ingenue
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His previous feature, 2016’s love-it-or-hate-it loony toon “The Neon Demon,” was a modeling industry semi-satire that featured beauties quite literally gobbling up their ingenue competition.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
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
Andrea the acorn-headed ingenue getting her own back.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
For Early it was also a chance to fulfill his longtime desire to play an old-school ingénue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
This woman should be smoking cigarettes in a Parisian cafe, not getting up to the bubbly mischief Van der Velden envisions for her ingénue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
And when she left here a year ago, she was just a fairly good ingénue.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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
“I had my 36th birthday on ‘King Kong’ — I was still playing ingénues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
When one of the industry’s hottest directors holds open auditions for his latest movie, ingénues, heartthrobs and spurned divas get tangled in the plot.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 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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