The phrase "actually original" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that something is genuinely new or unique, often in contrast to something that may seem original but is not.
Example: "The artist's latest work is actually original, unlike many of the pieces we've seen in recent exhibitions."
Alternatives: "truly original" or "genuinely original".
Apart from being controversial, the tweet is not actually original.
(Horrifying though this is, it isn't actually original - the 2005 film Chaos showed a woman being anally raped with a knife).
"He had to persuade us to do the first one in England," Steve Coogan says, "and it was only halfway through that I realised that it really was something different, that this was actually original.
In a series of tweets, Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of the website Mother Jones, lambasted Trump Jr and contrasted his comments with her mother's efforts to help refugees from the Cambodian genocide: Apart from being controversial, the tweet is not actually original.
"That's why we put a window on the back of it," explains Heck, "to show off the wiring and prove that it's not an emulation, it's actually original hardware".
Partygoers were still fooled though; many had no idea his versions of tracks like "Professional Widow" by Tori Amos, "Sugar Daddy" by CJ Bolland, and "Spin Spin Sugar" by the Sneaker Pimps weren't actually original things!
Maybe it was because I'd just been told that the five Picasso prints I could see from my seat were actually originals.
"Actually, my original conception for 'The Place' was truly grandiose.
Though it appears restored to new condition, it is actually "all original," Mr. Puetz said.
The other was a thirty-five-hundred-year-old tree just outside Orlando, Florida — actually, the original tourist attraction before Disney.
Actually, the original title, "A Bout de Souffle," might be better translated as "Out of Breath," with more somber connotations.
