The phrase "a distinguished actor in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is notable or respected in their acting career, often followed by a specific context or work.
Example: "He is a distinguished actor in the world of theater, known for his powerful performances."
Alternatives: "a renowned actor in" or "a celebrated actor in".
His father, Sir Michael, was both a great classical actor and a popular film star; his mother, Rachel Kempson, was also a distinguished actor.
"Back at the RCS, playing an iconic character opposite one of the most distinguished actors in the country, under the watchful eye of a passionate, intelligent director?
Many distinguished actors appeared in Theatre Guild productions, including Helen Hayes in Caesar and Cleopatra and Alla Nazimova in Mourning Becomes Electra.
Chosen to play Quatermass was the distinguished actor John Mills, who had appeared in significant roles in many high profile British films, including The Way to the Stars (1945), Great Expectations (1946), and Ice Cold in Alex (1958), and had won an Academy Award for his role in Ryan's Daughter (1970).
Here, Mr. de Oliveira's alter ego, Gilbert Valence Michel Piccoliis, is a distinguished French actor shown flexing his talent in roles from two plays: as a dying monarch railing wildly and foolishly against death in Ionesco's "Exit the King," and as Prospero in "The Tempest".
Mr. Buscemi, who played Tony Soprano's cousin in "The Sopranos," is a distinguished character actor and certainly a distinctive one: bug-eyed and cadaverous, he speaks in a tinny voice that sounds like a 33 1/3 r.p.m. record played at 45.
A working-class boy from Scotland who rose to play lead roles at the Old Vic, he later became a distinguished and revered actor in Canada.
Arye Gross, a distinguished character actor, plays Benny, Anna's unmarried brother, and in addition to Mr. Loggia and Ms. Clark, the film stars Barbara Barrie, the Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-nominated actress, as Yetta, the grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
(Kapoor's real father, Prithviraj Kapoor, a distinguished stage actor, plays the magistrate).
