Character actor?

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Oh, okay. Like an actor that gets picked for the same roles everytime? Someting like that?

-"Don't come any closer! I'll blow this whole place up!"
-"Go ahead. I don't shop here."

Actually getting cast a lot in the same kind of roles is called TYPECASTING. You can be TYPECAST as a so-called "character actor" or as a so-called "romantic lead." A better definition of character acting is an actor/actress who is good at playing parts that are very different from who they are in life. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with typecasting. HOLLYWOOD really is why actors get typecast - because it's a big business that doesn't want to change proven formulas (same reason why there's so many lame remakes instead of new movies.)

Good point - I personally think "character actor" is a kind of stupid category, and you could definitely argue that all acting is "character acting". But you know how some actors are very talented but seem like they are usually hired to play versions of themselves - like Jennifer Aniston often plays a nice, funny girl - or Hugh Grant gets hired to play an exasperated English guy over and over? Some people think that's a different kind of acting career than say - Anthony Hopkins as a killer in Silence of the Lambs vs. Anthony Hopkins as a butler in Remains of the Day...or David Patrick Kelly as Luther in The Warriors vs. DPK as Jerry Horne in Twin Peaks...you know?

Sometimes typecasting is a director's best friend.