The phrase "a formidable actor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an actor who is impressive, powerful, or has a strong presence in their performances.
Example: "Her portrayal of the lead character was so captivating that many critics hailed her as a formidable actor in the industry."
Alternatives: "an impressive actor" or "a powerful actor".
Meaney is a formidable actor who makes a perfect straight man for Partridge.
Corin Redgrave, who has died aged 70, was both a formidable actor and a strenuous political activist.
Scorsese creates Patrick as fully equal to Jordan in guile and determination, and Kyle Chandler, a formidable actor, puts layers of amusement and contempt into his work.
French President Jacques Chirac said in a statement that Mr. Aumont was "a formidable actor who marked the history of the French theater and cinema and who also conquered Hollywood and Broadway with panache".
McCrory, who is best known in America for playing Narcissa Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" movies, is herself a formidable actor — "The really good thing about having babies, as I did, when you're seventy-five is that you've had a chance to establish your career first," she told British Vogue.
Comedian and writer Barry Cryer told 5 live Briers had been an "enormously popular, well-liked man", adding he was a "formidable actor and the most modest, you know, arrogant in his humility!".
When they found each other on the set of "Cleopatra," he was arguably the finest stage actor of his generation and became a formidable film actor through the force of her example.
At the same time, he was assisting a less experienced director, who was having some problems at the NT, with a new play starring a formidable American actor.
Although that role made him an international star and launched a long film career, it shouldn't be forgotten that he was a formidable stage actor.
A s a femme with more than a touch of fatale, Sheila Gish, who has died, aged 62, of cancer, was a formidable leading actor for the last 20 years of her distinguished career.
Larson's big break came with the Showtime series "United States of Tara," but she emerged as a formidable lead actor in 2013 with the small drama "Short Term 12".
