The phrase "a good actor of" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly when referring to someone's skill in acting, as the preposition "of" is not appropriate in this context.
Example: "He is a good actor of dramatic roles" should be "He is a good actor in dramatic roles."
Alternatives: "a good performer in" or "a skilled actor in".
It takes a good actor to play the part of a serious man... On the countenances of our greatest Chief Executives since George Washington, the photographers & painters of Civil War times almost always found & recorded melancholy and brooding expressions.
"We shouldn't be relying on a good actor to protect the health of an entire population," he said Wednesday.
While it's possible for a good actor to recreate an expression of extreme anger simply by moving his facial muscles in the right ways, it's more difficult to recreate extreme sadness without the addition of tears.
Another is Fiona Glascott as Lot's alternately shrill and flirtatious wife of all of two days, who succumbs to the advances of Lot's mixed-race half-brother, Chicken (David Sturzaker, a good actor in need of greater menace).
Well, we were saying, 'No woman would make that stupid mistake!' " Nussbaum left Harvard in 1983, after she was denied tenure, a decision she attributes, in part, to a "venomous dislike of me as a very outspoken woman" and the machinations of a colleague who could "show a good actor how the role of Iago ought to be played".
He was a constant defender of human rights, a passionate polemicist, a fair cricketer, a good actor, and a playwright of rare power and profound originality.
Patrick was a sex symbol and a good actor and the combination of the two was very rare.
But you can see the flash of anxiety behind Liotta's eyes - the anxiety of a good actor who doesn't know what he's supposed to be doing.
"All the prisoners accused me of faking it, of being a good actor," he said during the interview.
Coulter says that the BBC sees BitTorrent as more of a good actor, though.
