an actor who typically plays unusualcharacters, rather than the most important characters 性格演员〔通常饰演性格怪异的配角〕
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character actor• In other words, he was still developing the characteristics that would eventually make him a character actor.• I never expected to be much more than a character actor.• The character actor has appeared in at least 50 motionpictures in a filmcareer that dates to the 1950s.