Character actor

A character actor is an actor who plays a particular kind of character in a play, movie, television program, opera, or ballet. The character actor is not the main part and is not the lover or hero. The character actor has a character that helps support the main characters and with it the story.

Character roles may be roles such as the faithful servant, the maid, the villain, the mother-in-law, or the priest. They may or may not be comic characters.

For example, in The Wizard of Oz, the main character is Dorothy. The Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man are character roles.

Some actors or singers prefer character roles to main roles. That may be because the role suits their personality or their singing voice. Some people nearly always play the same kind of character role and are then called are "typecast." Some actors are happy to remain typecast, but others wish to broaden their repertoire and take on different roles.


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