Actor (disambiguation)
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An actor is a person who plays a role in theater, cinema or television.
Actor can also mean:
- Actants, also called actors, is, in actor-network theory (a general theory of sociological behaviour), the one who performs the act.
- In Interactions of Actors Theory excitations in any medium able to produce action- a theory of Cybernetics.
- In computing:
- Actor (UML), in requirements analysis and UML
- Actor model, in concurrency, refers to a model of concurrent computation
- Actor (programming language) (software), an early (circa 1990) object-oriented programming (OOP) integrated development environment (IDE) for the Windows operating system.
- Actor (mythology), in Greek mythology, refers to a number of characters, including the father of Menoetius and Astyoche
- Actor (policy debate), the entity that enacts a certain policy action
- Actor (album), a 2009 album by St. Vincent
- Backhoe, part of a digging machine, sometimes called "Back actor"
- Actor (film), a 1993 film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- A Screen Actors Guild Award, also known as the Actor.
Actress is the feminine form of "actor"; it can refer to:
- a woman who plays a role in theater, cinema or television
- the Catalan-language film Actrius (Actresses)
- the Korean-language film Actresses (film)
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