on-screen

[ on-skreen, awn- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life:
a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.
displayed on a television screen; supplied by means of television:
an on-screen course in economics.

in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life:
On-screen he's a villain.

First recorded in 1950–55

Or you are Elizabeth Taylor: an on-screen vamp with the most tempestuously public love-life dramas (with Richard Burton).

Tambor began his on-screen career with a bit part as a medical examiner in an episode of Kojak in 1977.

Or more accurately, her animated alter ego tells my on-screen avatar.

But, as it turns out, she and her on-screen alter ego do have something in common: an activist streak.

Sadly for gossip-hounds, there was no way Farrow was airing any family scandal on-screen, in this first show at least.

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