1. guest star - Noun
2. guest star - Verb
(music) A guest on a music or other recording.
(television) An actor on a television program who stars in one, or a few, episodes.
Of an actor: to star as a guest.
(sports) Of a player: to play as a guest of another team.
guest star (plural guest stars)
(astronomy) A nova or supernova recorded by the Chinese.
guest-star (plural guest-stars)
Alternative form of guest star
guest-star (third-person singular simple present guest-stars, present participle guest-starring, simple past and past participle guest-starred)
Alternative form of guest star
guest-star
When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. Robert Vaughan
It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows. Mark Sheppard
I can't even tell you how many different shows I would love to guest star on because there's just too many. Brian Dietzen
I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do. Janel Moloney
I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing. Joan Van Ark
I recurred on Grey's Anatomy for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on Rescue Me. And I'd recurred for nine episodes on The Practice. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character. Kate Burton