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leading lady

[ lee-ding ]

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noun

an actress who plays the principal female role in a motion picture or play.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of leading lady¹

First recorded in 1870–75

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At 19, she was a Broadway leading lady in "Next to Normal."

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I was in total shock: I’ll never be able to play a leading lady again.

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All while his admittedly gorgeous leading lady plays a cryptic symbol?

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Born in Scunthorpe, she became a leading lady in London's West End in the 1950s, and first appeared opposite Olivier in The Entertainer at the Royal Court in 1957.

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Gilpin, now a friend, “happens to be trapped in the body of this ingenue leading lady, but she is a real pelvic-floor-of-doom theater person,” he adds.

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