A screen persona is not necessarily what you get in person.
"So of course you have to give a nod to her screen persona when playing her."
The role solidified his screen persona as a wisecracking, arrogant leading man.
There's little that anyone can say about the real man that the screen persona hasn't said first.
The warmth of Kelly's screen persona adds to the effect.
In the early 1970s she established her screen persona as a free-spirited, beautiful young woman and became a fashion icon.
Mr. Reynolds, by contrast, is a prisoner of his screen persona.
His screen persona had deep roots in classical Japanese drama.
There are more aspects to a screen persona - or, for that matter, to any human presence - than a voice and a look.
He was reputed to be as dangerous as his screen persona.