# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tag-actors/940772)._