1. onscreen - Adjective
2. onscreen - Adverb
onscreen (not comparable)
As seen on a screen (as of television, film, or computer) rather than in real life.
The two actors had a very realistic on-screen romance, but in reality they couldn't stand each other.
onscreen (not comparable)
Inside the frame of the cinema, television or computer screen.
I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen. Garth Brooks
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. George Clooney
The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen. Dayo Okeniyi
The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw. Conan O'Brien
Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up. Scott Wolf
I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art. Helena Bonham Carter