The word action, in general terms, refers to the action and result of acting, that is, putting into action, assimilating, exercising a function, causing a certain effect or acting.
Interpretation that an actor performs of a character
The most widespread use of the word is to designate the An actor's or actress's interpretation of a character in a play, TV show, or movie.
This activity begins with a personal search that the actor will carry out to know and understand the way of acting of his character, which can be fictitious or be inspired by a real person, a fact that of course will also affect the work he does on the same.
The actor is the professional who will carry out the aforementioned performance, that is, he is the one who will give life to the character of a story, staging everything that he considers will mark the essence of the character. In addition, all the actions, no matter how simple and everyday the character in question may be, will require a physical characterization, which will be achieved thanks to the costumes, makeup, hairstyle, visual effects and any other tool that adds to the characterization that you want to achieve.
Because mainly the objective is that the performance is the most credible and credible possible for the viewer to get fully into the story and suspend for that time the notion of reality, which is popularly said as believing the character.
"Sandra Bullock's performance in her latest film was well worth the Oscar Award." "Carla is taking acting classes with a theater director because she wants to be an actress".
Each nation has its own acting tradition that it venerates and continues on local television programs or in the theater, while the cinema also allows us to appreciate figures of world action.
Celebrities
The actors, especially those who have played roles that went out of the media and enjoyed a tremendous popular repercussion, are people who, beyond these roles that they play on TV, in the cinema or the theater, arouse great interest from the public who wants to know more about their lives, to meet the person behind the characters.
For example, many graphic publications, television programs, web pages, among others, specialize in informing about the news and intimacies that surround them: with whom they live, with whom they are dating, what they do in their free time, between Another questions.
We must say that many famous actors deny this punctual and constant monitoring carried out by a certain sector of the press and so it is that on many occasions news also arrive of their confrontations with paparazzi or journalists who portrayed them, or wanted to portray in some private situation .
That of the actor is a millenary profession, towards the 6th century BC, in Ancient Greece, information about people who carried out the activity of acting began to appear.
For a long time it was a profession that only accepted men and left out women, even many men played female roles.
Only towards the seventeenth century did the consideration begin to change and the actor began to be revalued and to obtain more rights.
Music: presentation of an artist or musical group
Also the concept of performance is often used in the context of music to refer to the presentation of an artist or group. "Tomorrow we will have a performance with the band, we would like you to come."
Exercise of a function
On the other hand, a performance refers to the exercise of a function that will be typical of the office that is performed. "The performance of the firefighters in the fire was impeccable, no one was injured."
This sense of the term is often widely used to refer to the exercise of functions of a public official.
Pretense
In informal language, when you talk about acting, you are generally referring to a lie, to the development of a feigned action or behavior. "His collapse into a swoon was so forced that I did not believe his performance."
