I don't really think that too many people are aware of Hewitt et al's intentions behind the Actor model - e.g. no global knowledge (emulating a scientific community), actors can only send messages to known acquaintances, only async messages, no need for additional baggage per actor such as mailboxes or lightweight threads. I'm not sure that matters here though.

The author is clearly interested in developing a derivative of Erlang/OTP that works for the author. Erlang is often described as an implementation of the actor model.