What is "typecasting"

vb. (present participle of typecast English)

In television, film, and theatre, typecasting is the process by which a particular actor becomes strongly identified with a specific character; one or more particular roles; or, characters having the same traits or coming from the same social or ethnic groups. There have been instances in which an actor has been so strongly identified with a role as to make it difficult for him or her to find work playing other characters.

Alternatively, a director may choose to cast an actor "against type" (i.e., in a role that would be unusual for that actor, to create a dramatic or comedic effect).

Typecasting also occurs in other performing arts. An opera singer who has a great deal of success in one role, such as Denyce Graves as Carmen, may become typecast in that role.

Typecast or typecasting may mean:

• Typecasting (acting), the process by which an actor is strongly identified with a specific character, role, or trait
• Type casting (computer programming), the act or result of changing an entity of one data type into another
• Typecasting (blogging), a form of blogging in which text is composed on a typewriter, then scanned and uploaded to a blog
• Type casting (typography), a technique for casting individual letters for use in printing presses
• Typecast (band), Filipino band
• Typecast (horse), American racehorse

A typecast (blogging) (a.k.a. typecasting or typecasting blog) is a form of blogging by media type and publishing in the format of a blog, but differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on text created with a typewriter and then scanned rather than text entered directly into a computer. Typecasting (the action of posting scanned typewritten images to a typecasting blog) is still a relatively rare form of a media type blog similar to vblog and photoblogs.