History Typecasting / Actresses

* Despite not even being 21 yet, Music/JennetteMccurdy of ''Series/ICarly'' fame has already been typecast to MeanCharacterNiceActor type roles, getting several AlphaBitch characters as well as the occasionally sociopathic Sam Puckett.

** In her first starring role as the titular hero/ine of ''Film/{{Orlando}}'', she's an {{Adorkable}} WideEyedIdealist GenderBender who becomes a CoolOldLady with PerpetualYouth. In ''Film/MichaelClayton'' she's a DirtyCoward PunchClockVillain.

* Kelly Preston seems to usually play the doting mother in family films (e.g. ''Film/JackFrost1998'', ''What a Girl Wants'', ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', ''Old Dogs'', and ''The Last Song'').
* Creator/MonicaRial is almost always found voicing an peppy, innocent schoolgirl, mostly because the voice she almost always uses is in fact her real, natural voice. There are exceptions such as when she voiced Lyra in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' and Nyamo in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', and you can occasionally find her voicing non-type background characters, with her voice lowered several octaves.
* Creator/MichelleRodriguez is almost invariably a [[SpicyLatina sexy]], [[SleevesAreForWimps tank-top-wearing]] badass Latina ActionGirl who [[VasquezAlwaysDies dies a heroic death]]. [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-6301-michelle-rodriguez/ Cracked.com has the details]]. She's perfectly content with it by the way, as she prefers playing this type of character.
* And while we're at it, we also have Creator/AngelinaJolie as the other badass tough girl who doesn't die as often, though she did kill herself in ''Film/{{Wanted}}''.

* Given the number of times Creator/HaydenPanettiere and Creator/ChristinaMilian have played TheCheerleader, Creator/TheCW missed a trick by not getting one or the other or both to make a guest appearance on ''Series/{{Hellcats}}''.
* Linnea Quigley was always the girl in horror movies who gets naked.
* Krysten Ritter usually plays bitchy characters with [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a heart of gold]]. Or the Dark of LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine.

* Jodhi May in the first decade of her career tended to be cast as a massive [[TheWoobie Woobie]], whether in ''A World Apart'' (borderline JerkassWoobie, although she gets a HeelRealization), ''Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans'' (StoicWoobie), ''Sister My Sister'' (WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds) or the 1999 BBC adaptation of ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'' (HauntedHeroine/UnreliableNarrator Woobie). She spent much of the following few years concentrating on theatre and then showed up in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' as creepy, [[EvilLaugh evilly-laughing]] HotWitch and HermitGuru Maggy the Frog, so, typecasting averted there.

* Even younger than Jodelle, Creator/MillieBrown has ''excelled'' at playing the {{creepy child}}. Roles include: a sociopath who killed her mom on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', the [[DemonicPossession possessed]] host of an immortal serial killer on ''Series/{{Intruders}}'', and a girl with telekinetic powers who was raised in a lab and has a propensity for [[KubrickStare Kubrick staring]] on ''Series/StrangerThings''.

* A number of girls who have appeared in PlayBoy or other "adult" media found regular employment as a FanserviceExtra in sex comedies or horror films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.

* Amy Acker tends to play scientists whenever Joss Whedon casts her - ''Series/{{Angel}}'', ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', with the exception of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', where she played a musician and had the show lasted long enough for her to appear, would have played an actor in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' When she was cast in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', she played a computer hacker, which is somewhat simpler. Her characters also tend to be a bit on the crazy side.

** Let's be honest though, this happens to most attractive young actresses who are both really talented ''and'' willing to get naked on camera. See also: Anne Hathaway, Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, Eva Green, Salma Hayek. Heck, HelenMirren's career started this way, and some of her later roles [[LampshadeHanging lampshade it]] tongue in cheek.

* The example to beat for EvilBlonde would have to be Ally Walker and her giant hair. She played the nefarious DEA Agent June Stahl on ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', a racist housewife on ''Series/LawAndOrder'', a shrill fiancee in ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'' ("You one-balled bastard!"), a {{gold digger}} on ''Series/LALaw'', a {{mean boss}} on ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', and many others. Admittedly, her long filmography features a couple of benign characters, as well (e.g. ''Series/{{Profiler}}'').

* Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter used to be TheIngenue. Since the late nineties, however, she's typically been a darkly funny nutcase, often with a dishevelled look (''Film/FightClub'', ''Film/HarryPotter'', ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', ''Film/LesMiserables2012''), and when not, she is virtually ''always'' in a less-than-glamorous/villainous role (''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', ''Film/AliceInWonderland'')

* Although her most popular role was as Elliot's mom in ''[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'', the rest of Dee Wallace's acting career seems to subsist of that of the victim in various horror films, with ''Film/TheHowling'', ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes'', ''Film/{{Cujo}}'' and the remake of ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' being amoung the most popular. Subverted in ''Film/TheFrighteners'', where she is portrayed as the victim only to [[spoiler: change gears halfway through the film to become the villain)]].

* Jessica Biel was worried enough about her typecasting as the "[[GirlNextDoor good girl]]" from ''[[SeventhHeaven 7th Heaven]]'' (which had cost her the lead role in ''Film/AmericanBeauty'') that she [[PublicExposure posed half-naked]] for ''Gear'' magazine (when she [[JailBait was seventeen!]]) in order to shake off that image and get out of her contract on the show. It worked.

** Keira's non-period movies typically have her as a brash BitchWithAHeartOfGold where her love interest is the one that discovers the heart of gold. ''BendItLikeBeckham'', ''Film/TheHole'', ''Domino'' and ''Film/TheJacket'' are examples.

* Creator/BettyWhite tends to get typecast in a role and then subverts the typecasting in her next big role. Her role on the ''MaryTylerMooreShow'' was a subversion of her earlier typecasting as a sweet, motherly type. In order to avoid the resulting typecasting as a bitchy, man-hungry character she chose to play the Ditz Rose on ''GoldenGirls'' rather than the character of Blanche she was offered. She then subverts that typecasting by playing the character of Betty White on ''UglyBetty'' as a MagnificentBastard who gets the better of the show's antagonist.

* Need a runaway, drug addict, hooker, hellraiser, female prisoner, or [[BrokenBird otherwise troubled young woman?]] Taryn Manning’s your gal.

* Need a runaway, drug addict, hooker, hellraiser, or [[BrokenBird otherwise troubled young woman?]] Creator/TarynManning’s your gal.

* Although her most popular role was as Elliot's mom in ''[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'', the rest of Dee Wallace's acting career seems to subsist of that of the victim in various horror films, with ''TheHowling'', ''TheHillsHaveEyes'', ''Film/{{Cujo}}'' and the remake of ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' being amoung the most popular.
** Subverted in ''Film/TheFrighteners'', where she is portrayed as the victim only to [[spoiler: change gears halfway through the film to become the villain)]].
* Kelly Preston seems to usually play the doting mother in family films (e.g. ''Film/JackFrost1998'', ''What a Girl Wants'', ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', ''Film/SkyHigh'', ''Old Dogs'', and ''The Last Song'').

* MeganFox prior to Transformers often played the AlphaBitch. She's ''slowly'' moving out of this, though.
* SummerGlau tends to be cast as [[{{Moe}} adorable]], [[AxCrazy slightly]] [[CloudCuckoolander unhinged]] [[TheOphelia characters]] who either [[WaifFu kick ass]] or [[TheWoobie induce powerful sympathy]] -- sometimes at the same time.

* Amy Acker tends to play scientists whenever Joss Whedon casts her - ''Series/{{Angel}}'', ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''.

* Creator/FeliciaDay has made a living as the soft-spoken, slightly neurotic geek girl (WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog, TheGuild, her part on ''Series/{{Eureka}})''. Many fans didn't even recognise her when she played a bitter ActionSurvivor in a couple of episode of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''.

* Creator/MonicaRial is almost always found voicing an peppy, innocent schoolgirl, mostly because the voice she almost always uses is in fact her real, natural voice. There are exceptions such as when she voiced Lyra in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', and you can occasionally find her voicing non-type background characters, with her voice lowered several octaves.

* Courtney Cox has tended to play uber bitch characters, sometimes with a HiddenHeartOfGold, sometimes without. See: ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'', ''Dirt'', ''Cougar Town'', ''Tomboy'', and her role in ''{{Scrubs}}'' as examples. Her most [[{{Series/Friends}} famous role]] was even Flanderised into this.

* The example to beat for EvilBlonde would have to be Ally Walker and her giant hair. She played the nefarious DEA Agent June Stahl on ''SonsOfAnarchy'', a racist housewife on ''LawAndOrder'', a shrill fiancee in ''WhileYouWereSleeping'' ("You one-balled bastard!"), a {{gold digger}} on ''LALaw'', a {{mean boss}} on ''TalesFromTheCrypt'', and many others. Admittedly, her long filmography features a couple of benign characters, as well (e.g. ''Profiler'').

** Rose McGowan is always the deadpan snarker, because that's who she is in real life.

* Blondes carry their own stigma: they can either play [[ReallyGetsAround the Jezebel]], the [[AlphaBitch mean girl]], [[DumbBlonde the bimbo]], or some combination thereof.

* FeliciaDay has made a living as the soft-spoken, slightly neurotic geek girl (WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog, TheGuild, her part on Series/{{Eureka}}). Many fans didn't even recognise her when she played a bitter ActionSurvivor in a couple of episode of ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}''

* Creator/ElizaDushku is a sexy morally unclear tough cookie in practically everything. Even if she's not an ActionGirl, she'll still rise to occasion and beat somebody's ass. ''(Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' only [[StarDerailingRole sealed the deal]] further.) Harrier jets may be involved.

* JenniferLawrence often plays a troubled protagonist who spends half the film having her personal problems haunt her.

* Mercedes Masohn is Swedish yet has played Latinas on ''Castle, TheFinder, Common Law,'' and ''NCISLosAngeles''.

** Marlee's role on ''TheWestWing'' was mostly unrelated to being deaf. Sometimes (see also her roles in ''Walker'' (ever wanted to know the sign language for "Go fuck a pig!"?), ''The Linguini Incident'' and ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'').

* Despite being Irish in real life KatieMcGrath usually plays flighty, occasionally evil [[FakeBrit British]] aristocratic beauties.