ingenue
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A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
And Williamson, at 60, is no longer an industry ingenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
He nearly lost a rare gig when the ingenue said he was too ugly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 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
“I don’t know. I don’t have that whole ingenue thing down like she does.”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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
In these images Sellers—a comic giant at the height of his career—acts as an eager paparazzo chasing after the self-assured ingénue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
She also found she was referencing the arc of an ingénue in a Jennifer Blowdryer book she nabbed in Silver Lake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
And to show you how broad-minded I am, I’ll get her to bring downstairs the sweetest and daintiest American ingénue you’d find between here and Chicago, even if you went by way of Paris.
From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Tracy, Louis
Instead, the ingénues were cast in lead roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
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
Pre-Code actresses no longer played merely vamps or ingénues, those twin feminine archetypes that dominated the silent era.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 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
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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