ingenue
ingénue loan-word

They have an ingenue look, but would work on more mature women as well.

An ingenue when it came to entertaining, I needed help.

Then he thought of something: Jenny could be their ingenue!

But what about women who don't want to look like ingenues?

I never was an ingenue; I've always just been a character actor.

The ingenue is also similar to the girl next door archetype.

The hair often falls straight to the shoulders in back for an ingenue effect.

It hadn't hurt to be a pretty young thing who could talk like an ingenue, either.

"I have done a lot of ingenues and a few leading ladies, but this is my first real character part."

Do you think that seven is too young to play ingenue roles?"

It was a collection to be worn by an ingenue, if such a person still exists.

Ingenues, juveniles, and leads can at least look the part.

At age 14 she first appeared on the Broadway stage doing various ingenue parts.

I gave up the ingenue routine and grabbed the file.

He could hide those jaded eyes, and play the ingenue.

The ingenue is often accompanied with a romantic side plot.

But it was in cinema that she found herself cast as the perfect ingenue.

Tragically, our most recent ingenues have not been up to snuff.

I didn't get the part of the young ingenue.

The deeper one gets into "Ingenue," the less familiar the surroundings become.

The ingenue, the straight man, she is lithe and funny in her own right.

Whether this ingenue comes back a star is irrelevant.

"Even at 10 years old I wasn't an ingenue," she says with a laugh.

Through that experience I've felt able to move away from ingenues, to let go and be a fuller artist."

It's fun to play a character who's not a typical ingenue."