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on-screen
[ on-skreen, awn- ]
adjective
- occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life:
a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.
- displayed on a television screen; supplied by means of television:
an on-screen course in economics.
adverb
- in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life:
On-screen he's a villain.
Word History and Origins
Origin of on-screen1
Example Sentences
As Violet, a widowed therapist whose night out goes south when she starts receiving threatening demands for her to kill her date, Fahy is on-screen almost the entire film, running a gamut of flirty jitters, terrorized trauma and steely reserve.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Trachtenberg’s on-screen older sister in “Buffy,” shared a collection of photos from their time together on the series.
For Saxon, who first wanted to become an illustrator before going to film school, his choice of mixing puppets with other mediums in his work comes from a desire to make the viewer rethink what’s possible on-screen.
The affection the actors have for each other is palpable even across the separate boxes they occupy on-screen during our Zoom call across several different time zones, including New York and South Korea.
Murnau’s “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans,” a 1927 tear-jerker about another killer date where where the on-screen text “Couldn’t she get drowned?” sinks into a murky lake.
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