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Compare ShakespeareanActors, LargeHam, ClassicallyTrainedExtra, WagTheDirector. A particularly unsympathetic portrayal might make them NiceCharacterMeanActor. They live in the same world as the PrimaDonnaDirector and CausticCritic. Luvvies are AlwaysCamp, even the women.

The [[TropeNamer Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded use of the word]] is an interview Creator/StephenFry did in ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]'' in [[TheEighties 1988]] and subsequently forgot all about, though the word and the concept are older, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki , it was a phrase popularised by British actor James Villiers.

"Luvvie" is a slang word for actor originating in British theatre, from the tendency of stage actors to call each other "love" and "darling" (apparently because when you're going from job to job it's easier than remembering people's names). The people it refers to tend to be posh and classically trained, and it connotes a certain amount of [[SmallNameBigEgo pomposity]], [[LargeHam effusiveness]], [[RantInducingSlight sensitivity]], and/or [[NostalgiaFilter sentimentality]], with perhaps a dash of [[{{Hypocrite}} self-serving two-facedness]] mixed in depending on how generous you're (not) feeling.

* ''Series/EerieIndiana'': In "Reality Takes a Holiday", the AdamWesting version of Francis Guinan is very much a luvvie. He speaks in an affected Mid-Atlantic accent and continually talks about his experiences on the stage working with the likes of Creator/JohnMalkovich and Creator/DustinHoffman.

* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'''s Drama skill (the skill for lying and detecting lying) talks like a thesp, bitching about other people's performances, [[EveryoneHasStandards as well as your own if it doesn't think your melodrama is funny or interesting enough]]. At higher levels, it will encourage you more and more to act like a stereotypical luvvie ("You should say, '[[Film/TheDresser Five hundred Lears and I can't remember the first line!]]'").

* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'''s Drama Skill (the skill for lying and detecting lying) talks like a thesp, bitching about other people's performances, [[EveryoneHasStandards as well as your own if it doesn't think your melodrama is funny or interesting enough]]. At higher levels, it will encourage you more and more to act like a stereotypical luvvie ("You should say, '[[Music/ManicStreetPreachers Five hundred Lears and I can't remember the first line!]]'").

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* Actors Keanrick and Mossop talk this way in the third ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' series. Both of them are exceedingly pompous, have an inflated sense of their own abilities, and piss off Blackadder so much [[spoiler:that he gets them executed]].

"Luvvie" is a slang word for actor originating in British theatre, from the tendency of stage actors to call each other "love" and "darling" (apparently because when you're going from job to job it's easier than remembering people's names). The people it refers to tend to be posh and classically trained, and it connotes a certain amount of [[SmallNameBigEgo pomposity]], [[LargeHam effusiveness]], [[RantInducingSlight sensitivity]], and/or [[NostalgiaFilter sentimentality]], with perhaps a dash of [[{{Hypocrite}} self-serving two-facedness]] mixed in.

"Luvvie" is a slang word for actor originating in British theatre, from the tendency of stage actors to call each other "love" and "darling" (apparently because when you're going from job to job it's easier than remembering people's names). The people it refers to tend to be posh and classically trained, and it connotes a certain amount of [[SmallNameBigEgo pomposity]], [[LargeHam effusiveness]], [[RantInducingSlight sensitivity]], and/or [[NostalgiaFilter sentimentality]].

* In the animated adaptation of ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'', the demon summoned by the witches is initially a looming, snarling presence -- but when the witches make it clear that he's not frightening them, he drops character and is revealed as the demonic equivalent of this trope.

The [[TropeNamer Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded use of the word]] is an interview Creator/StephenFry did in ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]'' in [[TheEighties 1988]] and subsequently forgot all about, though the word and the concept are older, according to TheOtherWiki , it was a phrase popularised by British actor James Villiers.

The [[TropeNamer Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded use of the word]] is an interview Creator/StephenFry did in ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]'' in [[TheEighties 1988]] and subsequently forgot all about, though the word and the concept are older.

* The GBA localisation of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has Famed Mimic Gogo talk in this style when you face him in battle, droning on about the 'art' of mimicry and yelling at the player to 'stop ''trying'' to mime, and recenter' if you start attacking him.

* In ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' one sketch series follows a pair of luvvies that bad mouth upcoming talent, cry that their lackluster careers are actually by choice and they prefer the intimate relationship of the smaller crowd and detest the impersonal nature of massive venues, they bitch rivals that win awards and they actually dislike each other to boot. The joke is that they're actually footballers (soccer) not actors.