Unusual actor I associated with a foreign country (7)
I believe the answer is:
croatia
'country' is the definition.
(Croatia is an example)
'unusual actor i associated with a foreign' is the wordplay.
'unusual' is an anagram indicator.
'associated with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'foreign' indicates anagramming the letters (foreign order of the letters).
'actor' anagrammed gives 'croat'.
'i' put after 'a' is 'ai'.
'ai' with letters rearranged gives 'ia'.
'croat'+'ia'='CROATIA'
(Other definitions for croatia that I've seen before include "Split country?" , "European state" , "Balkan country, capital Zagreb" , "Land in South-East Europe" , "Balkan republic, capital Zagreb" .)