# Tag actors **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [July 18, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tag-actors/940772 "2026-07-18T17:20:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![barbaro62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@barbaro62](https://forums.plex.tv/u/barbaro62)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tag-actors/940772/1 "2026-07-18T17:20:57Z")
Why isn’t there an **Actors** category under **Tags** in the **Edit** section? It would be so helpful. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tag-actors/940772/2 "2026-07-18T17:29:23Z")
With so many same-named actors, tagging them by merely a string won’t be of much help — especially with the default agents doing a good job to pull cast & crew information from their metadata backend. That being said… Plex will recognize embedded metadata tags listing actors. This can be helpful to tag family members in home videos. It won’t help much with regular movies / shows as such manually tagged items won’t merge with actors pulled from online metadata sources. If you’re super desperate about manually tagging these things, you might want to check out the NFO agent preview. > [@Plex NFO Agent Forum Preview](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-nfo-agent-forum-preview/936104/1): > > Hi everyone! Official support for NFO files has been a highly requested feature for a long time and we promised it would be coming towards the end of last year. Some other priorities got in the way of that but today I wanted to share the first preview build to get some feedback and test it out in the wild before we release it publicly. This preview has support for movie and TV show (including season/episode) NFO files. Music NFO support is not currently on the roadmap but we will reevaluate th… ---
**Author:** ![Panthercules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Panthercules](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Panthercules)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tag-actors/940772/3 "2026-07-18T18:44:12Z")
> [@tom80H](#): > > That being said… Plex will recognize embedded metadata tags listing actors. This can be helpful to tag family members in home videos. This statement intrigued me, so I’ve been trying to figure out how to tag my home movies with “actors” but have so far been unsuccessful with the few free or trial versions I’ve found via Google to try to edit/add actor-related metadata to my .m4v files. Do you have any suggestions for programs/apps to use for this purpose, and is there some specific setting(s) in Plex that need to be configured to make these “actors” show up in Plex? ---
**Author:** ![barbaro62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@barbaro62](https://forums.plex.tv/u/barbaro62)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tag-actors/940772/4 "2026-07-18T21:09:19Z")
There are concerts, or theater performances which have been recorded but are not official movies or dvds, That is the occasion when you need to input all the data manually. And you cannot add actors. It would be nice to have a dialogue box for that, as you have for directors and writers. Thanks tom80H and Phanthercules for your time and help. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tag-actors/940772/5 "2026-07-18T22:05:57Z")
I’ve been using Subler which is available for macOS only. ---
**Author:** ![barbaro62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@barbaro62](https://forums.plex.tv/u/barbaro62)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 5:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tag-actors/940772/6 "2026-07-19T05:22:30Z")
Thank you very much.