typecast
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The accolade led to her being typecast and overlooked for a lot of roles, including in theatre, she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Reiner, then 23, was already weary of being typecast as a mop-haired, love-bead-wearing revolutionary, a cliché he’d already played plenty, including in a cameo on “The Beverly Hillbillies.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
He had a prolific career but struggled with feeling typecast, he told BBC News Igbo back in 2021, which made him turn to content creation as a way to find more freedom.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
It’s been typecast as a condiment, a once-a-year flourish for shrimp cocktail or prime rib, when it could be so much more.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2025
Dead tired, I imagined, of the arguments, of the disapproval, and of being typecast.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The Duchess of Sussex will speak with historians and experts to "uncover the origin of these stereotypes and have uncensored conversations with women who know all too well how these typecasts shape narratives."
From Fox News ● Mar. 24, 2022
Our mythic democracy typecasts the Adamses as misfits, as poor representatives of a transformative idea that, even now, some lovers of country think of as divinely inspired.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2019
Along with pay issues, many filmmakers are looking for stories that move beyond female typecasts.
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2018
“The question is whether Jack Dorsey on the product side is willing to break some typecasts at the company and come in with a fresh perspective.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2015
He neither patronizes his Italian civilians, typecasts his G.I.s nor falsifies his combat scenes, which prove as taut as any fiction footage yet shot about World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
For decades, he tried to wriggle out of that typecasting to play kooks and himbos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
There’s stretches where he stayed so hectic that I wonder if he was still insecure about his longevity, his typecasting, his face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
The typecasting as wallflowers and frumps confused her.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
But it was different in the 1970s and '80s, when it was tough to get beyond the typecasting.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2023
How have you felt about typecasting in Hollywood and how has that affected your career?
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2022
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Theater - Middle School
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Theater - High School
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