portrayer
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“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
Bier describes the intensity of focusing on each figure at a time, and her portrayer, as a gathering emotional force.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2022
The thing is that Tucker is one of those invented personages who partakes of the cultural mojo of his portrayer.
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2018
But here we touch upon Bret Harte’s weakness as a portrayer of human nature.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
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