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Originally Posted by BWinmill
If you can play the role and you fit the appearance of the role, should age even be a consideration? Clearly a 70 year old actress is going to have a tough time looking like a 7 year old character, but that's an extreme case. But what of a 40 year old actress playing a 30 year old character? That should be doable, yet hiring someone based upon arbitrary range of ages (say 25 to 35) and that actress is out of the running. I'm not sure how casting is done, but I could quite easily imagine someone being left out of the running based upon a database query simply because computers can't tell the difference.
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Very little is done based on computer analysis in Hollywood. Actors get audtions mostly based on their agents' efforts (which involve a lot more snake oil and graft than ones and zeros), or answering cattle calls - in person.
There's pictures of this woman in some of the stories. It isn't her looks that keep her from getting roles.