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starring

[stahr-ing]

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adjective

featured or celebrated as a star in a movie, on a sports team, etc..
He was already the starring quarterback on his high school football team, which was on its way to a state championship.
(of a character or role) leading, central, or primary.
The earliest performance I can remember is when I played the starring role in a drama called The Littlest Angel at church.
As the town’s largest employer, the university also plays a starring role in the local economy.
featuring a specified performer.
They didn't give a beginner a starring movie when I started acting 18 years ago.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of starring¹

star ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

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The curfew remains in effect Wednesday, and Center Theatre Group has again been forced to cancel director Robert O’Hara’s world-premiere adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic, starring Patrick Ball from the hit Max show “The Pitt.”

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A biopic of his life and career, Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack and Paul Dano playing Wilson at different stages, was released to critical acclaim in the same year.

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Patsy Ferran, starring opposite Paul Mescal in the Almeida Theatre production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, was, hands down, the best performance I saw all year.

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Even if Posey had no clue that her first starring role would become one of her career’s defining moments, like Mary, you’d think it was destiny.

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Director Robert O’Hara’s noir version of ‘Hamlet,’ starring Patrick Ball and premiering at Mark Taper Forum, audaciously but incoherently toys with Shakespeare’s tragedy.

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