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Free sign upThe phrase "act the role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to performing or embodying a character in a play, film, or other performance contexts.
Example: "In the school play, she was able to act the role of the queen with great confidence and skill."
Alternatives: "play the part" or "perform the role".
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"We knew she could act the role.
Disliking his own mother, he liked his girlfriends to act the role of doting mother.
From his therapy experiences, Charlie picks up how to act the role of shrink.
Hamlet, for example, began with his vision of seeing John Barrymore act the role on stage.
As I have to act the role of myself, I feel a bit self-conscious and have become a pendulum between "life" and "art".
Meanwhile, Signor Gallo continued to act the role of Boccanegra and mime the words that the executed Paolo was singing for him.
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To act the roles, do they feel they need to know all the answers to the riddle at the heart of the play?
The director acted the role on stage, a performance that few who witnessed it will forget.
For the most ambitious performance, "Something Cool," Ms. Gore acted the role of a garrulous, self-deluded barfly reasonably well.
Elizabeth Gaither has the liquid fluency of the Sylph, acts the role with all the right feeling, but shows none of the phenomenal lightness that this role requires.
Hayley portrayed the loan operation to me in military terms: Sanea acted the role of field marshal, with Stewart as his "main general".
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