Well the term actress is a bit nonsensical. You could add that suffix to every noun...welder and weldertress etc. The Oscars use it for marketing purposes. They could also say Best male actor and Best female actor.
I went to Summer Camp one year when I was about 12 years old, and was taught how to bait a hook, cast, reel in, by a male teacher.
I told him that I was becoming a ‘fisherwoman’; and he said, “No, the correct term for one who fishes is ‘fisherman’.”
I never had a problem with that.