Collocations for actor, actress - noun

accomplished, brilliant, consummate, experienced, fine, good, great, talented, wonderful
He's a brilliant actor!
I just signed a talented young actor.

celebrated, famous, leading, principal, star, veteran, well-known
successful
Oscar-winning
Marlon Brando, the two-times Oscar-winning actor

A-list, B-list, etc.
main
bit-part, struggling, unknown
amateur, non-professional
professional
serious, trained
aspiring, wannabe, would-be
The college is offering aspiring actors the opportunity to work with a professional cast.

out-of-work, unemployed (esp. BrE)
character, classical, comedy (esp. BrE), comic, dramatic, Shakespearean, straight
Olivier was hailed as the leading classical actor of his generation.

film (esp. BrE), Hollywood, movie (esp. AmE), screen
television, TV
stage, theatre/theater
child
supporting
the award for best supporting actor

hire
audition, cast

act (sth), perform (sth), play (sb/sth), portray sb/sth
The same actor plays three different parts in the movie.

rehearse (sth)
audition
He was one of many actors who auditioned for the part of Hamlet.