ingenue
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Since Deutch’s first lead role in the undervalued 2014 “Twilight” piggybacker “Vampire Academy,” her screen presence has been 15-going-on-45: a dimpled ingenue with the confident patter of a Preston Sturges heroine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 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
Purser’s Anne isn’t the demure ingenue of more traditional productions, even though McDonald’s Edouard Dindon has no problem playing the farcical parental heavy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 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
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
All of the things that make him an unlikely ingénue — the flop sweat, the slight chunkiness, the desire to pass for a cute foodie — click into place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
The younger women are the most vulnerable to this idealistic image people have for us to have it all figured out before the clock strikes 30, and we are no longer the young ingénue.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
And when she left here a year ago, she was just a fairly good ingénue.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
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
They stood in stark contrast to the ingénues and highly feminine characters girls and women were often restricted to.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
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
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