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- noun Someone who is not an
actor
Etymologies
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Examples
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"I see successful performances as exotic and mysterious in the same way a nonactor would," he said.
Words and the Performers Who Love Them Lizzie Simon 2011
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We were scheduled to shoot a small film in one very long day, with a nonactor in the lead.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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We were scheduled to shoot a small film in one very long day, with a nonactor in the lead.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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We were scheduled to shoot a small film in one very long day, with a nonactor in the lead.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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I know we are probably all having a very busy week, but I wanted to take a moment to offer a few remarks in eulogy of actor-nonactor/funnyman-straightman
Tom Gliatto: May the Angels Welcome You, Larry "Bud" Melman 2008
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I might have appreciated it more if I loved all these veteran western actors (plus a gravelly singing nonactor) and if I was in my twilight years as well.
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Like Misael in La Libertad, Vargas is a nonactor whose character carries his real-life name, but whose being is subsumed more intensely and intensively into Alonso's fiction.
artforum.com 2009
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Karim also happens to be the son of the family’s Algerian housekeeper, Mimouna, played by a nonactor with a similar background.
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These “nonactor” people are so busy playing to the cameras that they don’t have time to be real.
The God of Yes David Edwards 2003
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