screen presence

noun

: a quality that attracts attention in movies
She has tremendous screen presence.

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Which doesn’t mean Charli doesn’t have screen presence, obviously. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2026 Sambha remains one of the most recognizable characters in Indian cinema, and Mac Mohan brought a unique screen presence that audiences never forgot. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 May 2026 Krasinski is, as always, an affable, engaging screen presence and is physically convincing going through the action paces (Ryan was originally conceived as a more cerebral figure, but he certainly hasn’t been played onscreen that way). — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026 The burden of explaining how the hell that happened is on head housekeeper Lily (Arquette) and her husband Ray (Paterson Joseph), both of whom have a commanding enough screen presence to make the exposition bearable. — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for screen presence

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