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Actor Or Actress
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Always thought a male was an actor a female an actress now it seems to be all actors, was watching Sunday Brunch today and they said now we have actor Jemma Rooper and she was a female didn’t know her anyway but made me think has all my education etc been useless!
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I'm not sure how the actor/ actress distinction came about. I remember when we had managers and manageresses and waiters and waitresses still exist as separate entities, but we've never had doctors and doctoresses, for example
17:49 Sun 22nd Jul 2018