What is typecast?

  • (verb): Cast repeatedly in the same kind of role.
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on typecast:

Typecasting (acting) - With Character Actors - Star Trek
... The show so typecast the actors, however—as early as March 1970, Nichelle Nichols complained of Star Trek having "defined so narrowly as an actress"—that only Shatner and Nimoy continued working ... “ If what happened to the first cast is called being typecast, then I want to be typecast ... made six movies! ” —Michael Dorn, 1991 The Next Generation actors also become typecast ...
Michelle Rodriguez - Career - Typecast
... and in fact, is somewhat responsible for it Oh baby, I was typecast the minute I did a film called Girlfight years ago ... it just has to do with… you allow yourself to be typecast ... If I decided I didn't want to be typecast tomorrow I'd just go do an indie film where I play some poor girl who goes through some excruciating ...
Typecast (horse) - Racing Career
... A late developer, Typecast began to show contending form in 1971 at age five when she ran second in both the Beverly Hills and Ramona Handicaps and won the Las Palmas Handicap ... However, Typecast had stiff competition that year in California's filly ranks from the 1971 U.S ... With a $250,000 winner-take-all purse at stake, 53,575 spectators watched Typecast and Bill Shoemaker put on a thrilling battle that saw Convenience and Jerry Lambert win by a ...
Typecasting (blogging) - Construction
... Lastly, many people that typecast do so in order to preserve typewriting as a means of creating texts, a means of remembering a vanishing skill or as a form of manual communication ... Typecast blogs may be posted on individual domains, typecast blogs on blogging services such as Blogger that were designed primarily for electronically entered text content, and sketchblogs or image specific ...
Dynamic Cast
... is a part of the run-time type information (RTTI) system that performs a typecast ... Unlike an ordinary C-style typecast, a type safety check is performed at runtime, and if the types are not compatible, an exception will be thrown (when dealing with references) or a null pointer will be returned ... regard, dynamic_cast behaves like a Java typecast ...

More definitions of "typecast":

  • (verb): Identify as belonging to a certain type.
    Synonyms: type