The phrase "chief actor" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the main or most important person responsible for carrying out a certain action or achieving a certain goal. Example: In the company's success, Mary was the chief actor, as she led the team and made critical decisions.
As in all her work, Pushpamala N. is chief actor as well as director, and she is a charismatic on-camera presence.
Death is being accepted as the end of nature's cycle - and people are remembering, in Dr Nuland's words, 'that the chief actor is the dying person, not the doctors trying to save him'.
In 1933, when the Yankees were playing in Washington, Chapman was the chief actor in one of baseball's most turbulent on-field brawls involving the Senators' Buddy Myer, one of the few Jewish major league players.
The new paintings constitute the first real compositions having a clear narrative meaning, and man finally emerges as the chief actor in the dramas played out on the rock walls.
The chief actor of the Admiral's Men was Edward Alleyn; their manager and effectively their employer until his death in 1616 was Philip Henslowe, whose Diary, covering the years 1592 to 1603, documents the Elizabethan theatre and its organization.
Indeed, a recent UN Fact-Finding Mission concluded that social media has played a "determining role" in the Myanmar crisis, with Facebook identified as the chief actor.
In this theory of depression, the chief actors were chemicals, seratonin chief among them, that transmitted electrical impulses from one neuron to the next.
It tells them they are still the chief actors on the world stage, the vanguard of human progress that embodies the meaning of history.
Austria: popular Viennese playwrights of the early 19th century (Gewey, A. Von Schaden, V. Puchler, C.C. Martin). Also literature dealing with the chief actors and producers in Vienna and Berlin between 1850 and 1900.
In the period from 1606 to 1613, during the so-called Time of Troubles, chaos gripped most of central Muscovy; Muscovite boyars, Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian Cossacks, and assorted mobs of adventurers and desperate citizens were among the chief actors.
This is Arnott's second novel -- his first, "The Long Firm," is being made into a five-part series for the BBC -- and his chief actors are three small-timers: a cop, a crook and a tabloid journalist.
