portrayer
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His Creature required a creative leap, one its portrayer wanted as well.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
“There wasn't this common vocabulary about color until Ridgway created it,” says Brian Ellis, president of the Illinois Audubon Society and portrayer of Ridgway in living history skits.
From National Geographic • Dec. 7, 2023
The character was probably based on acting colleague - and fellow portrayer of cads - Terry-Thomas.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2022
But this island’s overseer, called Mr. Roarke as he was on television, is played by Michael Peña in a mild misterioso vibe, in contrast with the kitsch suavity of his original portrayer, Ricardo Montalbán.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2020
I cannot but feel that as a portrayer of such a "will to power" among the obstinate, narrow, savage personages of small provincial towns, no one has approached Balzac.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
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