The phrase "a classically trained actor who" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an actor's background or training, particularly in the context of traditional acting techniques or methods.
Example: "She is a classically trained actor who has performed in numerous Shakespearean plays."
Alternatives: "an actor with classical training" or "a trained actor in classical techniques."
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.
Alan Rickman, who died on Thursday, at the age of sixty-nine, was a classically trained actor who did time in the Royal Shakespeare Company and made his name in modern theatrical productions, notably "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," which he starred in first in London, in 1985, and then on Broadway, in 1987.
Mr. Jason, 78, is a classically trained actor who not only recorded the book but did the abridgement of the earlier version and also translated the final volume, which Proust's first English translator, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, left unfinished at his death.
In tackling the part, Mr. MacFadyen, a classically trained actor who enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art just after high school, tried not to be unnerved by the specter of his predecessors, particularly Mr. Firth, universally acknowledged to be the gold standard of Darcyness until now.
David Case, 73, a classically trained actor who recorded more than 700 books on audiotape, died Oct. 1 at his home in El Sobrante, Calif.
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.
Formed in 1991 as a research and study group for classically trained actors who had strayed from the stage into film and television, Antaeus (the name derives from the mythical wrestler) has 70 members, 60 of whom are actors.
I like that". This is to be expected, perhaps, from a classically trained actor from Toronto who studied for two years at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival on Ontario.
Dalton, who is a classically trained actor, gives a better performance than Sean Connery or Roger Moore ever did.
"I knew a lot of this was coming," Brandon Burton, a fan of Star Wars who works as a classically trained actor, wrote me in a email.
