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
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
“I don’t know. I don’t have that whole ingenue thing down like she does.”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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
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
The last verse, and the album's closing words, are addressed to pop music's next young ingénue.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
Kelli O’Hara and Adam Guettel had the inkling more than 20 years ago, when she was a Broadway ingénue, working on what became her breakthrough Tony-nominated role in “Light in the Piazza.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 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
“I had my 36th birthday on ‘King Kong’ — I was still playing ingénues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 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
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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