a person who acts on the stage or TV, or in films
person who performs, entertains by role-playing
Cases of word usage
1) a test given to a musician, singer or actor wishing to take part in a performance (audition)
2) an actor who plays comic parts in plays etc (comedian)
3) the last part of a literary work, especially spoken by an actor at the end of a play (epilogue)
4) the upper part of a pig's leg, salted and dried or smoked as meat; a bad actor or performer; to overact on the stage (ham)
