Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who acts jointly with another or others.

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Examples

  • Orson Welles once said that when you shoot a scene with Gary Cooper, either as his co-actor or director, you're never impressed with him much because he was quiet and ordinary, until you see the rushes, and then he dominates the screen.

    My Moment of Glory 2006

  • That last scene which is so shocking actually had Price in hysterics because he and his co-actor had to ham it up while looking at an empty spot on the floor or something.

    "Like Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' in reverse, the giant, hideous beetle that was the GOP has suddenly been reborn as a vigorous youth...." Ann Althouse 2008

  • It was in New York that my friend and co-actor Ron Rifkin got such a bad case of the giggles that he walked off stage during a scene between the two of us and I suddenly found myself all alone on stage.

    In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

  • It was in New York that my friend and co-actor Ron Rifkin got such a bad case of the giggles that he walked off stage during a scene between the two of us and I suddenly found myself all alone on stage.

    In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

  • The distinction b/w teacher as didactic figure and teacher as co-actor is interesting 63

    Archive 2006-07-01 Bill Kerr 2006

  • The distinction b/w teacher as didactic figure and teacher as co-actor is interesting 63

    design patterns Bill Kerr 2006

  • He told his co-actor and friend Karl Malden that checking in every night and pretending to be someone you weren't really wasn't respectable work for a grown man.

    Marlon Brando: The King Who Would Be Man Schulberg, Budd 2005

  • Rapper Big Daddy Kane, a co-actor in "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," warned him about it back then.

    Dig It: 'The Ultimate Isaac Hayes' 2005

  • The proprietor expostulated with his lady co-actor, whom he threatened and coaxed in turn, but who evidently had a strong desire to discontinue the act; and it was amusing to watch the varying expression of his countenance, as, with frowning brow, and clenched hands, and such

    Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay

  • She was later given her co-actor as a birthday present.

    BBC News - Home 2012

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