Words are used to find the actors we see onscreen.

Can you guess what these actors look like?

Click on their adjectives to learn more.

Character descriptions are written by the people who cast, and distributed by agents to actors. By scraping an actors' emails, repeated adjectives reveal how the actor is typecast and how archetypal characters end up on our screens. Here are seven actors from London, New York and Los Angeles, their castings and how they feel about them.