portrayer
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“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
Bier describes the intensity of focusing on each figure at a time, and her portrayer, as a gathering emotional force.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2022
There’s a new portrayer of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes — actress Amanda Seyfried, who is starring in Hulu’s “The Dropout.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021
As a register of facts—as a portrayer of men, singly, or assembled—and as a depicter of actual scenery, art is biography, history, and topography taught through the eye.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
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