on-screen
[on-skreen, awn-]
- 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.
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- in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life: On-screen he's a villain.
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Origin of on-screen
First recorded in 1950–55
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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.
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Or more accurately, her animated alter ego tells my on-screen avatar.
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But, as it turns out, she and her on-screen alter ego do have something in common: an activist streak.
Dan Harmon The NBC cult-hit Community employs a cast of characters as outlandish as their on-screen personas.