portrayer

American  

[pawr-tray-er] / pɔrˈtreɪ ər /

noun

• portrayers
  plural

1. a person or thing that portrays someone or something else in literature, visual art, a dramatic performance, or other media.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• portrayers
  plural

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portrayer portrayers

Kerry Washington discusses her memoir, ‘Thicker Than Water,’ and the family secret revelation that taught Olivia Pope’s portrayer to be her own protagonist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

“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

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

Fortunately, the American aboriginal had already found a true portrayer and historian.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker

But the movie’s two hours offer plenty of room for their portrayers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2025

Or maybe we, too, should forget the characters and think about their flesh-and-blood portrayers.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022

In a story perhaps all too familiar, Anderson sports some major dental prosthetics, as all Eleanor Roosevelt portrayers seemingly must, but brings heart to the part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

This third time’s the charm in Marvel’s pantheon of Spider-Man portrayers.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2017

Dante, if his poetic nature had taken a different bent, and Shakespeare, if he had only chosen, could have been her portrayers singly; no others that I can think of, and certainly no Frenchman.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury