ingenue

I’d love to see this film’s ingenue, Monica Barbaro, ascend to their ranks.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Rachel is taken with Gustav’s films, and the director sees a familiar spark of brilliance in the young ingenue.

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025

Born in New Jersey and raised in Florida, Gigi was a drama school nerd who turned to music when she realised she was "never going to be cast in the ingenue role".

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

Talent contests and megalomaniac record producers have always paired ingenue wannabes with experienced songwriters, for instance, cashing in quickly on success before the public's appetite for novelty fades.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

He also courted strong and straight — and unavailable — alpha men to whom he appeared happy to play the beta role of political ingénue.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Then the ingénue from the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders docuseries quit the whole thing—the squad, the hit show and the famous hot-pants uniform with matching white cowboy boots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

The last verse, and the album's closing words, are addressed to pop music's next young ingénue.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024

The eager cosmopolitan ingénue of the film stills is visible only in the rearview mirror.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

The first differs from its fellows only as being of the same class, but better; and the dialect of the ingénue Constance seems to have been thought interesting and pathetic.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

While the best actress award has often gone to ingénues, the best actor award has rarely gone to men below the age of 40.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Ms. Hunt said she begged studio executives to end her run of dewy-eyed coeds and romance-minded ingénues and give her a better range of parts, even if it meant a drop from marquee billing.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2022

“She’s one of the great ingénues, but she’s fiery, she’s different, she’s got a past.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2019

Sitting next to a casting director as a line of secondary ingénues streamed past, Dan said, “I vote for her,” and she got the part.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 8, 2019

She stood before the screen, certain she could practically smell the restaurant, the heavy perfumes of a room full of divas and ingénues.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny