Actor Or Actress

Caribeing | 17:41 Sun 22nd Jul 2018 | Film, Media & TV

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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

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jno

let's have more poetesses and editresses, I say.

douglas9401

Editrix?

jno

no, they were always editresses in the good old days. There was the occasional aviatrix, though - probably so few they didn't have to worry about what the plural might be.