character actor

British  

noun

1. an actor who specializes in playing odd or eccentric characters

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character actor

Damon’s challenger is 72-year-old character actor John Malkovich, who gives a career-topping performance as a jaded, dying spy in ‘Wild Horse Nine.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The veteran character actor plays a man whose pilfering of a wallet ensnares him in more high-stakes criminality in this elegant autumnal caper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Rob Schneider, who played the bell boy to Curry's uppity hotel clerk in Home Alone 2, also praised Curry as a "sensational character actor".

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Enter veteran character actor Lin Shaye, whose psychic Elise has been a series mainstay and a reliable provider of expository dialogue, despite the fact that her character died at the end of the 2011 original.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

In this onerous undertaking he was favoured by an unexpected improvement in his position, for he obtained a remunerative, respectable, and permanent engagement, as a character actor, at the newly established Court Theatre in Dresden.

From My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

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