title: Actor (disambiguation)
text: # Actor (disambiguation)
  
  An actor is a person who plays a role in theater, cinema or television.
  
  ## Films and entertainment
  
  * Actor (album), a 2009 album by St. Vincent
  * Actor (1978 film), a 1978 TV movie by American director Norman Lloyd
  * Actor (1993 film), a 1993 film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  * Actor (2016 film), an Indian Kannada psychological thriller
  * A Screen Actors Guild Award, also known as the Actor
  
  ## Science and computing
  
  * Actants, also called "actors", in actor-network theory (a general theory of sociological behaviour), the one who performs the act
  * In Interactions of Actors Theory, excitations in any medium able to produce action, a theory of cybernetics
  * Actor (UML), in requirements analysis and UML
  * Actor model, in concurrency, refers to a model of concurrent computation
  * Actor (programming language), an early object-oriented programming integrated development environment (IDE) for the Windows operating system
  * Actor, one of the two semantic macroroles in Role and reference grammar
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * 12238 Actor, Jovian asteroid
  * Actor, a person who performs an action in a 'real-world', non-theatrical situation
  * Actor (law)
  * Actor (mythology), in Greek mythology, refers to a number of characters, including the father of Menoetius and Astyoche
  * Actor (policy debate), the entity that enacts a certain policy action
  * ACTOR (A Commitment to Our Roots), former name of The Hero Initiative
  * "Actor", a 2015 song by Joker Xue
  * Backhoe, part of a digging machine, sometimes called "back actor"
  