Typecasting (acting)

Typecasting is the process by which an actor is strongly identified with a role or genre. There have been instances in which an actor has been so strongly identified with a role as to make it impossible for him or her to find work portraying other characters. Often a typecast actor may attempt to escape this fate by choosing a role particularly distinct from the ones they had been typecast as. Typecasting often occurs to actors with leading roles in long-running TV series.

A list of some actors who have been typecast:

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Jason Alexander as George Costanza
Julie Andrews in sweet roles, such as the ones she played in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music
Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver
Bob Denver as Gilligan
Annette Funicello
Mark Hamill - villain roles in animation
Jonathan Harris in likeable villain roles, after Lost in Space
Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger
George Reeves as Superman
William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
Adam West as The Batman

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Typecasting is also a term used in computer programming.

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