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Call an actor a ‘luvvie’, and they will nearly always say, ‘No, I’m a thespian.’

Thespis was an actor who lived in 6th-century Greece. He was the first actor to play a character in a play on stage, a new style of drama that was called tragedy. He was also the first documented luvvie – sorry, thespian – to win an award for acting. It is not known whether he cried during his acceptance speech.