The phrase "formidable actor" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe an actor who is skilled, talented, and impressive in their performances. Example: "Meryl Streep is known as a formidable actor, having won multiple Academy Awards for her powerful performances."
Meaney is a formidable actor who makes a perfect straight man for Partridge.
Corin Redgrave, who has died aged 70, was both a formidable actor and a strenuous political activist.
Scorsese creates Patrick as fully equal to Jordan in guile and determination, and Kyle Chandler, a formidable actor, puts layers of amusement and contempt into his work.
His beard is turning silver now, but Mr. Kani is still the formidable actor who thrilled audiences when he starred in the plays of Athol Fugard, South Africa's most prominent playwright.
French President Jacques Chirac said in a statement that Mr. Aumont was "a formidable actor who marked the history of the French theater and cinema and who also conquered Hollywood and Broadway with panache".
McCrory, who is best known in America for playing Narcissa Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" movies, is herself a formidable actor — "The really good thing about having babies, as I did, when you're seventy-five is that you've had a chance to establish your career first," she told British Vogue.
Winters and Borichevsky are formidable actors, good-looking and terrific to watch.
He has formidable actors at his disposal: Sigourney Weaver as the pharaoh's wife, Hiam Abbass as Moses' adoptive mother, Ben Kingsley as the Hebrew leader who first recognises Moses.
Some of the most successful singers in the history of opera refrained from acting entirely — Pavarotti was most convincing as himself — but among the greatest of singers there have also been formidable actors and actresses, and Dessay, who calls herself a "singing actor," is the performer who best represents that tradition today.
The intentions don't just govern the action but seem to clog it like wet cement, bulking up the screen and filling in the space, leaving neither the characters nor the often formidable actors who play them (and Hill is one of the most inventive actors around) any room to maneuver, any margin of freedom, any air of spontaneity, any semblance of existence.
Hands down, one of the most formidable actors I've worked with.
