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actor

person who acts in a dramatic or comic production and works in film, television, theatre, or radio
Intangible profession Q33999
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Summary

actor is a profession[1]. actor ranks in the top 1% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43,280 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: occupation[3], occupation group according to ISCO-08[4], theatrical occupation[5], filmmaking occupation[6]
  • Subclass of: performing artist[7], creative and performing artist[8]
  • Commons category: Actors[9]
  • Patron saint: Genesius of Rome[10]
  • Field of this occupation: acting[11]
  • Said to be the same as: actress[12], male actor[13], performing artist[14]
  • Has part(s): stage actor[15], television actor[16], film actor[17], voice actor[18], amateur actor[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Actors[20]
  • ISCO-88 occupation class: 2455[21]
  • Described by source: Pauly–Wissowa[22], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[24], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[26], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[27]
  • Partially coincident with: impressionist[28]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox actor[29]
  • Main Wikidata property: P161[30], P175[31], P14943[32]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Actor[33], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Actor[34]
  • Properties for this type: P1283[35], P569[36], P4666[37], P106[38], P345[39], P2604[40]
  • Female form of label: ممثلة[41], مومتيلة[42], ممثله[43], actriz[44], aktrisa[45], актрыса[46], акторка[47], Schauspuiarin[48], актриса[49], অভিনেত্রী[50], aktourez[51], glumica[52], actriu[53]

Why It Matters

actor has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] actor is known by 124 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . International Standard Classification of Occupations. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Q139921796. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Q138362428. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  49. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  50. [52] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  51. [53] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [54] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16d ago · ZI Jony · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main wikidata property → P161, P175, P14943
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Main wikidata property: P14943"
  2. 19d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ban', '
    Exact match → —
    Sitelink count → 188
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||nap, fur */ import labels from sitelinks"
  3. 26d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Actor, https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Theatre, WikiProject Film, Filmmaking task force +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Actor"
  4. 5w ago · Treisijs · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Theatre, WikiProject Film, Filmmaking task force +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Theatre"
  5. 13w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female form of label → {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'ممثلة'}, {'lang': 'ary', 'text': 'مومتيلة'}, {'lang': 'arz', 'text': 'ممثله'} +79
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||no, bjn, bo */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  6. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → actors, actresses
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: actors, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289915437|actors (#289915437)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  7. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → yEElt
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  8. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001403-herci, h0001725-herecky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001725-herecky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  9. 21w ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isco-88 occupation class → 2455
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33414|batch #33414]]: fix ISCO-88 statements (1), redo"
  10. 22w ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Library of congress authority id: sh85000744"
  11. 24w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Has parts → —
    Field of this occupation → acting
    Described by source → Pauly–Wissowa, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary +3
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Isco-08 occupation class: 2655, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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