actress

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A female who performs on the stage or in films.

   A while ago somewhere I don't know when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand

2. 2
   noun

   A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).

   My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.

3. 3
   noun

   a female actor

Etymology

From actor + -ess. Probably formed independently of Middle French actrice.