The phrase "as a former actor" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone's past experience in acting, often to provide context or credibility to their current role or perspective.
Example: "As a former actor, she brings a unique understanding of character development to her writing."
Alternatives: "having been an actor" or "in my previous role as an actor."
As a former actor, Craig understands everyone's anxiety.
As a former actor (for example in "Red Sorghum", 1987), Mr Jiang knows how to milk a scene for laughs before turning it dark.
It starred Douglas as a former actor summoned by his onetime favorite director (Edward G. Robinson) to help salvage a troubled production.
As a former actor, I may be being a bit precious about this; but I was always under the impression that the curtain call was, well, a "special theatre moment".
It was the winter of 2007, and Mr. Morrissette, who describes himself as a former actor, former director-screenwriter and jack-of-all-trades, was newly single (he is divorced from the actress Maura Tierney) and back in New York after nearly two decades in Los Angeles.
She was back in Dublin as Mrs O'Kelly in a well-remembered revival of Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun (2005) and toured to the Edinburgh festival and New York in 2013 with Deirdre Kinahan's two-hander These Halcyon Days in which, opposite Stephen Brennan as a former actor, she played a retired primary schoolteacher in a nursing home with her customary humour, grace and large, watery eyes.
But as Marsh, a former actor, tells it, that's how the system worked before he conceived the idea as a way to put himself through college in 1971.
"It's been described as Brigadoon," said Daniel Osman, a former actor who has run the Dream Away since 1997, and who seems to know pretty much everyone — many of them artists — who walks in the door.
He is also a former actor known as Stephen McNaughton who appeared on stage and in television soap operas, including "All My Children".
"It is pleasure almost to the point of unbearable ecstasy," he wrote upon meeting the mystic, a former actor known as Master Charles, who was himself a disciple of a prominent Indian spiritual guru and who founded the Synchronicity Foundation here in 1983.
Lennon, a former actor, was named as one of four "theatre practitioners of colour" to benefit from a £406,500 two-year funding package from Arts Council England.
