: a woman or girl who is an actor
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Portraying Tubman was Annette Hubbell, an author and actress who depicts historical figures in a unique way — alone on stage through first-person accounts of their lives.
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Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
The next installment introduced Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep as Perry’s mother, Mary Louise Wright, and because the show was originally billed as a miniseries, Kelley based the script off a novella that Moriarty wrote.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 May 2024
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Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
The next installment introduced Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep as Perry’s mother, Mary Louise Wright, and because the show was originally billed as a miniseries, Kelley based the script off a novella that Moriarty wrote.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 May 2024
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“Actress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/actress. Accessed 20 May. 2024.
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actress
noun
ac·tress
ˈak-trəs 
: a woman or girl who acts especially in a play or movie or on television
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