Actor (disambiguation)
# Actor (disambiguation)

An actor is a person who plays a role in theater, cinema or television.

## Films and entertainment

* Actor (album), a 2009 album by St. Vincent
* Actor (1978 film), a 1978 TV movie by American director Norman Lloyd
* Actor (1993 film), a 1993 film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
* Actor (2016 film), an Indian Kannada psychological thriller
* A Screen Actors Guild Award, also known as the Actor

## Science and computing

* Actants, also called "actors", in actor-network theory (a general theory of sociological behaviour), the one who performs the act
* In Interactions of Actors Theory, excitations in any medium able to produce action, a theory of cybernetics
* Actor (UML), in requirements analysis and UML
* Actor model, in concurrency, refers to a model of concurrent computation
* Actor (programming language), an early object-oriented programming integrated development environment (IDE) for the Windows operating system
* Actor, one of the two semantic macroroles in Role and reference grammar

## Other uses

* 12238 Actor, Jovian asteroid
* Actor, a person who performs an action in a 'real-world', non-theatrical situation
* Actor (law)
* Actor (mythology), in Greek mythology, refers to a number of characters, including the father of Menoetius and Astyoche
* Actor (policy debate), the entity that enacts a certain policy action
* ACTOR (A Commitment to Our Roots), former name of The Hero Initiative
* "Actor", a 2015 song by Joker Xue
* Backhoe, part of a digging machine, sometimes called "back actor"
