professional person vs actor

professional person and actor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
professional person	Yes	No	No	No
actor	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, actor is a hypernym of professional person; that is, actor is a word with a broader meaning than professional person:

Other hypernyms of professional person include doer, worker.

professional person (noun)	actor (noun)
a person engaged in one of the learned professions	a theatrical performer
	a person who acts and gets things done