onscreen

UK: /ˌɒnˈskriːn/

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

on-screen  (on′skrēn′, ôn′-), adj. 

1. Cinema, Show Business occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life:
   a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.
2. Cinema, Show Business displayed on a television screen;
   supplied by means of television:
   an on-screen course in economics.

adv. 

3. Cinema, Show Business in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life:
   On-screen he's a villain.

• 1950–55