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11	->''"I've made a career out of playing blind black men."''
12	-->-- '''Creator/LeVarBurton''' (when asked about this trope), Dragon*Con 2010
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14	You recognize the character immediately as being right off the {{Characters}} list. He hasn't said anything yet, but you know him because he is an example of typecasting. There are a host of ways to be typecast. Whereas stage actors are shuffled around quite a bit, allowing them to play all sorts of roles, it's a different story with movies and television.
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16	This is not entirely the fault of casting directors. When Ed O'Neill left ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' to spread his wings as a dramatic actor, audiences laughed the instant he appeared onscreen in ''Film/TheSpanishPrisoner''. An extreme example of this is IAmNotSpock (and also IAmNotLeonardNimoy).
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18	MetaCasting is playing off this Typecasting to push it into another realm of familiarity.
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20	Administrivia/TropesAreTools. There are some actors whose typical role has become known so well that as soon as you see them in a movie, whatever it is, you know it's going to be awesome/hilarious/full of asskicking/etc. (WebVideo/CinemaSins, for example, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this with the comment whenever he appears in a movie in a normal presence, "Creator/LiamNeeson is not killing anyone in this scene.") In the world of [[EpilepticTrees fan theories]], this practice also has a tendency to make fans believe that those characters played by a typecast actor [[FanonWelding are secretly one and the same]]. On the other hand, some audiences will expect these actors to play specific roles, and the writers risk angering them if they subvert their expectations. Writing the personality of Typecasted characters as a [[TheReveal twist]] is also extremely difficult to do successfully, because chances are that [[CaptainObviousReveal audiences prematurely figure it out]] [[NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize solely based on the actor's filmography]].
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22	When lampshaded in the work itself, this becomes AdamWesting. The opposite is, naturally enough, PlayingAgainstType.
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24	!!Examples:
25	[[index]]
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27	[[AC:[[{{Actors}} Live-action actors]]]]
28	* [[Typecasting/BothGenders Both genders]]
29	* [[{{Typecasting/Actors}} Male actors]]
30	* [[{{Typecasting/Actresses}} Female actors]]
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32	[[AC:[[VoiceActors Voice actors]]]]
33	* [[Typecasting/EnglishVoiceActors English voice actors]]
34	* [[Typecasting/JapaneseVoiceActors Japanese voice actors]]
35	* [[Typecasting/SpanishVoiceActors Spanish voice actors]]
36	* [[Typecasting/OtherVoiceActors Other languages]]
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38	[[/index]]

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