ingenue
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A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
But her school had a traditionally beautiful ingenue who landed the leads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
And Williamson, at 60, is no longer an industry ingenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
It was such an ingenue thing to say, and Adina had never played that role.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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 actress and former professional ballet dancer Sarah Hay, who played the damaged ballet ingénue Claire Robbins in the 2015 mini-series “Flesh and Bone,” said she drew from her own experiences while shaping the character.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
The last verse, and the album's closing words, are addressed to pop music's next young ingénue.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
But, as she had to play an ingénue, aged eighteen, in The Great Unknown, she was not quite convincing.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890 by Various
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
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
Her troupe did such physical work — "we weren't ingénues at all" — that it actually took her years to unlearn larger-than-life stage theater and transition to naturalistic film acting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2018
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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