character actor

C2747
concept

A character actor is a performer who specializes in playing distinctive, often supporting roles with strong, memorable personalities rather than conventional leading parts.

All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
character actor canonical 983
character actress 91
Supporting character 7

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: character actor
Generated description
A character actor is a performer who specializes in playing distinctive, often supporting roles with strong, memorable personalities rather than conventional leading parts.

Instances (1,094)

Instance Via concept surface
Donald Moffat
Olin Francis
Kelton Garwood
Dennis Fimple
Richard Brake
Augusto Benedico
Rajesh Vivek
Raza Murad
Dorothy Adams
Maudie Prickett character actress
Parley
surface form: Parley Baer
Burkley
surface form: Dennis Burkley
Anne Ramsey character actress
Wemmick Supporting character
Grady Sutton
Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn
surface form: Keenan Wynn
Wynn family
surface form: Keenan Wynn
Jean Heywood
Achyut Potdar
John Rothman
Megs Jenkins character actress
Irene Tedrow character actress
Tige Andrews
Johnny Depp as Bon Bon supporting film role
Johnny Depp as Lieutenant Victor supporting film role
Holmes Herbert
Olaf Hytten
Aubrey Mather
Jean Cadell
Mamakos
surface form: Peter Mamakos
Paul Hurst
Charles Lane
Chick Chandler
Leyland Hodgson
Elya Baskin
Eily Malyon character actress
Paul L. Smith
Larry Taylor
Wilfrid Lawson
Michael O’Neill
William Finley
Robert Emmett O’Connor
Allan Jeayes
Bernard Kay
Andrew Vabre Devine
Dorothy House
surface form: Andy Devine
Michael Q. Schmidt
Fred Kelsey
John Mitchum
Katherine Haden character actress