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plural actresses, masculine actor
A female who performs on the stage or in films. quotations examples
A while ago somewhere I don't know when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand
1972, Neil Young (lyrics and music), “A Man Needs a Maid”, in Harvest
"I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days."
2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 88
Court documents appear to show that Ian Edmondson, a senior News of the World journalist, had authorised Mr Mulcaire to hack phones belonging to Sienna Miller, an actress.
2011 January 27, “Not going quietly”, in The Economist
(now rare) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense). quotations
My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.
1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 290