public Actor FromXML(string input)
{
XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.IgnoreWhitespace = true;
settings.IgnoreComments = true;
XmlReader xmlr = XmlReader.Create(new System.IO.StringReader(input));
xmlr.MoveToContent();//xml
Load(xmlr);
xmlr.Close();
return this;
}