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When did actresses stop being actresses and start being actors?
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November 6th, 2016
I was listening to Fresh Air Weekend on NPR yesterday, and there was an interview with a female who recently appeared in a new movie. (She wasn’t very interesting, and I promptly forgot her name.)
What was striking to me is that both Terry Gross (the interviewer) and the entertainer used the term “actor”, not ‘actress’.
Did this change take place out of feminism or political correctness?
‘Actress’ isn’t demeaning, at least to me – it is helpfully descriptive (female actor).
When did actresses start being referred to as actors?
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