title character
noun
: the character in a book for which the book is named
the title character of the book Tom Sawyer
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The film is set, pointedly, at a significant historical moment—April, 1968, just a month before the great wave of generational protests that transformed France—and at a similarly significant time in the life of its title character, Michèle (Circé Lethem).
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
In her latest project titled The Girlfriend, Cooke plays the title character, Cherry Laine, a young professional who struggles to gain the trust of her new boyfriend’s somewhat overbearing mother, Laura Sanderson, a wealthy art gallery owner, played by Robin Wright.
—Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Toni Collette, whose breakthrough role was the socially awkward title character in 1994’s Muriel’s Wedding, has never shied away from playing women who downplay their attractiveness.
—Gregg Kilday, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
The same words apply to the title character at the film‘s center, the inscrutable and seemingly unscrupulous Hedda Gabler (a magnetic Tessa Thompson), here yanked firmly from the late 20th century setting of Henrik Ibsen’s iconic play into the ’50s, and not missing a single trick along the way.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
In her latest project titled The Girlfriend, Cooke plays the title character, Cherry Laine, a young professional who struggles to gain the trust of her new boyfriend’s somewhat overbearing mother, Laura Sanderson, a wealthy art gallery owner, played by Robin Wright.
—Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Toni Collette, whose breakthrough role was the socially awkward title character in 1994’s Muriel’s Wedding, has never shied away from playing women who downplay their attractiveness.
—Gregg Kilday, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
The same words apply to the title character at the film‘s center, the inscrutable and seemingly unscrupulous Hedda Gabler (a magnetic Tessa Thompson), here yanked firmly from the late 20th century setting of Henrik Ibsen’s iconic play into the ’50s, and not missing a single trick along the way.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Title character.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/title%20character. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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