Question

Difference between heroine and actress

Answer 1

Heroine can be any ordinary person getting admiration for her extraordinary works offscreen or maybe onscreen whereas an actress is someone who earns by playing various roles on screen

Answer 2

Heroine and actress are the same and both the words are describes female actor.  

Male actors are described as actor and female actors are described as actress or heroines.

The word “actor” comes from an archaic and it basically describes the gender differences.

Similarly, you can find the same differences between waiter and waitress, steward and stewardess, and sorcerer and sorceress.