screen actor

1. 1.

   an actor who plays a role in a film

   Synonymsmovie actor

   Broaderactor

   Narrowerfilm star

Questions about screen actor

What does screen actor mean?

screen actor means "an actor who plays a role in a film".

What is another word for screen actor?

Close synonyms include movie actor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is screen actor a common word?

screen 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.