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Actor in a play, perhaps a Split personality? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

croatian

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'a split personality?' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'actor in a play' is the wordplay.
'actor' becomes 'croat' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'play' indicates anagramming the letters.
'in'+'a'='ina'
'ina' anagrammed gives 'ian'.
'croat'+'ian'='CROATIAN'

'perhaps' is the link.

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(Other definitions for croatian that I've seen before include "One from Zagreb, say" , "from area in Europe" , "Slavic language" , "European native" , "Native to a Balkan republic that became independent in 1991" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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