"enact the role" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone assuming the responsibilities of a particular role, especially in the context of a theatrical performance, movie, or other creative project. For example, "Beth did a great job enacting the role of the miserly old man in the school play."
When chunks of Spanish conversation become hard to follow he zones out, leaving his face to enact the role of involved listener and participant.
Men from Nandgaon enact the role of Krishna and his friends, provoking the women of Barsana by singing songs and hurling provocative, sexually explicit abuses.
His aspiration towards theatre grew at the math and was once given an opportunity to enact the role of Ekalavya's friend from the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
The photographer equipped models with mermaid tails made by designer Cynthia Brault to enact the role of a beached mermaid, hopelessly stranded upon thousands of plastic bottles 10,000 to be exact.
Informal caregivers enact the role of a 'life buddy', who shares with the patients the whole life experience beyond illness.
In this study we were able to verify that the three concepts influence implementation of the role and the ability of the NP to enact the role.
Rather than offering thrill rides, like Disney World, or video-game arcades, like Chuck E. Cheese's, KidZania gives children between the ages of four and fourteen the chance to enact the roles of grownups in a lavishly realized, scaled-down world.
The equally versatile actors Christian Dante White and James T. Lane, who play two of the Scottsboro boys, enact the roles of the women who brought the accusations, depicted as grotesque, simpering paragons of venal white Southern womanhood, even when one of them recants her testimony.
Socio-cultural change, in many respects imposed on Aboriginal men by external forces, has been compressed into a relatively short period of time, and has had devastating impacts on clarity in, and opportunities to self-define and enact, the roles and identity of Aboriginal men within contemporary society [ 49].
(Later Ms. Fukatsu enacts the role).
