Actor
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An actor (male) or actress (female) is a person assumes a role for the purpose of entertaining others, through a television show, a radio broadcast, a stage play, or a movie, among others.
Actors are highly respected in American popular culture, and the details of their lives closely scrutinized, to the point of absurdity, by the paparazzi. By comparison, actors in Roman society occupied a very low rung on the social ladder.