Line #94 Typecasting/Actresses


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4	* Not even out of puberty yet, Creator/MillieBobbyBrown has ''excelled'' at playing {{creepy child}}ren. 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''.
5	* Actresses who star in {{horror}} movies tend to pick up reputations as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_queen "scream queens."]] Some actresses (such as Debbie Rochon and Creator/JamieLeeCurtis) have embraced the title, while others resent it ([[Film/KingKong1933 Fay Wray]] wound up taking her career to England because of it). A full list can be found on Website/TheOtherWiki.
6	* Overweight black actresses (such as [[Creator/{{Monique}} Mo'Nique]] and Music/QueenLatifah) are often typecast as the SassyBlackWoman, or as a [[EthnicMenialLabor Mammy]] type back in the day. Such actresses are often criticized for only choosing stereotypical roles, despite the fact that these roles are often the only ones they can get.
7	** Mo'Nique completely averts this in ''Film/{{Precious}}'', and it could very well launch her career into new heights.
8	** Hattie [=McDaniel=] might as well have made {{Mammy}} her StageName; her screen contract forbade her from losing weight. Criticized by other African-Americans for playing these roles, she said, "I'd rather [[MoneyDearBoy play a maid and make $700 a week]], than be a maid for $7."
9	* Characters played by British actresses Creator/ImeldaStaunton and Pam Ferris are often of the {{Jerkass}} and/or SadistTeacher variety. See ''Film/HarryPotter'' and ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' for examples.
10	* And now we move onto the Deadpan Snarker Section:
11	** Creator/RoseMcGowan is always the deadpan snarker, because that's who she is in real life.
12	** Creator/EmmaStone is always the deadpan snarker in teen comedies or rom-coms who often squints her eyes and mouths her words.
13	** Creator/MilaKunis is always the deadpan snarker in comedies (though not always the same ''type''). Averted with ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'' and ''Film/MaxPayne''.
14	* Blondes carry their own stigma: They can either play [[ReallyGetsAround the Jezebel]], the [[AlphaBitch mean girl]], [[DumbBlonde the bimbo]], or some combination thereof.
15	* Creator/JenniferAniston. Plays the girl next door and... the girl next door. Most of her post-''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' movies are {{Rom Com}}s, except ''Derailed'' (where she has an affair and [[RapeAsDrama is raped]] and {{blackmail}}ed). Other exceptions: ''The Good Girl'', ''Film/MarleyAndMe'' and ''Film/HorribleBosses''.
16	* Devon Aoki is the badass Asian girl.
17	** Also, she doesn't talk as much as she acts.
18	* Creator/AmyAcker tends to play scientists whenever Creator/JossWhedon 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.
19	* When Creator/BeaArthur was cast as Dorothy Zbornak in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', the similarities to ''Series/{{Maude}}'' were noticed immediately and she was asked if she was worried about being typcast. She responded that life was too short to worry about that.
20	** Although, ''The Golden Girls'' almost had this happen three times over. Originally the other two parts were reversed, Betty White was to play the bitchy man-eater Blanche and Rue [=McClanahan=] was to play to cheerful airhead Rose. These lined up pretty well with the actresses previous roles, White's Sue Ann Nivens on ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' and Vivian Harmon of ''Maude.'' When the show was cast this way, Arthur declined, saying she didn't want to do "Maude and Vivian meet Sue Ann." It was only after the parts were switched that she agreed.
21	* Silent movie star Theda Bara was known to play TheVamp, she would be as dramatic as her characters. Sadly she was stuck in the type, despite playing wholesome women as well[[note]] like Juliet and Isabel Carlisle in East Lynne [[/note]]. After ending her contract to Fox she was unable to shake off the Vamp parodying it in 3 silent Comedies. She retired in 1926 just as Sound Films came in.
22	* Creator/MorenaBaccarin's most prominent roles have been oddly specific as "Superhero's Girlfriend." Vanessa, Deadpool's {{Love Interest\|s}} in [[Film/Deadpool2016 the film version]]. Leslie Thompkins, Jim Gordon's Love Interest in ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' (as well as the real-life fiance of Creator/BenMcKenzie). She's also played Talia al-Ghul (Love Interest to Franchise/{{Batman}}) and ComicBook/BlackCanary (Love Interest to ComicBook/GreenArrow) in several Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse productions.
23	* If Creator/AshleyBenson appears in any circle of {{four\|temperament ensemble}}, she will almost always be Sanguine. Or the GeniusDitz.
24	* Angela Bettis' characters are either socially outcast and {{strange\|Girl}} (''Film/{{May}}'', the 2002 remake of ''Film/{{Carrie\|2002}}'') or mentally unhinged (''Film/{{May}}'' again, ''Film/GirlInterrupted'')
25	* Creator/JessicaBiel was worried enough about her typecasting as the "[[GirlNextDoor good girl]]" from ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' (which had cost her the lead role in ''Film/AmericanBeauty'') that she [[PublicExposure posed half-naked]] for ''Gear'' magazine (when she was seventeen!) in order to shake off that image and get out of her contract on the show. It worked.
26	* Nikki Blonsky always seems to get typecast as a fat teenager who's around to prove a point. This may be the main reason why her career never took off despite a lot of hype for her in the beginning.
27	* Characters played by Creator/MischaBarton usually tend to end up in relationships with other girls, at least briefly. The same is sometimes true for her [[Series/TheOC OC]] girlfriend Olivia Wilde.
28	* Creator/ClaudiaBlack seems to show up as capable, confident, and very [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] characters, whether she is there in person or it is just her voice.
29	* 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/AliceInWonderland2010'')
30	* Need someone to play a brash, badass woman? Creator/SandraBullock is your girl.
31	* Italian actress Margherita Buy is almost always typecast as neurotic, stressed, over-worked career women.
32	* Creator/CharismaCarpenter tends to be cast as the toothy and superficial airhead (with examples such as ''[[Series/BuffytheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' and ''Series/VeronicaMars''), though after ''Series/{{Angel}}'' supplied the former with CharacterDevelopment she proved that she could do better. Alas.
33	* Creator/GlennClose doubled down on this one. In the early and mid-1980s, she was nominated for three Oscars playing nurturing, vaguely maternal women (''Film/TheNatural'', ''Film/TheBigChill'' and ''Literature/TheWorldAccordingToGarp''). Then, she took the ''Film/FatalAttraction'' part and [[PlayingAgainstType completely U-turned]], getting another Oscar nom as a murderously unhinged mistress. She couldn't get out of ''that'' stereotype for a while, ultimately playing Cruella de Vil in the live-action ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'', until her recent Oscar nomination for a woman posing as a man.
34	* Creator/CourteneyCox has tended to play uber bitch characters, sometimes with a HiddenHeartOfGold, sometimes without. See: ''Film/{{Scream}}'', ''Dirt'', ''Cougar Town'', ''Tomboy'', and her role in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' as examples. Her most [[{{Series/Friends}} famous role]] was even Flanderised into this.
35	* Creator/JoanCrawford had to suffer greatly in whatever film she starred in. Especially if it was made during the 1930s or 40s.
36	* Creator/MorfyddClark tends to play a lot of characters with BlueBlood in {{Costume Drama}}s taking place either in the 19 century such as ''Literature/MadameBovary'', ''Film/TheManWhoInventedChristmas'', ''Film/ThePersonalHistoryOfDavidCopperfield'' and ''Series/Dracula2020'', or in fantasy settings like ''Film/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies'' and ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''.
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40	* Creator/FeliciaDay has made a living as the soft-spoken, slightly neurotic geek girl (WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog, WebVideo/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}}''. She is since going from neurotic to full-blown mad in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' revival.
41	* If you want a HiddenHeartOfGold or JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Aisha Dee is your girl.
42	* Creator/ZooeyDeschanel seems to either play the DeadpanSnarker or the ManicPixieDreamGirl. Or both. (See ''Failure to Launch''; she stole the movie.) She's the {{Love Interest\|s}} a lot of the time, too.
43	* Loretta Devine is almost always cast as a doting mother/grandmother. And, she is rarely in starring roles.
44	** Except in ''Film/UrbanLegend'' and its sequel ''Film/UrbanLegendsFinalCut''.
45	* If you are looking for someone to play a beautiful woman that should not be trusted, look no further than Creator/NatalieDormer.
46	* Need a {{shrinking violet}}? This was Lesley-Anne Down's stock and trade during the seventies, eighties, ''and'' nineties. She deserves some kind of lifetime achievement award for her facial tics, lip-bitings, and eye-flutterings. Oddly, she also has a history of playing mothers beginning way back in 1994 with ''Munchie Strikes Back'' and continuing through ''Series/SunsetBeach'' (got knocked up by her own daughter's boyfriend) and ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'' (an extremely busy cougar).
47	-->'''[[http://dlisted.com/2009/08/03/hot-slut-of-the-week-lesley-anne-down/ Michael K.]]''': Lesley plays Jack Wagner's mom on the show even though she’s only 5 years older than his ass! Most actresses would shank a bitch over that, but Lesley is a true professional and thespian! ...On today’s episode, Jackie got attacked by a cougar on a photo shoot! A real-life cougar, not the kind that slobbers over young peen.
48	* Creator/ElizaDushku is a sexy, morally unclear tough cookie in practically everything. Even if she's not an ActionGirl, she'll still rise to the occasion and beat somebody's ass. ''(Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' only [[StarDerailingRole sealed the deal]] further.) Harrier jets may be involved.
49	* Jayne Eastwood is known for playing teacher, grandparent and parent figures on children's TV shows like ''[[Literature/RamonaQuimby Ramona]]'', the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'', ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'', ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/JojosCircus [=JoJo=]'s Circus]]''.
50	* Creator/AnnaFaris is ''not'' always TheBrainlessBeauty, but she clearly has no problem with it.
51	* For a girl who wasn't out of her teens, Creator/JodelleFerland sure has played a lot of {{creepy child}}ren. See: Bree Tanner in ''[[Film/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]'', Sharon/Alessa in ''Film/SilentHill'', Lilith in ''Film/{{Case 3}}9'', Jenny in ''Film/TheTallMan'', Patience Buckner in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', and a young Carrie White in the 2002 version of ''Film/{{Carrie\|2002}}''.
52	-->"They like to cast me for scary roles. I think it`s because they want you to be scared, but also to like the little girl."
53	* After her roles in ''Series/ThirtyRock'' and ''Baby Mama'', Creator/TinaFey is practically angling to have herself typecast as neurotic career women with droll personalities. That, or as [[CelebrityResemblance Sarah Palin]].
54	* Creator/MeganFox prior to Transformers often played the AlphaBitch. She's ''slowly'' moving out of this, though.
55	* Creator/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 all at the same time.
56	--> [[http://xkcd.com/579/ "I eat my body weight in food every 31 days. That's slightly faster than the human average."]]
57	* Characters played by Creator/HeatherGraham seem to tend to end up having a lot of sex for one reason or another.
58	** It's probably because [[BestKnownForTheFanservice she's willing to get naked on camera]]. [[MsFanservice Constantly]].
59	** 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: Creator/AnneHathaway, Creator/KateWinslet, Creator/JenniferConnelly, Creator/EvaGreen, Creator/SalmaHayek. Heck, Creator/HelenMirren's career started this way, and some of her later roles [[LampshadeHanging lampshade it]] tongue in cheek.
60	* Creator/AlysonHannigan played the sweet, shy Willow before her role in ''Film/AmericanPie'' where she was the sweet, shy Michelle, who turned out to not only be a CovertPervert but a {{Dominatrix}} as well. These character traits would [[CharacterDevelopment cross over]] into Buffy and later on her role on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.
61	* Despite having proven herself a capable performer in such films as ''Film/TasteTheBloodOfDracula'' and ''Film/TheBloodOnSatansClaw'', most of Creator/LindaHayden's film roles unfortunately ended up being in sexploitation films, including the first and last entries in the ''Film/ConfessionsOfASeries''.
62	* Creator/KatherineHeigl usually plays a high maintenance woman who, while successful in her career, has a poor love life.
63	* Creator/LilyJames is typically cast as a fresh-faced EnglishRose or TheIngenue in period piece dramas.
64	* Ever since ''Film/TheFifthElement'' and especially ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'', Creator/MillaJovovich has played her fair share of {{Action Girl}}s. If not an action girl, she often plays the seductress who gets naked a lot.
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68	* Creator/DeborahKerr's career was mostly her playing the English Rose ProperLady in lavish costume dramas - something which ''From Here To Eternity'' [[note]] Where she played a FakeAmerican unhappy wife who cheats on her husband with a Pearl Harbour soldier [[/note]] was an attempt to break out of. She also played a lot of governesses - ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', ''The Chalk Garden'', ''Film/TheInnocents''.
69	* Period Movie: A type of film which features Creator/KeiraKnightley wearing GorgeousPeriodDress and [[MsFanservice occasionally nude]] (usually topless). She's the plucky main character and is most likely a little ahead of her time. She chose to tweak it slightly when ''Film/{{Atonement}}'' came around as she was approached to play the adult Briony, but chose to play Cecilia instead as she'd "had enough of coming-of-age ladies".
70	** Keira Knightley is giving Kate Winslet her a run for her money through ''Film/PrincessOfThieves'', ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005'', ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''Film/{{Atonement}}'', ''Film/KingArthur2004'', ''Silk'', ''Film/TheDuchess'' and ''Film/AnnaKarenina''. Corset Keira anyone?
71	** Keira's non-period movies typically have her as a brash JerkWithAHeartOfGold where her love interest is the one that discovers the heart of gold. ''Film/BendItLikeBeckham'', ''Film/TheHole'', ''Film/{{Domino\|2005}}'' and ''Film/TheJacket'' are examples.
72	* Creator/ChiakiKuriyama plays CuteAndPsycho (such as ''Film/KillBill'', ''Film/BattleRoyale'', or ''{{Film/Oyayubihime}}'') quite well and she's also a ChronicallyKilledActor (The first two films mentioned, ''Film/TheGreatYokaiWar'', among others). In her own words she is often seen as "the scary one".
73	* Creator/JenniferLawrence often plays a troubled protagonist who spends half the film having her personal problems haunt her.
74	** Having a deceased loved one is also a common element.
75	* If Creator/BlakeLively is part of any circle of {{four\|temperament ensemble}}, she will almost always be Sanguine.
76	* Creator/MyrnaLoy was a classic example; she spent her early career stuck playing evil foreign [[TheVamp vamps]], and then when she [[Film/TheThinMan finally managed]] to get more high-profile parts, she became best known for playing wholesome mother-type roles.
77	* Remember how fiesty and colourful Amy Madigan was as the wife in ''Film/FieldOfDreams''? Well she's since become typecast as a joyless crone who's probably insane. The mind boggles.
78	** Because she [[Series/{{Carnivale}} does "batshit crazy"]] [[Series/CriminalMinds really well]].
79	* Due to her dwarfism, most of Creator/PattyMaloney's live-action roles were in comedy and speculative fiction, such as ''Series/FarOutSpaceNuts'', ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'', ''Film/TheIcePirates'' and the 1991 film of ''Film/TheAddamsFamily''.
80	* Need a runaway, drug addict, hooker, hellraiser, or [[BrokenBird otherwise troubled young woman?]] Taryn Manning’s your gal.
81	* Mercedes Masohn is Swedish yet has played Latinas on ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}, Series/TheFinder, Common Law,'' and ''Series/NCISLosAngeles''.
82	* Whenever Creator/MarleeMatlin is on screen, the show centers around being deaf. Same goes for Creator/ShoshannahStern.
83	** Marlee's role on ''Series/TheWestWing'' was mostly unrelated to being deaf (ditto for ''Series/TheMagicians''). Sometimes (see also her roles in ''Walker'' [ever wanted to know the American sign language gesture for "Go fuck a pig!"?], ''The Linguini Incident'' and ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'').
84	* Creator/JodhiMay 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), ''Film/SisterMySister'' (WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds) or the 1999 BBC adaptation of ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'' (either a HauntedHeroine or an UnreliableNarrator, but still a 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.
85	* Creator/SierraMcCormick is typically cast as one of various types of strange girl, most frequently the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (''Series/ANTFarm'') and CreepyChild (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', ''Series/{{Jessie}}'').
86	* Despite not even being 21 yet, Music/JennetteMccurdy of ''Series/ICarly'' fame has already been typecast to several AlphaBitch characters as well as the occasionally sociopathic Sam Puckett.
87	* Despite being Irish in real life, Creator/KatieMcGrath usually plays flighty, occasionally evil [[FakeBrit British]] aristocratic beauties.
88	* Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz is the precocious strange girl who is almost always WiseBeyondHerYears (''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'', ''Film/{{Hugo}}''), sometimes engages in TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior (''Film/KickAss'', ''Hick''), and is often somehow connected to the supernatural (''Film/LetMeIn'', ''Film/DarkShadows'', the 2013 ''Film/{{Carrie\|2013}}'' and Emily the Strange adaptations).
89	* Cathy Moriarty was an unknown before her splash as [[Film/RagingBull Vicki LaMotta]], and looked to be Hollywood's newest sexpot. One nasty car wreck and 8 million cigarettes later, [[TheBaroness and, well...]] While by no means unattractive today, most of her credits have been black comedies or horror flicks.
90	* Actress Creator/LupeOntiveros estimated that she'd played a maid between 150 and 300 times on screen.
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94	* Creator/SarahJessicaParker tended to play [[BrainlessBeauty sexy airheads]] in her pre- ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' days (''Film/LAStory'', ''Film/HocusPocus'', ''Film/MarsAttacks''). ''After'' she did ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' she has mostly played brainy but uptight or neurotic romantic heroines (''Film/TheFamilyStone'', ''Smart People''.)
95	* Creator/LanaParrilla's two biggest roles (in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' and ''Series/WhyWomenKill'') are as a female antagonist known for being both cruel and beautiful who later has a change of heart and learns the error of her ways; plus both characters' names start with "R".
96	* Joan Plowright is the ultimate Sweet Old English Lady, except for ''Film/BringingDownTheHouse'' where she plays a racially-ignorant GrandeDame who gets stoned and becomes a CoolOldLady.
97	* Creator/CCHPounder usually plays some sort of AffablyEvil authority figure. This even extends to animated works: she was Amanda Waller on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.
98	** Oddly averted in her breakout role, ''Film/BagdadCafe'', where she is in charge of delivering the WhoopiEpiphanySpeech.
99	** Now subverted with ''Series/Warehouse13'': Mrs. Frederic is definitely an authority figure, but rather than being AffablyEvil, she is a gruff, kind of creepy [[DaChief Chief]] who nevertheless ''not'' evil (so far).
100	* Keri Lynn Pratt can never be cast as anything but a variation of TheDitz, due to her comically squeaky voice. A ditzy intern on ''Series/BrothersAndSisters'', ditzy girlfriend Missy on ''Series/JackAndBobby'', then a ditzy sorority girl in ''Series/VeronicaMars'' [[spoiler:albeit a manipulative, lying, blackmailing one]]. With a voice like that, it seems like there's no way for anyone to take her seriously.
101	* Creator/KellyPreston seemed 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'').
102	* Creator/LucyPunch (real name) gets regular work as the boozing, superficial floozy. She's been trying to break into Hollywood of late, resulting in a few serious roles--or, at times, even sluttier ones (''Film/DinnerForSchmucks'').
103	* Given the number of times Creator/HaydenPanettiere and Creator/ChristinaMilian have played cheerleaders, Creator/TheCW missed a trick by not getting one or the other or both to make a guest appearance on ''Series/{{Hellcats}}''.
104	* Creator/LinneaQuigley was always the girl in horror movies who gets naked.
105	* 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/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' and Nyamo in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', and you can occasionally find her voicing non-type background characters, with her voice lowered several octaves.
106	* Creator/KrystenRitter usually plays bitchy characters with [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a heart of gold]]. Or the Dark of LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine.
107	* 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.
108	* Catalina Saavedra originally refused (angrily) the role of Raquel in ''Film/TheMaid'' (2009 Chilean film) because she had already played too many maids.
109	* Creator/KateeSackhoff, ever since her StarMakingRole as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' has become stuck with "Starbuck-lite" roles: tough, no-nonsense {{Action Girl}}s in a SpaceOpera or at least sci-fi oriented work, often with a hidden emotionally vulnerable side.
110	* Marianne Sägebrecht has made a career of being a BigBeautifulWoman romantic lead, with her having a nude scene in most of her roles.
111	* Luciana Salazar as "eye candy on rehashed sequel of an old comedy franchise/movie based on cartoon".
112	* For a hot minute in the 1980s, Mia Sara was your go-to gal if you needed a SpiritedYoungLady.
113	* Ever since ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', Creator/BrendaSong has been typecast as the AsianAirhead in Creator/{{Disney}} productions. Ironically, her first major role was in a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} show, ''Series/OneHundredDeedsForEddieMcdowd'', as an ''[[AsianAndNerdy egghead]]'' -- a retroactive PlayingAgainstType. Outside of Disney, she still occasionally gets typecast as an AsianAirhead. It seems she's just good at ''really'' crazy comedy.
114	* Brooke Sorenson seems to always play {{Alpha Bitch}}es.
115	* Creator/OctaviaSpencer's three [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-nominated roles have been black women working under white people in [[TheSixties 1960s America]]: Minny Jackson in ''Film/TheHelp'', Dorothy Vaughan in ''Film/HiddenFigures'', and Zelda Fuller in ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''. Outside of those, she's almost always the TokenBlackFriend.
116	%% * If Creator/JordinSparks is part of a FiveManBand, she's TheBigGuy.
117	* Creator/TildaSwinton as the androgynous IceQueen. ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' completely turns it around with her as a ShrinkingViolet who is also a RomanticFalseLead.
118	** In her first starring role as the titular hero/ine of ''Film/{{Orlando}}'', she's a WideEyedIdealist GenderBender who becomes a CoolOldLady whose ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty. In ''Film/MichaelClayton'' she's a DirtyCoward PunchClockVillain.
119	* Although her most popular role was as Elliot's mom in ''[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'', the rest of Creator/DeeWallace's acting career seems to subsist of that of the victim in various horror films, with ''Film/TheHowling'', ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977'', ''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)]].
120	* A number of girls who have appeared in Magazine/PlayBoy or other "adult" media found regular employment as a FanserviceExtra in sex comedies or horror films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.
121	* Creator/StacieLeahRippy manages to avert this trope, although she ''is'' a character actor. However, she's mainly relegated to background work (sadly). [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Especially given her British fandom]].
122	* Icy blondes? The example to beat is Ally Walker and her giant hair. Best known as crooked ATF Agent June Stahl on ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', she has also played, in order: a {{gold digger}} client on ''Series/LALaw'', a {{mean boss}} on ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', a shrill fiancee in ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'' ("You one-balled bastard!"), and a racist housewife on ''Series/LawAndOrder''. Admittedly, her long filmography features a couple of benign characters, e.g. the heroine in ''Series/{{Profiler}}'' and the mom in ''{{Film/Kazaam}}''.
123	* Holland Taylor as the EvilMatriarch, usually a [[RichBitch rich]] and [[PlayedForLaughs comedic]] one.
124	* Creator/ShirleyTemple was faced with this as she grew up and took on more mature roles as a teenager. Her acting career declined mostly as people came to associate her more as a cherubic little girl than a saddle shoe-wearing bobby-soxer, and she couldn't shake off her reputation as a child star even well into her political and later diplomatic career, with sketch comedies such as ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7eGdxfZZ0 mocking her bid for Congress]], ''Film/StandUpAndCheer'' costume and all. She is however fine with the legacy she left as a child actress, though.
125	* Creator/JessicaWalter has also fallen victim to this ever since ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' started.
126	* Creator/JulieWalters is always the nanny or otherwise responsible for a [[Film/HarryPotter large group of kids]].
127	** Subverted in ''Film/MammaMia'', although it could be taken that in that film she is the nanny for the other two girls.
128	** If you ever saw ''Stepping Out.''
129	* Creator/BettyWhite tended to get typecast in a role and then subverted the typecasting in her next big role. Her role on the ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' 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 ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' rather than the character of Blanche she was offered. She then subverted that typecasting by playing the character of Betty White on ''Series/UglyBetty'' as a MagnificentBastard who gets the better of the show's antagonist.
130	* Kathleen Wilhoite has a very strange and idiosyncratic typecasting. If you've seen her on TV and recognize her, she's usually playing an [[Series/WithoutATrace unstable]], [[Series/GilmoreGirls abusive/neglectful]] [[{{Series/ER}} mother]] [[Series/CriminalMinds who]] [[Series/LawAndOrderSVU often]] struggles with substance use and has terrible taste in men. Her two most well-known recurring acting roles (that aren't voice-over work) are basically playing the [[{{Series/ER}} same]] [[Series/GilmoreGirls character.]]
131	* With regards to Creator/KateWinslet, she did so many roles in [[CostumeDrama Costume Dramas]] in the [[TheNineties 1990s]] that some people jokingly nicknamed her "Corset Kate". See ''Film/AKidInKingArthursCourt'', ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Jude'', ''Hamlet'', ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', and ''Film/{{Quills}}''.
132	* Anna May Wong was type-cast as a DragonLady most of the time. Being an Asian-American actress in the 1920s and 1930s, there wasn't much else she was ''allowed'' to do. She wanted to play as the leading lady in ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'' however UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode prevented her (they instead gave her role to a white woman in {{yellowface}} due to the leading male being white). Anna May Wong was offered to play the villain but turned it down due to taking offense at the idea she would play the bad guy in a film about Chinese people, where every major Chinese character was played in yellowface.
133	* When Zhang Ziyi appears on the screen, you start to count down to the beginning of some serious WaifFu.
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