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• n  an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl
• n  an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage)
• n  the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play

• They were directed by men who could fancy themselves as artists, and starred off-Broadway actors as well as the occasional gifted ingenue like Linda Lovelace, star of the movie .
• As the older performer, played unforgettably by Bette Davis, begins to realize what's up that the ingenue's real goal is to supplant her on the stage she issues a raspy .
• They were directed by men who could fancy themselves as artists, and starred off-Broadway actors as well as the occasional gifted ingenue like Linda Lovelace, star of the movie .

News & Articles

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• Love-Love! Princess-in-Law Pippa Is Vanity Fair's New Tennis Writer
  Like any ingenue to the magazine world, Pippa Middleton has glided up the rungs of the media ladder—straight from food columnist for a grocery store leaflet to Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair —in one easy step. Read more...        
  June 5, 2013 - Gawker

Quotes

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• Maria Bello in AZ Central.com
  Rachel is such a beautiful and brilliant ingenue in those (previous two) films, and I knew I could never fill her shoes,Bello says. "So we decided to make a new pair of shoes."
• Jim Sheridan in Sydney Morning Herald
  Natalie is so pretty and so known as an ingenue that you're thinking: 'Oh my god, Natalie Portman as a mother,'Sheridan says.
• Rose Byrne in Courier Mail
  It was a departure in a lot of ways,Byrne says of the role. "I often play the younger girl or the ingenue, so it was good to play a woman coming into her own. I love the aspect of the femme fatale and I loved that she was this impeccable,...