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Answer for the clue "Chief actor ", 11 letters:
leading man

Word definitions for leading man in dictionaries

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Leading man or leading gentleman is an informal term for the actor who is the protagonist or plays a love interest to the leading actress in a film or play. A leading man is sometimes an all-rounder; capable of singing, dancing, and acting at a professional ...

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n. actor who plays the leading male role

Usage examples of leading man.

She didn't have to play opposite a gorgeous leading man, but a leading man in her life wouldn't be so bad.

While he talked about motors, while he listened with a fixed smile to her account of the film she had seen last Wednesday, while he hoped that she would hurry up and finish her description of the plot, the beauty of the leading man, and the luxury of the setting, he studied her.

Leverett Bellamy was her favorite leading man, who'd made his reputation and fortune portraying tough urban war heroes, fighting the Deng street to street in Madison, in films that bore no resemblance to the actual war or the people who'd fought it.

Rumors vary, but insiders say leading man Depp and Cox butted heads over the director's script and his take on Raoul Duke.