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

Contents

• Films and entertainment
• Science and computing
• Other uses
• See also

Films and entertainment

• Actor (album), a 2009 album by St. Vincent
• Actor (TV series), a 2023 Iranian television series
• Actor (1978 film), a 1978 TV movie by American director Norman Lloyd
• Actor (1993 film), a 1993 film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Actor (2016 film), an Indian Kannada psychological thriller
• A Screen Actors Guild Award, also known as the Actor

Science and computing

• Actants, also called "actors", 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
• Actor (UML), in requirements analysis and UML
• Actor model, in concurrency, refers to a model of concurrent computation
• Actor (programming language), an early object-oriented programming integrated development environment (IDE) for the Windows operating system
• Actor, one of the two semantic macroroles in Role and reference grammar

Other uses

• 12238 Actor, Jovian asteroid
• Actor (law)
• 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 (A Commitment to Our Roots), former name of The Hero Initiative
• "Actor", a 2015 song by Joker Xue
• Backhoe, part of a digging machine, sometimes called "back actor"

See also

• State actor
• Non-state actor
• The Actor (disambiguation)
• Actress (disambiguation)
• Dramatis personæ

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