Collocations for portray - verb

accurately
clearly
graphically, vividly
an incident that graphically portrays the dangers associated with this sport
The museum collection vividly portrays the heritage of 200 years of canals.

convincingly

attempt to, try to

as
They try to portray themselves as the victims.

Portray is used with these nouns as the subject:
actor, actress, artist, film, media, movie, painting

Portray is used with these nouns as the object:
character, hero, woman