No. Actors are entertaining, because that's their primary skill set. Actors are on average simply better equipped to, say, deliver a speech well, because of long practice. There is less friction in watching them. Taking a guess where you're coming from: Rather than resent that, engineers should work on improving their communication skill, and not discriminate against communication-savvy peers. Healthy respect for other fields and their challenges doesn't diminish ours.
The original comment reminds of when people say "I hate that Steve Jobs is famous and [insert genius hacker/programmer] is not!!!". Of course they aren't. Steve Jobs, like famous actors, are public people and either like being in public or have to. Scientists, programmers, etc. usually don't (but the ones that do, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, are well liked) or don't really care about it and thus people just don't know about them.
