The phrase "a classically trained actor" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an actor who has received formal training in classical acting techniques, often associated with traditional theater.
Example: "She is a classically trained actor, having studied at one of the most prestigious drama schools in the country."
Alternatives: "a formally trained actor" or "an actor with classical training."
A classically trained actor, he had never even performed outside of Australia until "Priscilla" took him to London.
A classically trained actor, with Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare and pantomime under his belt, Mr. Edden lacks the formal clowning training you might expect in an actor playing Alfie.
"For me, it has always been essential to move with some fluidity between genres," said Mr. Sills, a classically trained actor.
"Here was a classically trained actor, and as we began rehearsals I discovered in his portrayal a sense of internalization, of passion, that you rarely find".
A classically trained actor, Mr. Crouch, 48, has deep-set eyes and an orblike, hairless head (it brings to mind Ralph Fiennes's Voldemort), which help make for the transfixing stage presence so essential to one-man shows.
But Mr. Hodge, a classically trained actor who is best known in British theater as a collaborator of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, is aiming for a performance that is more than boas, belting and bravura outbursts.
Mr. Leech, 60, a diminutive, classically trained actor with a master's degree in clinical psychology, looms large in the annals of the battles against counterfeiting.
Mr. Shatner's appearance in "Star Trek" has of course assured him a kind of immortality, as he acknowledges in a borderline maudlin segment from an interview he conducted with Patrick Stewart, the classically trained actor who played another sterling spaceship captain in the first of the "Star Trek" spinoffs.
Alan Rickman was the classically trained actor and RSC stalwart who made a splash in 1985 as the drawling sexual connoisseur Vicomte De Valmont in the stage version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
The classically trained actor once studied English literature at the academic institution.
But it was on television that the classically trained actor was most familiar, in both drama and comedy.
