on-screen

[on-skreen, awn-]

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.

adverb

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

Origin of on-screen

First recorded in 1950–55

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

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Contemporary Examples of on-screen

Or you are Elizabeth Taylor: an on-screen vamp with the most tempestuously public love-life dramas (with Richard Burton).
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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.
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Dan Harmon The NBC cult-hit Community employs a cast of characters as outlandish as their on-screen personas.
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