis and UML
  • Actor model, in concurrency, refers to a model of concurrent computation
  • Actor (programming language) (software), an early (circa 1990) object-oriented programming (OOP) integrated development environment (IDE) for the Windows operating system.
• Actor (mythology), in Greek mythology, refers to a number of characters, including the father of Menoetius and Astyoche
• Actor (policy debate), the entity that enacts a certain policy action
• Actor (album), a 2009 album by St. Vincent
• Backhoe, part of a digging machine, sometimes called "Back actor"
• Actor (film), a 1993 film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• A Screen Actors Guild Award, also known as the Actor.

Actress is the feminine form of "actor"; it can refer to:

• a woman who plays a role in theater, cinema or television
• the Catalan-language film Actrius (Actresses)
• the Korean-language film Actresses (film)
• Actress (musician) - a British electronic musician

See also

• The Actor (disambiguation)
• Dramatis personæ

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