She combined the voice of an ingenue with the spirit of a flapper. Nowadays there is a French expression "fleur bleue" describing a sensitive dreamer and ingenue person. She had appeared as an ingenue in short-subject comedies. Theatrically, Bianca is the "ingenue" in "Shrew" and the female lead in the play's subplot. I never was an ingenue; I've always just been a character actor. Karen Black, originally cast as the ingenue, was replaced out of town. She has a striking appearance and represents a welcome departure from the standard Hollywood ingenue. "I started off as an ingenue," recalled Wagner. Another "Pitchfork" writer described the error as "perpetuating the male-led ingenue myth". Katherina is the older daughter of Baptista Minola and the sister of Bianca, the "ingenue". It was to be Mrs. Gilbert's farewell tour, with Marie playing Dora, the ingenue. At 17, she returned to the stage and appeared as the ingenue in "Daisy Mayme". Her employers had used Mack as an ingenue. In 1898, Crews performed in San Francisco as an ingenue with the Alcazar Stock Company. In 2014, Wiley was named "Out" magazine's Ingenue of the Year.