[UNDER-1 6 a.] A subordinate actor or agent.
1723. Blackmore, Alfred, Pref. 46. The chaste, discreet, and honourable Characters of the chief Heroe and other under-Actors.
1771. Goldsm., Hist. Eng., IV. 79. Some of the under actors, seized with fear or remorse, resolved to prevent the execution by a timely discovery.
a. 1797. H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. II. (1822), I. 199. I take leave of the reader, to add this person’s portrait to those of the under-actors.
