Definition of "typecast" [typecast]

• To cast in an acting role akin or natural to one's own personality or fitted to one's physical appearance. (verb-transitive)
• To assign (a performer) repeatedly to the same kind of part. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Being NOT typecast is Adam Baldwin, who's on the new TV series "Chuck," where plays a clean-shaven CIA agent who wears a suit."
• "At a Foundation for Children's Books event this fall, I asked Brian if he ever felt "typecast" because he's become so well known for his animals."
• "Just because those are his most well-known roles, that doesn't mean he's "typecast" in them."