Definition of “alter ego”

Actor Ray Stevenson insists his love-cheat alter ego has changed for the better.

For Mr Incredible, this meant always being his alter ego Bob Parr, insurance claims officer.

It was as though, for a moment, the girl in the photograph had returned, elbowing her ungainly alter ego out of the way.

Like her emotionally fragile alter ego on TV, she was in no mood for sensible advice.

Mr Winterson's alter ego is not for publication to your Holtchester colleagues.

Ruth Rendell writes detective stories about Inspector Wexford; her alter ego Barbara Vine writes psychological explorations.

So close an alter ego is he that Goodrich considers them to be one and the same person.

With Todd Carty's days on the soap numbered, the scriptwriters are desperate to give his alter ego , Mark Fowler, some juicy storylines.

`We'll have the Rowlands, Lawrence Emmerson and his alter ego Dorothy, you, myself and the romantic Lucian.