The phrase "actual legacy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the true or real impact or inheritance left by someone or something, often in a historical or cultural context.
Example: "The actual legacy of the civil rights movement is seen in the ongoing fight for equality and justice."
Alternatives: "true legacy" or "real legacy".
What matters is Satoshi's actual legacy.
A century after Sykes-Picot, much confusion reigns about its actual legacy.
But seven years later, despite the visible improvements, it is unclear how impressive the actual legacy for the area and its youths will turn out to be.
I see the silent, rapid destruction of his actual legacy, all while his biography and his colorful house get more popular".
"I think eventually people are going to recognize the crying Jordan face more than his actual legacy," a real twenty-four-year-old person told the Wall Street Journal earlier this year.
As much as Proposition 13 signaled a national revolt against taxes that reverberates to this day, its actual legacy in California — not just the proposition itself, but the way Mr. Brown and the Legislature responded to it — has emerged as a major obstacle to the new governor as he confronts what is probably the worst fiscal crisis in this state's history.
He can let the people decide and make this an actual legacy-building moment rather than just another campaign roadshow".
He can let the people decide and make this an actual legacy-building moment rather than just another campaign roadshow". Oh brother, look who's talking.
Isadora's real legacy is not in her actual dances.
Far from consolidating a right-wing dictatorship, Bush's actual political legacy may well turn out to be resuscitating American liberalism.
Everything about Skopje 2014 is about facades; its actual historical legacy covered with a new narrative that concentrates on Greek-speaking warlords of the fourth century BC or Bulgarian revolutionaries of the 1900s.
