Actor (disambiguation)
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An actor is a person who plays a role in theater or cinema. Actor can also mean:
- Actants, also called actors, in actor-network theory is a general theory of sociological behaviour
- In computing and artificial intelligence there are multiple usages:
- Actor (UML), in requirements analysis and UML
- Actor model, in concurrency, refers to a model of concurrent computation
- Actor (mythology), in Greek mythology, was the father of Menoetius and Astyoche
- Actor (Policy Debate), in Policy Debate, the entity that enacts a certain policy action
- Actor (software), an early (circa 1990) object-oriented programming (OOP) integrated development environment (IDE) for the Windows operating system.
- ACTOR, or A Commitment To Our Roots, a charity now known as The Hero Initiative founded to help comic book creators in need
- A back actor is part of a digging machine.
