Synonym: entertainer, performer, trouper. Antonym: actress. Similar words: factor, factory, contractor, act on, act out, facto, doctor, sector. Meaning: ['æktə] 
n. 1. a theatrical performer 2. a person who acts and gets things done.
n. 1. a theatrical performer 2. a person who acts and gets things done. 241. In 1940 he fell for an actor who was his lover for two years before joining the navy in 1942.
242. In other words, he was still developing the characteristics that would eventually make him a character actor.
243. I started out in this business not having any concept about what an actor did.