ingenue
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In Hollywood, as an actress — listen, once you’re not an ingenue, you’re done, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
I’d love to see this film’s ingenue, Monica Barbaro, ascend to their ranks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 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
Andrea the acorn-headed ingenue getting her own back.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
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
The younger women are the most vulnerable to this idealistic image people have for us to have it all figured out before the clock strikes 30, and we are no longer the young ingénue.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
I question whether she was an ingénue at all, but, if she were, she was an ingénue of great and varied experience.
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
“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
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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