character actor

1. 1.

   an actor who specializes in playing supporting roles

   Broaderactor

Questions about character actor

What does character actor mean?

character actor means "an actor who specializes in playing supporting roles".

Is character actor a common word?

character actor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.