nonactorish

English

Etymology

non- +‎ actorish

Adjective

nonactorish (comparative more nonactorish, superlative most nonactorish)

  1. Not actorish; natural; genuine.
    • 1981, Mario Eugenio Beguiristain, Theatrical Realism: An American Film Style of the Fifties, page 645:
      Another good effort, the nonactorish playing of academy troublemakers in The Strange One, is nearly ruined by Gazzara's self-satisfied pantomime and three bit players who use banality to plug up the slapdash generalizing of Willingham's script.
    • 1987 September 7, David Denby, “The Princess and the Peon”, in New York Magazine, volume 20, number 35, page 61:
      Jennifer Grey (Joel Grey's daughter) is a little guarded and nonactorish, and that works for her in the part of Baby, who's unformed.
    • 2015, Emanuel Levy, Gay Directors, Gay Films?:
      With hyper pacing and naturalistic (nonactorish) performances, Kids earns its claimed authenticity.
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